Thread by @dickjd21, Thread of Kim Jongdae, aka CHEN's achievements through all his career ✧･ﾟ: [...]

Thread of Kim Jongdae, aka CHEN's achievements through all his career
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note: if I'm missing anything, kindly dm me please.
Ps. originally i planned this as bday present for him and i hope I'll update this thread for many years from now on
#HAPPYCHENDAY
#VocalKingChenDay
#생일은김종대_신난건내광대

Let's start from the very 1st solo song of him, legendary rock single "Up-Rising"
When LP cd tracks were realised in k-platforms, Up-Rising placed in #9 spot in genie music, being 3rd solo song charting this high
considering fact that it was rock song, it's spot was impressing

While Up-Rising is concert special song which's full ver. we never got, he's actual first solo song and OST is "The Best Luck"
After being realised, it got #1 spots in olleh, genie, bugs and soribada, #2 in naver & cyworld, #3 in mnet, #4 in melon and #15 in ichart

Best Luck easily become one of the most famous osts and bring several wins for Jongdae.
It won best ost category in 2014 So-Loved Awards
Best ost male artist and Best ost in 2014 seoul international youth film festival
And made #9 in gaon chart with 638,264 sales

In YinYueTai Korean weekly chart Best Luck ranked at #4 spot from period 7/28-8/3
In Taiwan KKBOX weekly k-chart it remained in top100 for year and ranked at #21 after 47 weeks
Best Luck made it to Top 100 Melon Annual Charts and made Chen 6th idol to do so since 2006

It's safe to say that with Best Luck Chen got 1st recognition wave among korean gp and song itself become very popular among muggles. As for october of 2014 (after 4 months of osts realise) it was ranked at #18 spot for popular karaoke songs

Moving to 2015, it was year that large amount of Korean gp acknowledged his talent as a singer. From august 23th to 30th he performed in show called "The King of Masked singer" and from the 1st day immediately went up in search charts and trends

He won 3 consecutive rounds and lost at the very end. However, by netizens voting he was winning with 44% votes but lost in audience voting.
Before appearing on show, he was named in top7 vocalists by pd of this show
After being revealed as Chen he trended again

Later, with every airing of episode with him, his name trended in various sites
He was named as Mask king title challenger and placed as #1 among male idols who did best in this show.
Netizens comments praising his performances got +1285 upvotes in nate and +14823 in naver

He broke idol stereotype for many people and was praised continuously
Later he mentioned that his singing was bad at this show and covered "Drunken Truth" again, exactly 4 years later and u can compare them
cover in show:
late cover:

2015 was also 1st year when Jongdae played in musical. He was given lead role "Benny" in musical "In the Heights"
Later in 2017 author and compositor of musical, Lin Mannuel Miranda was spotted with phone case in which Jongdae's promo picture was painted

2016 started with another memorable event as Chen and Steve Barakatt collabed for special stage and performed in Unicef event. From Steve's words Chen reached him first and performed for this stage absolutely free. He covered song by John Lennon "Imagine"

Since then he was actively praised by knetz and Steve himself.
Later, on YuHiyeol's sketchbook Steve choosed Chen as most memorable collab and praised his skills despite he worked in korea since 1995 and had collabs with many big korean acts

In February Chen and Punch realised song called "Everytime" as ost for Descendants of the Sun.
Ost became extremely successful and remains as Chen's most popular ost. After realise it immediately got #1 in melon, genie, naver, mnet, olleh, #3 monkey, #5 bugs and #7 in soribada

The next day song got all kill status
It remained as #1 in melon weekly popularity award for 4 weeks straight
For first week gaon digital chart it was #1 i digital and download (168,581), #5 in bgm, #13 in streaming and #15 mobile category
In melon montly chart it was #3

At moment Everytime is 3rd most viewed korean ost in yt and 2nd in spotify
For august 2016 (after 6 months) it was 2nd in Itunes kpop top songs
After 16 weeks in charts, it surpassed 1 million downloads
In Gaon song has total 1.05 million of unique listeners for now

Some fun facts: in 2019 Jongdae attended 3 weddings and sang Everytime in all of them
Zhang Liyin, collab partner of Chen from "Breath", covered the song in her insta
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIO33U5hwLN/?igshid=18acgjv5i3jrx

in April 2016 Chen collabed with Heize for station song "Lil Something"
Song debuted at #1 in melon, genie, naver, olleh, mnet, bugs, #2 in soribada and #4 in monkey3
Lil Something had 3 roofhits in melon
Month after realise it was #3 most streamed station song

MV was 3rd most watched kpop mv for apr. 4 till 10, 2016
for 160417 inkigayo chart song was at #4 spot
And for 160422 in music bank chart it was at #9 spot
Overall Lil Something was Jongdae's second most successful station song in terms of stream, chart position and views

