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Single by Jungkook featuring Latto | ||||
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Language | English | |||
Released | July 14, 2023 | |||
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Length | 3:05 | |||
Label | Big Hit | |||
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"Seven" on YouTube |
"Seven" is a song by South Korean singer Jungkook of BTS featuring American rapper Latto,released as a single on July 14,2023,through Big Hit Music. It was produced by Andrew Watt and Cirkut who co-wrote it with Jon Bellion,Latto,and Theron Makiel Thomas. The song is a romantic UK garage pop track about wanting to spend all of one's time with one's lover. An explicit version was also released,and later included on Jungkook's debut studio album Golden . [1]
The single entered music charts in over fifty territories and topped rankings in India,Latvia,Malaysia,and Singapore. It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and the Global 200,becoming both Jungkook and Latto's first number-one. It also topped Billboard 's Hits of the World charts in Hong Kong,Indonesia,Malaysia,Vietnam,South Korean,Philippines,and Taiwan.
"Seven" debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart and set a new record as the highest debuting single by a solo Korean act in history. Elsewhere,it charted in the top ten in Australia,Canada,Ireland,Japan,Lithuania,Peru,Paraguay,New Zealand,South Korea,and Switzerland. It also broke the record for the fastest song in history to surpass one billion streams on Spotify,and eventually became the most-streamed collaboration of 2023 on the platform. [2] [3]
Upon hearing “Seven,” I thought, “This is it.” After that, I focused on practicing and recording the track multiple times to perfect it. I hope that many people can feel as I felt when I first heard the song.
On June 29, 2023, Big Hit Music announced via Weverse that Jungkook's single "Seven" would be released on July 14, 2023. [5] Prior to the digital single's release, "Still with You" and "My You" were made available on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music on July 3, 2023. Both songs were previously only available on SoundCloud or YouTube. [6] On July 7, concept photos and a short film were released. This was followed by the official music video teaser on July 13. [7]
A progressive house dance remix by Swedish DJ Alesso was released on August 25, 2023, [8] while a second remix, by French DJ David Guetta, was released at the end of October. [9]
Described as an "invigorating summer song", "Seven" was produced by Andrew Watt and Cirkut, both of whom co-wrote it with Jon Bellion, Latto, and Theron Makiel Thomas. The song is in 4
4 common time in the key of B major with a tempo of 126 beats per minute and a vocal range that spans from F♯4 to D♯6 . [10] Musically, it is a pop [11] song of the UK garage genre with acoustic guitar sounds and a catchy melody. Lyrically, "Seven" is a romantic serenade about wanting to spend every moment of every day with one's lover. The explicit version's lyrics express a more sexual desire. [12] [13]
Writing for NME , Rhian Daly gave "Seven" a four star rating out of five, praising Jungkook's "polished mid-register and honeyed falsetto" and opining that the song "set the bar high for his solo era". [12]
Publication | List | Rank | Ref. |
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Billboard | The 100 Best Songs of 2023 | 55 | [14] |
Consequence | The 200 Best Songs of 2023 | 117 | [15] |
Rolling Stone | The 100 Best Songs of 2023 | 99 | [16] |
Uproxx | The Best Songs Of 2023 | Placed | [17] |
"Seven" debuted atop the daily Global Spotify Chart with almost 16 million streams, recording the most opening-day streams for a male artist and collaboration in history and the biggest debut in 2023. Jungkook became the first K-pop act to reach number one the U.S. Spotify chart and the first Korean solo artist to debut atop the global chart. [18] [19]
In Japan, with only three days of availability, "Seven" debuted at number two on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart issue dated July 19, 2023, for the period July 10–16. It was the most downloaded song of its release week, debuting at number one on the component Download Songs chart with 39,170 copies sold, more than double the sales of the number two song "Idol" by Yoasobi (18,434 downloads). [20] It also entered the component Streaming Songs chart at number 14 with 4,608,696 streams. [21] The single spent a second consecutive week at number two on the Hot 100 (chart dated July 26), and sold a further 12,656 units, as the fourth most downloaded song for the period dated July 17–23. It peaked at number two on the Streaming chart with 14,601,063 streams, three times more than its opening week total. [22]
The single debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, earning the highest debut for a solo Korean act in the history of the chart. Jungkook surpassed the record previously set by bandmate Jimin, who peaked at number eight with "Like Crazy" a few months earlier. He also tied with BTS for the highest Singles Chart debut and peak of all time; the band previously debuted at number three with "Dynamite" in 2020, and "Butter" and "My Universe" in 2021. [23]
