The presence of Jungkook BTS on the opening stage of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar made his name more global. Even now Jungkook’s nickname alias, ‘Kookie’, had become a trend on Twitter on Sunday (11/27/2022). How come?
It turned out that this started from an interview session attended by the CEO of Katara Studios, one of the organizers of the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, Ahmed Al Baker. In the interview, the reporter revealed the name ‘Kookie’ which is the affectionate nickname of ARMY, as BTS fans are called, to Jungkook.
“Jungkook from BTS.. As far as I know, fans also call him Kookie,” said the reporter.
Interestingly, the reporter then asked questions using the term ‘Kookies’ to describe other BTS members.
“Why did you only bring Kookie (Jungkook) and not bring other Kookies?” the reporter asked.
“Because the other Kookies have military service,” replied Ahmed Al Baker.
Dreamers Reaches 600M Streams on Spotify
Through the song ‘Dreamers’ which was released through the Federation Internationale de Football (FIFA) on Sunday (11/20/2022), Jungkook BTS has also made his name as the fastest Korean soloist to surpass 600 million streams on Spotify cumulatively as of November 26, 2022. .
Jungkook’s top three songs on Spotify are ‘Left and Right’ with Charlie Puth with more than 392 million streams, ‘Dreamers’ with more than 24 million streams, and ‘Stay Alive’ which reaches more than 168 million streams.
Besides, ‘Dreamers’ was also recorded as the Longest-Charting Song No. 1 of a K-Pop soloist on iTunes Worldwide for six days, breaking Jungkook’s previous record through the song ‘Stay Alive’.