Chen and Suho collabed for chinese drama ost "Beautiful Accident"
Despite some chinese netizens being disgruntled about ost being sang by korean artists, song did quite well
It was at #4 in chinese billboard and #3 in yinyuetai weekly chart, and overall received good reviews

Ost for popular drama "Moon Lovers" sang by Chen, Baekhyun and Xiumin was one of the hit songs of summer 2016
It debuted at #1 in mnet, genie, naver, monkey3, #2 olleh, #3 melon, #6 bugs and #7 in soribada

It ranked at #2 in music bank ost chart
And #1 in taiwanese stream site KKBOX kpop chart
"For you" won best ost award at soompi 2016 awards by fans voting
At moment it's #8 most viewed korean ost in youtube

2017 started with another legendary collab song - Nosedive
Song got 829.915 uls in melon for 1st 24 hours and remained as song with most uls from sm male artist till "beautiful goodbye"
After realise it got #1 in melon, genie, olleh, mnet, bugs, soribada, monkey and #2 in naver

Nosedive, an unpromoted track, won 1st place in Inkigayo show and become Jongdae's 1st music show win
It also got 4 nominations in award shows and won 2 of them, "Best Collabration" in 2017 MAMA, and "Best Rap/Hip-Hop" award in mma 2017
Nosedive had 4 genie roofhits and 2 melon!

Also, in 2018 gaon award show, nosedive was 2nd most streamed song for january, being only 1 mln stream away from 1st place
After mama ceremony in 2017, k-exols got mad and streamed exo songs and as result, nosedive, 10 months old song went up 270 spots and placed at #3 in melon

Continuing with ost, Chen sang "I'm not okay" for drama "Missing 9"
Ost debuted at #1 in mnet and genie, #3 melon and olleh, and #4 in naver
Song peaked at #21 in gaon chart.

Chen already established himself as talented ost singer and received nickname "Trust to Listen Chen"

Chen was fan of 10cm for a long time and finally in 2017 they collabed for song called "Bye Babe"
Chen co-wroted lyrics together with 10cm and for unpromoted station song, it did quite well
After realise Bye Babe peaked at #2 in melon and #1 at genie
It got #28 in gaon chart

Surprisingly, 2018 had only 1 solo project and it was ost for tv series 100 Hundred Husband
Later it was revealed that Chen's co-member Kyungsoo requested him to sing this song. At 1st sm hesitated to give him song due it's genre but Chen resisted and wanted to challenge himself

Ost called "Cherry Blossom Love Song" was realesed during october when charts were full of digimons. Despite, ost did pretty good debuting in top50 in all charts, being #3 in melon daily ost chart and for 12 pm was in top10 in all charts
+ in hourly melon chart being #3

Also, CBLS broke mnet curse and was 1st male sm artist to climb up top5 in mnet chart in 2018, also in less than 2 weeks gained over 50k likes

As said before, Jongdae challenged himself with this song and it was beginning for his solo album preparations

2019 started with news about another ost - "Make It Count"
Ost was realised before drama started and despite that, it debuted in all charts expect mnet, but for next day climbed up and even peaked #1 in naver.
Debuted #4 in melon daily ost chart.
Lately it got nomination too

Note: Before i start with solo albums, i want to add some additional info
Years, 2016 station song and collab with dj Alesso, debut at charts:
Everytime hitted genie roof 2 times
In 2017 annual gaon digital chart jongdae had 2 songs in top100

Some facts rejecting that Chen is "least popular member"
Both ver. of exodus chen ver. are sold out in sm artium
In 2 days all staff with Chen for musical sold out
Albums and bracelets sold out.

2016 magazine "exoclusive" had individual covers and chen's was 4th most sold

2019 gave us most anticipated 1st solo album.
Despite being solo debut album did extremely great and outdid all expections.
Being realised on april's 1st title track - "Beautiful Goodbye" debuted in top50 in all charts, however quickly went up and later was #1 in 6/8 charts

For 24 hours BG gained 927.773 melon ULs and beat his previous record, 368.803 genie ULs and 1.023.270 genie streams.
Was #1 in 32 countries ITunes and overall in 56 countries
Hit melon roof 3, genie roof 1 time.
Sold 72k albums in hanteo chart in span of 30 hours

After album realise all 3 ver. charted in top3 in charts as synnara and hanteo
"April and A Flower" sold over 103k copies in 1st week and become most selled soloist since 2016 and 7th most selled album for 1st half of 2019
It peaked at #3 in world album chart as well

Chen peaked at #8 for global digital artist and #1 in melon weekly artist, he also won melon weekly popularity award for 6 times and surpassed 600 points in order to become bonsang candidate in mma award show. He was one of 2 artists who achieved both of these in 2019

