INDIGO: ABOUT THE ALBUM AND ITS ACHIEVEMENTS.

Chapter 1 of BTS included their activities as a group, where several albums were produced and a few members dropped their own albums. Chapter 2 of BTS was announced during the 2022 festa that came out 5 months ago in which the members talked about working on producing solo albums and resuming group activities in a few years.

Over the last few months a few members have released their photofolio and J hope and RM have dropped their individual albums. Kim Namjoon’s album is titled Indigo. The album focuses on showing different shades of Kim Namjoon as a human, and consists of collaborations with various artists including Erykah Badoula and Anderson Paak.

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On 10th November, Namjoon dropped the name of his album titled “Indigo” and called it the last archive of his twenties. Basically Indigo is a compilation of the emotions, the raw feelings and the experiences of Namjoon from 2019. On 22nd November,Namjoon released an “Indigo identity film” that gave us a short meaning of what Indigo meant to Namjoon. He said “from the colours of Nature, Human, etc. Documentation of my youth in the moment of Independent phase. Sun-bleached record faded like old jeans”.

On 24th November, Namjoon dropped the tracklist for Indigo. The album includes 10 tracks of various genres like pop, rock , hip hop and R&B. The song titles show that he’s expressed his emotions about various sides of himself like loneliness, sadness, and regarding his love for art.

As you can see above, each tracklist has its own waveform. Namjoon said “the company suggested the idea that we could try going for putting the waveforms of the tracks on the tracklist when it comes out.. I wanted to show it how the songs form out the waves and what it looks like to you guys, so we went with that” in his weverse Live.

Indigo is a diary of a 29 year old man named Kim Namjoon who tells us a story of his late twenties in the form of ten tracks which cover various emotions and raw feelings. In the Indigo album magazine film Namjoon expressed the feeling of how he felt like it was the first time he felt like he was doing something all by himself while making Indigo.

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Note : Indigo has completed 4 weeks of release and the achievements will be updated regularly.

Biggest debut for an album by Korean soloist in Spotify history.

Biggest album debut by a soloist in Korea’s Spotify history

All songs debut in top 100 of Global Spotify Chart

Highest debut+ charting Asian Soloist in history on Spotify Daily top artist Global at #7

First Korean soloist and second Korean act to Chart higher than BTS on Spotify top artist Global Chart.

Highest peaking Korean soloist on Spotify daily top artist US Charts at #31

Highest entry by Korean soloist on Spotify weekly top album USA charts #17

Highest debut by Korean soloist on Spotify artist chart in 46 countries

Highest charting Korean soloist on Spotify Pakistan artist chart at #3

Wild flower debuts in 49 countries on Spotify charts

Reached #1 on Melon top Artist Chart

Second male Soloist to have all tracks simultaneously chart on Melon top 100

6 songs on top 20 of Billboard Hot Trending songs .

Indigo debuts #1 on Oricon’s weekly Digital album ranking in just three days.

Highest charting Korean soloist in history on Billboard 200 at #3

Highest album debut on Billboard 200 by Korean Soloist in 2022

Debuts at #1 on Billboard world albums chart

Debuts at #10 on Billboard US top albums chart

First Korean act to have multiple entries on US top album charts

First Korean soloist to debut two albums in top 30 of Billboard 200

Peaked at #8 on Billboard Artist 100 chart

Wildflower debuts at #1 on Digital song sales Chart

Wildflower debuts at #83 on Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Wildflower debuts at #35 on Billboard global 200 Chart

Second highest charting album by Korean Soloist on Apple music UK.

First asian Soloist to chart an album and title track at #1 on iTunes in the 8 biggest music markets.

Second Korean soloist to enter Top 10 of apple music UK top albums.

Fastest album by a Korean soloist to sell over 100000 total units in the US.

Highest score for an album by Korean soloist in metacritic history at 89.

First album by Korean Soloist to chart multiple weeks at #1 on Billboard World Album Chart this decade.

First Korean act to occupy top 3 at the weekly Billboard Hot Trending songs.

First Korean act to have four songs charting on the top 10 of Billboard hot trending songs .

Soloist with most top 5 hits on world digital song sales Chart (12)

First Korean act to debut at #1 on Billboard R&B digital song sales Chart

Fourth Korean soloist to simultaneously occupy top 3 of world digital song sales Chart

Fourth Korean act to debut #1 on Billboard rap digital song sales Chart for still life.

Second Korean act to debut all songs from an album on Canadian digital song sales Chart.

