BTS V’s solo song ‘Slow Dancing’ has proven its global popularity by surpassing 500 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music platform.With this, V now has the third song to reach 500 million streams, following ‘LOVE ME AGAIN’ and ‘FRI(END)S’.

‘Love Me Again’ reached 1 billion streams on December 14, 2024, joining the ‘Billions Club’, and V’s first solo album ‘Layover’, which includes a total of 6 songs including 2 songs, has recorded 2.3 billion cumulative streams to date.
The title song ‘Slow Dancing’ debuted at number 51 on Billboard’s main single chart, the ‘Hot 100’, and number 3 on the ‘Global(excluding the US)’ chart and number 4 on the ‘Global 200’ chart.It also showed a strong presence in the European market by entering at number 1 on the ‘Single Downloads’ and ‘Single Sales’ categories of UK Official Chart.



Since its release, the album ‘LAYOVER’ has received praise from major global music media outlets such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Time Out.Billboard ranked ‘LAYOVER’ as the second best K-pop album of 2023 ‘and especially praised the unconventional flute solo in the latter half of’ Slow Dancing ‘as “a symbolic device that reveals V’s musical vision and originality.”

British culture magazine ‘TimeOut’ selected ‘Layover’ as the 19th best K-pop album on its list of ‘30 Best Albums of 2023’.’Slow Dancing’ was selected as a highly recommended track with favorable reviews, saying, “It’s a soulful track that flows beautifully in harmony with the song’s choreography.”

As an artist with both musicality and popularity, V is further solidifying his unrivaled position on the global stage.The 500 million streams of ‘Slow Dancing’ is another symbolic milestone in V’s musical journey.


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