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As his new mixtape D-2 is about to open at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart when Billboard refreshes its rankings tomorrow (the publication and chart company delayed its usual posting by a day as part of Blackout Tuesday), BTS member Suga, operating under his alter ego Agust D this time around, will also take over the Digital Song Sales ranking, which lists in order the bestselling individual cuts in the country every week.
The musician will debut 10 tracks inside the top 25, an impressive showing for any artist, let alone one who has never scored a major hit on his own and who performs in a language other than English.
Of those 10 new placements on the Digital Song Sales chart, two will debut inside the top 10, and those wins help him make history and separate himself from all other South Korean artists.
Leading the way among all of Sugas new hits is “Daechwita, which is about to debut at No. 2 with over 17,000 sales. It will come in behind only Lady Gaga and Ariana Grandes Rain on Me, which is slated to blast onto the ranking with more than 71,000 copies purchased. Further down the ranking, but still inside the uppermost area, will come Strange, a collaboration with fellow BTS member RM. That tune, which was bought by more than 7,600 fans, is going to launch at No. 10 on this weeks Digital Song Sales chart.
With two new top 10 hits on the ranking to his credit, Suga is about to become the first South Korean solo musician to reach the uppermost region on the Digital Song Sales chart more than once. Including his two future placements, he now counts a trio of wins, as he broke into the area late last year for the first time.
As a featured act on Halseys track Sugas Interlude (which was obviously named for him), he landed at No. 10 this past December. Oddly enough, the song credits both BTS as a group and Suga separately, so it counts toward both of their career totals.
Only a handful of South Korean musicians have entered the Digital Song Sales charts top 10just half a dozen have managed to do soand while most of them are soloists, the group that produced many of them, including Suga, has collected more wins than any other. BTS have now broken into the top 10 on the list 15 times, which means that Suga has garnered 18 such wins, as he is technically credited on all of the bands placements and of course on his own.
Suga Of BTS Is The First Korean Solo Musician To Score More Than One Top 10 Hit On The Sales Chart
