‘Preview Syndrome’ J-Hope is capable of it.

Before the fever for his comeback song ‘Sweet Dreams’ had even died down, J-Hope is showing ‘merciless’ runaway mode with his follow-up song ‘Mona Lisa’.

J-Hope‘s new song ‘Mona Lisa’, released on the 21st (Korean time), is quickly taking over various global popularity charts. iTunes, the representative platform for popular music around the world, is a representative example. ‘Mona Lisa’ (MONA LISA)’ ranked #1 on iTunes ‘Top Song’ charts in 67 countries and regions, including France and Japan, starting from the morning of the 22nd, the day after the release. As a result, ‘Mona Lisa’ also topped the ‘World Wide iTunes Songs’, which is also a global integrated chart.

J-Hope’s previously released comeback song ‘Sweet Dreams’ is showing off its potential as a mega hit song by entering the ‘Weekly Top Songs Global’ Top 100 on Spotify, another global pop music platform. Following ‘Sweet Dreams’, ‘Mona Lisa’, J-Hope recently garnered attention by hinting that “one more song is waiting”.

Along with the new song release relay, J-Hope is in the midst of a virtual nationwide tour, ‘HOPE ON THE STAGE’, covering almost all of North America. The concert, which started at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on the 13th and 14th, moved to the Allstate Arena in Chicago on the 17th and 18th.
As if reflecting the long-awaited reunion due to the so-called ‘Gunbaekgi’, the concert is continuing the ‘sold-out case’ with even limited seats being opened.


The Barclays Center in New York, which had over 38,000 attendees over the two-day concert, produced outdoor advertisements to commemorate the ‘10,000 won case’, and at the Chicago concert, a so-called ‘custom flag’ with J-Hope‘s image printed on the American flag attracted attention.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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