Jin's debut single, 'The Astronaut,' became a sensation around the globe. It became a record-breaking song, and Jin's success is yet to be surpassed among K-pop soloists. Here are some of his major achievements:

• Jin is the fastest million-seller soloist in Gaon history and the only one to do so with a single album
• Biggest Spotify counter debut for a Korean Solo song (5.6M)
• Fastest Korean solo song to reach 10M-80M streams on Spotify
• Biggest debut for a Korean solo song on South Korea Spotify
• The fastest song by a K-pop act to reach #1 on US iTunes (1h 23m)
• Highest debut for a K-pop Solo song on Billboard Hot 100 since PSY
• Jin has the highest first appearance on Billboard Hot100 for any K-pop act
• Jin is the first Korean male solo act to debut his song on both Billboard Global 200 and Global Exc. US Top 10 as a lead artist
• Jin has the highest sales debut by a K-pop Solo Act on Billboard Global (62k)
• Jin has the highest sales on US digital for any Kpop Solo act (44k), and the highest sales for any Korean Song in 2022, surpassing his own group BTS (Yet to Come - 42k)
• Jin is the fastest K-pop soloist to reach 100k units sold in the US with a solo song
• The longest charting song by a K-pop solo act on Billboard US Digital Song Sales Chart 
• Top3 biggest first week streams among all K-pop solo albums released in 2022 with just one track
• The longest #1 charting song by any K-pop solo act on Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart (3 weeks)
• The highest charting Korean solo song on UK Official Singles Chart ever, and New Zealand Hot 40 this decade
• The highest-peaking Korean Solo song on Billboard Japan Hot 100 in history (#4)
• The highest sales for any Korean solo song on the Oricon Daily Singles chart in history (104k+)
• The fastest song by any Korean Solo act to surpass 1M likes on Youtube, and the second fastest to cross 1M views on Youtube
• The longest charting video on the Music Category Youtube Worldwide Trending Chart in history among all artists (17 days)
• The fastest song by any K-pop soloist to reach 1M shazams
• The longest charting solo song by a K-pop male soloist on Spotify's Global chart
• First soloist to get the 1,000,000 Circle (Gaon) & KMCA Certification for a Single Album
• 7th K-pop artist in history to get the Golden Disk Certification by RIA Japan
• First Asian artist to spend 2 weeks at #1 on Hungary's Singles chart
• The highest K-pop soloist on the Best Songs of 2022 Top100 by the Rolling Stone
• In the Top5 biggest weekly sales in the USA among all releases in 2022

Jin is already nominated in three categories at the 32nd Seoul Music Awards and for the Global Artist award at the Hanteo Music Awards. 

Today, on December 17, the nominations for the 12th Circle (Gaon) Chart Music Awards were announced. Jin is the only soloist to be nominated in the Artist of The Year - Album Physicals (4Q) category! He is also nominated for the Artist of The Year - Global Digital (October). The ceremony will be held on February 18 at the KSPO Dome.

Jin is up against full-length albums with just one single due to how strong his physical and digital sales are. He is the 2nd best-selling K-pop soloist in history on Circle (Gaon). He also holds the record of having the highest digital sales globally. There will be no voting for these categories. Congratulations!