According to Luminate, "Seven" received 5.11 million on-demand streams and sold over 34,000 digital copies on its opening day (July 14, 2023) in the United States. It continued to earn over 2.5 million streams daily over the next three days, accruing 13.7 million streams in its first four days of availability, and sold a further 32,000 digital copies within that time. [24] The single debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 issue dated July 29—the 68th number one debut in Billboard chart history—with 21.9 million streams, 6.4 million in airplay audience, and 153,000 combined digital [a] and CD singles sold from July 14 through July 20. It was the second best-selling digital song and fourth most-streamed song of its release week, additionally debuting at numbers 30 and 33 on the Adult Pop Airplay and Pop Airplay charts, respectively. "Seven" is Jungkook's first number one and top-10 entry on the Hot 100. He is the second member of BTS to achieve a number one after Jimin previously did so with "Like Crazy" in April. The single also became Latto's first number one on the chart; she previously peaked at number three with "Big Energy" in April 2022. Watt and Cirkut earned their tenth and second Hot 100 number one respectively as producers; ninth and fourth number one respectively as writers; while for Bellion and Thomas it was their second number one as writers and Latto's first. [25] Jungkook and Latto also achieved new peaks on the Artist 100, at numbers five and eleven respectively. [26] "Seven" ended the year as the seventh best-selling digital single of 2023 overall in the US, with 228,000 copies sold. [27]
"Seven" debuted atop the July 29 issue of the Billboard Global 200, with 269,000 downloads sold and 217.1 million streams accrued worldwide from July 14 through July 20, 2023, just surpassing Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" (the week of February 4, 2023) for the biggest week for a song by a solo artist since the chart's inception. It also earned the second biggest overall streaming week of all time, behind only "Butter" by BTS which earned 289.2 million streams for the week dated June 5, 2021. Jungkook became the first member of BTS to top the global chart as a solo artist while Latto also achieved her first number one on the ranking; she previously peaked at number 32 with "Big Energy" in April 2022. Both artists concurrently debuted atop the Global Excl. US chart, with 195.8 million streams and 131,000 downloads sold in territories outside of the U.S. for the same period, earning their first number one and highest peaks on the ranking; Jungkook previously peaked at number two with "Left and Right" in July 2022, while Latto peaked at number 117 with "Big Energy" in May 2022. [28] In its second consecutive week atop both Global charts (August 5 issue), "Seven" earned 152.1 and 138.1 million cumulative streams respectively, for the period dated July 21–29. [29] It spent a third consecutive week at number one on both charts (August 12 issue), with an additional 14,000 sales and 124.3 million streams earned globally, and 5,000 sales and 112.8 million streams accrued outside of the US, for the period dated July 28 to August 3. [30] "Seven" is the second song of 2023, after "Flowers", to debut at number one on both Global charts and spend its first four weeks (as of the August 19 issue date) atop both rankings—"Flowers" spent its first six weeks at number one. The song sold 4,000 copies in its fourth week (period dated August 4–10) and earned 111.7 million streams worldwide. It became the first song, since the Excl. US chart's inception, to achieve four consecutive weeks of over 100 million streams in territories outside of the US, earning 101.9 million streams and a further 3,000 sales for the same period. [31]
The song remained at number one on both Global charts (issues dated August 26, 2023) in its fifth week, with 104.3 million streams and 4,000 sales earned worldwide, and 95.1 million streams and 3,000 sales in territories outside of the US, during the period dated August 11–17, becoming the second song of 2023, after "Flowers", to spend its first five weeks atop both charts. [32] In its sixth week, "Seven" tied with "Flowers" as the only songs of the year to lead the Global rankings (September 2 issue) in their first six weeks. It accumulated 94.1 million streams and sold 2,000 copies worldwide during the period dated August 18–24, and earned 85.8 million streams and 2,000 sales outside of the US. [33] "Seven" surpassed "Flowers"' record the following week, becoming the first song of 2023 to top both Global charts (issues dated September 9) in its first seven weeks. It earned a further 97 million streams and 12,000 sales worldwide, and 88.2 million streams and 8,000 sales outside of the US, for the period dated August 25–31. [34] It spent an eighth consecutive week atop the Excl. US chart (September 16 issue) with 83.8 million streams and 3,000 sales for the period dated September 1–7, but was succeeded by Doja Cat's "Paint the Town Red" on the Global 200, charting at number two instead. [35] Altogether, "Seven" spent nine consecutive weeks at number one on the Excl. US chart, as of the issue dated September 16, with 77.7 million streams and 2,000 sales during the period dated September 8–14, while remaining at number two on the Global 200. [36]
In February 2024, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) published its annual top-10 charts for the previous year and listed "Seven" as the 10th best-selling digital single of 2023 globally, having amassed 1.24 billion subscription stream equivalents worldwide in less than six months. [37] [38]
Globally, "Seven" set two Guinness World Records: for the Most streamed track on Spotify in one week (male) [b] and Fastest time for a music track to reach 100 million streams on Spotify (male). [c] [39] By the end of October, it broke two additional records: Fastest time for a music track to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify (male)—previously held jointly by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber's "Stay" and Harry Styles' "As It Was" (118 days)—and overall—previously held by Cyrus' "Flowers" (112 days)—doing so in 109 days. [40] Domestically, the song won four consecutive Melon Popularity awards from July 24 to August 14, 2023, [41] and achieved triple crowns on M Countdown , Inkigayo , and Music Core , winning 13 first-place trophies altogether on domestic television music shows.
