BTS V's 'Winter Ahead' crosses 700M Spotify streams — his second solo track to hit the mark
'Winter Ahead (with Park Hyoshin)' hit 700M Spotify streams in Nov 2024, joining V's 'Love Me Again' in rare territory.
BTS V's collaboration with Park Hyoshin, Winter Ahead (with Park Hyoshin), crossed 700 million streams on Spotify. V now has two solo tracks above that threshold — Love Me Again is the other.
Released November 29, 2024, the song charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 without any promotional campaign. V was still completing his military service. On debut it landed at No. 1 on Spotify's Holiday Digital Song Sales chart and No. 62 on the Holiday Top 100. The UK Official Charts Single Downloads chart ranked it No. 1, with No. 2 on Single Sales.
That Holiday Top 100 placement made V the first K-pop artist to place three songs on that chart simultaneously. Christmas Tree, White Christmas, and Winter Ahead all appeared together. All three have since hit No. 1 on the Holiday Digital Song Sales chart.
Billboard named Winter Ahead one of "The 27 Best Winter Songs for the Season" for 2025 year-end and ranked it No. 1 on its "Fans' Favorite Songs of 2024" list. YouTube Music grouped it with Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You and Justin Bieber's Mistletoe in its year-end global holiday classics selection.
The music video was filmed at a mansion in the Paris suburbs and in the Versailles area. (Fans took that location seriously enough to install a bench engraved with V's name in the Trianon Garden of the Palace of Versailles.)
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