Third highest charting Asian Soloist on Austria top albums chart

Highest charting Asian Soloist on the Belgium album chart.

First asian Soloist in history to enter Top 10 of Belgium’s Wallonia albums chart at #8

Highest Korean soloist to chart in Denmark’s top 40 albums chart (#25)

Second soloist in history to enter Germany’s album chart with a Korean album.

Korean soloist with most entries in Italy’s album chart.

Highest charting Asian Soloist and seventh asian act on Italy’s album chart.

First asian Soloist with multiple album entries on Lithuania’s album charts.

Second highest Korean soloist on Lithuania’s top album chart.

Second asian Soloist to have two albums spent multiple weeks on Netherlands album chart.

First Korean soloist with most entries on Swedish album chart

Fifth highest asian Soloist to chart on Swiss albums chart .

Wildflower debuts #1 on YouTube global music video chart.

First Korean act to debut all songs from an album at the same time on Billboard’s Vietnam hot chart.

First asian act in history to debut all songs from an album on Paraguay’s weekly Streaming singles chart.

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Indigo became a major hit across all streaming platforms and got lots of reviews from musicians and magazines . Along with that , a lot of news platforms have also discussed the impact indigo has had in the music world. Let’s check out some of them!

Note : I wasn’t able to get most of the news videos on yt, hence I’ve attached the video links that were posted by ARMYs on twitter .

Yonhap News: BTS RM ‘Indigo’ re-peak to 3rd place on Billboard 200. Best Record by a Korean solo artist

BTS RM’s “Indigo” re-peak, ranking third on the Billboard main album chart “Billboard 200.”
As a result, RM became the first BTS member to have the top 10 albums on “Billboard 200” and was ranked highest record as a Korean solo artist.

SOURCE:

https://twitter.com/rmnewsdata/status/1608111548698095616/video/1

https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221227002000315?input=tw

‘Indigo’ has been ranked #1 best k-pop album of 2022.

SBS NEWS: RM re-peak to No. 3 on Billboard chart. K-pop solo record.

BTS RM’s first solo album ‘Indigo’ reached No. 3 on the US Billboard main album chart. It is the highest record among K-pop solo artists.

SOURCE :

https://twitter.com/rmnewsdata/status/1608179204927160322/video/1

Arirang news : BTS RM’s album ‘Indigo’ hits No.3 on Billboard 200 Chart, best record for Korean solo artist.

SOURCE:

https://twitter.com/arirangtvnews/status/1607604951492198401/video/1

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Namjoon’s works have always involved immense knowledge, great lyricism and beautiful meanings. These meanings have further been appreciated and loved in various magazines . Let’s explore some of them .

Three songs namely wildflower, still life and change Pt.2 from indigo along with sexy nukim have been ranked on Teen Vogue’s international magazines list of “79 best k-songs of 2022” based on the opinion of 79 journalists.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/best-k-pop-songs-2022

Still life , a song from indigo featuring Anderson Paak was ranked on US digital Elite Daily list of best k-pop music videos of 2022 and was named the most introspective video.

Source: https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/best-k-pop-music-videos-2022

Indigo is ranked #3 on rolling stone India’s list of “15 best Korean R&B hip hop albums of 2022” source: https://rollingstoneindia.com/the-15-best-korean-hip-hop-and-rb-albums-of-2022/

Indigo was ranked #2 and wildflower was ranked #3 in consequence’s 2022 annual best albums and songs report based on the results of 2022 readers poll

TIME magazine ranked indigo as one of the 5 best albums released in 2022.

Source : https://time.com/6240691/best-kpop-2022/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=entertainment_music&linkId=193537127

Indigo song YUN was ranked 10th on paper magazine’s list of best k-pop side songs of 2022.

Source: https://www.papermag.com/best-kpop-bsides-2022-2659016419.html

Wildflower was included in the December hashtags in Korea playlist of songs selected by editors of rolling stone Korea and melon.

Indigo song closer with Mahalia and Paul Blanco and sexy nukim with Balming tiger were ranked on the list of best collaboration released in 2022 by Bandwagon Asia.

Note : the records and achievements were taken from various chart accounts on twitter and the magazine articles were referred to from @ArabRM_Support1 on twitter.

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Kim Namjoon is not only the best artist but also a beautiful human and one of the best songwriters in the music industry. RM now has 210 credits on KOMCA after the release of Indigo.

RM remains as the youngest, most credited artist.

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