Per Billboard , "Seven" ranked as the number one Global Song of the Summer [d] from Memorial Day through Labor Day, based on sales and streaming activity compiled by Luminate for the Global 200 (chart issues dated June 10 through September 9). [42] The following week, it won the Song of Summer at the MTV Video Music Awards. [43] Later that month, "Seven" was nominated for Best Pop Video – International at the UK Music Video Awards, [44] and Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards. [45] It won International Song of the Year at the TikTok Awards Thailand in October, [46] followed by Top Global K-pop Song at the Billboard Music Awards. [47] In November, the song won Best Collaboration and Best Dance Performance – Male Solo at the MAMA Awards; it was additionally nominated for Best Music Video and Song of the Year but did not win. [48] "Seven" was awarded in the Millions Top 10 category [B] at the Melon Music Awards in December. [49]
"Seven" continued to be recognized at award ceremonies in 2024, winning the Digital Song (Bonsang) category at the Golden Disc Awards, [50] and the Global Streaming and Digital categories at the Circle Chart Music Awards, both in January. [51] It was also nominated in the Best Collaboration and Best K-pop categories, at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, in August. [52]
Program | Date | Ref. |
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Inkigayo | July 30, 2023 | [53] |
August 6, 2023 | [54] | |
August 13, 2023 | [55] | |
M Countdown | July 20, 2023 | [56] |
July 27, 2023 | [57] | |
August 3, 2023 | [58] | |
Music Bank | November 10, 2023 | [59] |
Music Core | August 5, 2023 | [60] |
August 26, 2023 | [61] | |
September 2, 2023 | [62] | |
September 9, 2023 | [63] | |
Show Champion | August 2, 2023 | [64] |
August 9, 2023 | [65] |
An accompanying music video, directed by Bradley & Pablo, [66] was released alongside the song and features South Korean actress Han So-hee as Jungkook's girlfriend. Chronicling an entire week (in reference to the song's lyrics), the video depicts Jungkook comedically attempting to win back Han's affection, often to her annoyance.
The video opens with Jungkook and Han arguing at a restaurant on Monday, during which an earthquake causes a chandelier to crash down from the ceiling onto a table and the walls to explode. [67] On Tuesday, he serenades her while hanging off the window of a train she is on then walks atop the train, following her as she switches cars. [68] On Wednesday, Jungkook tries to capture Han's attention at a flooding laundromat, to which she responds angrily. On Thursday, he is hit by a car while attempting to give her flowers. On Friday, Jungkook follows her during a rainstorm, which culminates with him being blown away by the wind. Latto appears during Jungkook's funeral on Saturday and performs her verse atop his coffin at one point before he suddenly resurrects and greets Han. On Sunday, Jungkook sings to her while on a suspended platform. At the end of the video, which returns to the rainstorm on Friday, Han eventually reaches for Jungkook's hand and the two walk away together in the rain. [68] [69] [70]
Jungkook performed "Seven" live for the first time on the day of its release, along with "Euphoria" and "Dynamite", in Central Park as part of Good Morning America 's Summer Concert series. [71] He appeared on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge segment on July 20 and performed the song in studio together with a cover of "Let There Be Love" by Oasis. [72] The follow day, he performed the single on The One Show , on an outdoor stage next to the Thames River in London. [73] Jungkook co-headlined the 2023 Global Citizen Festival on September 23 in New York City and performed "Seven" as part of his setlist, with Latto joining him onstage for the first time. [74]
His only domestic performance of the song was on the July 30, 2023, episode of Inkigayo . [75]
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Weekly charts | Monthly charts
Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Belgium (BEA) [168] | Gold | 20,000‡ |
Canada (Music Canada) [169] | 2× Platinum | 160,000‡ |
France (SNEP) [170] | Gold | 100,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI) [171] | Gold | 50,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [172] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
Portugal (AFP) [173] | Gold | 5,000‡ |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [174] | Gold | 30,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [175] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [176] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
Streaming | ||
Japan (RIAJ) [177] Clean version | Platinum | 100,000,000† |
Japan (RIAJ) [178] Explicit | Platinum | 100,000,000† |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Version | Label | Ref. |
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Various | July 14, 2023 | Original | Big Hit | [179] | |
United States | CD single | [180] | |||
Various | July 17, 2023 |
| Weekday EP | [181] | |
United States | July 18, 2023 | Contemporary hit radio | Original |
| [182] |
Various | July 21, 2023 |
| Weekend EP | Big Hit | [183] |
Italy | July 24, 2023 | Radio airplay | Original | Universal | [184] |
United States | August 25, 2023 | CD single |
| Big Hit | [185] [186] |
Various | August 25, 2023 |
| Alesso remix | [187] | |
October 30, 2023 | David Guetta remix | [188] |
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