Beautiful Goodbye debuted at #1 in chinese charts as QQ, Kuwo and KuGou. After day it sold over 750k rmb in qq music and received triple gold certification. After 3 days received platinum certification (1 mln rmb) and beat Love Shot's record

AAAF was #2 in WW ITunes Album chart and European Itunes Album chart, #38 in WW AppleMusic Album chart. It also peaked at #5 in USA ITunes.
BG was #30 in WW Itunes Song chart and charted in 29 countries. Also it peaked #2 in Korea BB kpop 100 chart

BG showed amazing longevity and till today never leave top100 melon and is best charted exo song, staying in top20 weekly chart for 5+ month (along with growl)
It surpassed 150k likes in melon and is only male soloist to do so
12th song in melon with most uls in 2019

BG surpassed 1.5 ULs in genie and surpassed exo's best result-kokobop with 1.4 mln.
It entered top200 most streamed songs in genie
Entire aaaf album surpassed 50mln streams in genie
Also entire albums was put in Korean air music category!

In terms of Gaon, BG is 2nd highest sm artist debut song in weekly gaon digital chart with 45.203.174 streams.
At moment it has over 450mln streams and it's highest exo song in terms of stream
BG is 5th male solo song with highest digital index
It peaked at #4 in gaon chart

Overall Beautiful Goodbye become sad korean men's new anthem, several times it had perfect 1:1 ratio, got covered by many other artists, Chen established himself as rookie digimon.
Lately when Shall We? was realised bg rejoined top30 in melon and even went up at #16 spot …

September's 28th Jongdae did his 1st ever solo live through vlive and the next day video was 1st in daily videos chart, also, exo's channel after long time was back in top5 channels

Only after 6 months, Chen did comeback with his 2nd mini album - Dear My Dear and title track - Shall We?
Previously Chen several times realised music during though competition in charts, but this time, it was insane but despite that song managed to debut in top15 in all charts

Eventually Shall We climbed up at charts and even competed with Akmu for #1 and at one moment almost catched up. Akmu are strongest digimons rn and the fact that Chen got this close with them despite all other digimons is very amazing and good result

DMD was #1 in 37 countries' iTunes, debuted at #1 in European iTunes Albums & WW iTunes Album charts (stayed there for 2 days)

Shall We was #17 in WW iTunes songs and #46 in European iTunes songs chart
Song debuted #1 in QQ music &received gold certification after 2 hours

DMD reached #7 in BB World albums (without any amazon links), #4 in united world album, #1 in gaon album chart, sold over 66k albums in 1st day and over 135k albums for 1st week and Chen became 3rd soloist with highest album sales
Chen ranked #1 in melon artist & male solo chart

So, that's all for now, and woud like to add these too.
Please, dm me if i forgot anything, our Chennie has so many achievements and i tried to collect them all but there's huge chance i missed something so if u know any, please let me know. Thank you

Jongdae has total of 19 roofhits as for now, 4 music show wins (3 as soloist) and 5 award show wins
We stan excellent, talented, succesful but humble and down-to-earth man. Very proud
Ps. thanks @daesnation for helping me with roofhit numbers

Just today Jongdae won in Show Champion with Shall We? and now he has 2 wins for each solo song and in total 4 wins in 2019 which makes him soloist with most music show wins in 2019.
Congratulations! #ShallWe2ndWin

https://twitter.com/luckyyou48/status/1186951855156256769/video/1

https://twitter.com/luckyyou48/status/1186951855156256769/video/1

Jongdae's spotify monthly listeners crossed 1 million and being 2nd exo member who achieved this

Chen's OST "Make It Count" won in Annual Fresh Asia Music Awards with impressing 99.29/100 points

It's already Jongdae's 6th win in award shows
https://twitter.com/ChenFollowUp/status/1190041910703996928?s=19

https://twitter.com/ChenFollowUp/status/1190041910703996928?s=19

And the 1st is Beautiful Goodbye https://twitter.com/ChenCharts/status/1191476007049613312?s=19

https://twitter.com/ChenCharts/status/1191476007049613312?s=19

I think, i need to add this one too. Him being recognized by vocal coach and his song considered as standart speak volumes about his success and talent. I really hope Jongdae sees this and can be proud of himself https://twitter.com/lunarkjd/status/1192111344813838337?s=19

https://twitter.com/lunarkjd/status/1192111344813838337?s=19

after being robbed in mma, depsite having all chances and rights to win bonsang, the next day, melon published list of solo artists with most songs charted in melon chart this year and Jongdae was 3rd with 13 songs and only one who debuted this year
ps. at moment it's 14 songs

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