BTS star Jung Kook's GOLDEN is highest-charting album by a Korean solo artist ever

BTS star Jung Kook makes UK Official Chart history today as he claims the highest-charting album by a Korean solo artist ever with GOLDEN.

The debut LP from the K-pop juggernaut's main vocalist, born Jeon Jung-kook, enters the Official Albums Chart at Number 3. The latest feat in what's proven an incredible year for Jung Kook, this follows the success of recent singles Seven featuring Latto (3), 3D with Jack Harlow (5) and The Kid Laroi and Central Cee team-up TOO MUCH (10).

Latest cut Standing Next to You looks set to join Jung Kook's Top 10 singles tally today, too. Should it do so, it'll extend Jung Kook's record as the Korean artist with the most UK Top 10 singles to their name, potentially boasting four within four months.

In 2020, Jung Kook's BTS bandmate SUGA (real name Min Yoon-gi) claimed the group's first solo Top 10 album with D-2, released under his Agust D moniker. The record peaked at Number 7 in June of that year.

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As a member of BTS alongside SUGA, V, Jimin, Jin, RM and j-hope, Jung Kook has scored five UK Top 10 albums, including two chart-topping LPs.

The group have seen Top 10 success with 2018's Love Yourself: Tear (8), 2019's Map of the Soul: Persona (1), 2020 release Map of the Soul: 7 (1), 2020's BE (2) and 2022 LP PROOF (8).

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Jung Kook could soon match BTS's tally of Top 10 singles as a group, too; the band currently boasting four: 2020's Dynamite (3) and Life Goes On (10), 2021 single Butter (3), 2021 Coldplay collaboration My Universe (3) and 

See the Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full here from 5.45pm.