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On July 5, 2024, BTS Jimin's latest release, Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. LOCO), recorded the highest debut on Spotify's US Weekly Top Songs Chart. He became the first Korean act to achieve this feat in 2024. The song was released on June 28, and as of July 3, it peaked at No. 24. Furthermore, the song has been charting steadily on the music chart.
The song fronts the musician's forthcoming solo album, MUSE. The album is set to be released on July 19, along with the official music video for the title track, WHO. The album contains seven tracks, including the pre-release single Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. LOCO).
The latest song by Jimin has amassed over 4,257,042 streams on Spotify on July 3. The song has gained over 37.5 million streams on Spotify since its release, maintaining an average of 722,966 daily streams. Notably, the track dropped to No. 36 on July 5 after peaking at No. 24 on July 3—the highest position held by a Korean act so far this year.
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BTS Jimin's Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. LOCO) maintains its streaks of achievements
Billboard reported that the track was inspired by the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The album won four Grammy awards in 1968 and spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States.
During his Vogue interview last year, Jimin mentioned how the British band had inspired him as a musician. He was also seen visiting a record store in New York City ahead of his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to buy a few vinyl records of The Beatles' albums.
Meanwhile, in Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. LOCO), the BTS idol loosely gave an ode to The Beatles by recreating psychedelic imagery set for the official video and infusing marching band beat drops in his song.
The song shot to #1 on the US iTunes chart on its debut day in 3 hours, 55 minutes—making it the fastest song to reach No. 1 in 2024. Additionally, the song topped the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart and the European iTunes Song Chart across 111 countries as of June 29, 2024.
Furthermore, in the behind-the-scenes video of Smeraldo Garden Marching Band released on BANGTANTV (YouTube), the BTS lead vocalist shared that it was the first song he worked on for MUSE. Jimin added that he wanted to capture and share the happy and hopeful times when he visited New York with his fans.
BTS' Park Jimin has been serving in the South Korean military since December 12, 2024, and will return in June 2025. As per South Korea's law, every able-bodied male citizen between 18 and 28 is required to serve a mandatory period of 18 to 21 months in the military (Army, Marines, and Air Force). For K-pop idols, the age limit was extended to 30 for their enlistment.
