Psy’s “Gentleman” has reached the hot 100 on the Billboard Chart

 

On April 17, the Billboard Chart’s magazine, Billboard Biz, reported that “Gentleman,” the latest song by Psy (Park Jae Sang, 36), has entered the Hot 100 an the Billboard Chart at 12th place. Just two days after the song was released on the 13th of April, the number of streaming hits has reached 8.6 million, making the song the most streamed song.

 

This breaks the record of his previous hit song “Gangnam Style,” which reached 64th place at the time the song was released. This makes Psy the first Korean singer to get two songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

 

Since the release of the music video of “Gentleman” on April 13 at 9:00 p.m. (Korean time), the song has attracted over 128 million views on YouTube. Psy is the first to attract one hundred million in the shortest time. It appears that the power of “Gentleman” will continue for a while.

 

The sound source of “Gentleman” as well as the music video is gaining popularity globally. The sound source that has been released in 119 countries of the world and has ranked at the top on iTunes Top Singles Charts in 43 countries, including Argentina, Belgian, Chile, Finland, Greece, Macau, Russia, and Switzerland.