Singer/songwriter Jon Bellion is at present absorbing the success of Jung Kook‘s solo hit “Seven.” The observe sits at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Scorching 100, making Jung Kook the second solo BTS member to prime the chart after his bandmate Jimin’s “Like Loopy.”
However Bellion tells Billboard Information in a brand new interview that he had no thought what the track’s future was going to be when he was writing it.
“l bought a cellphone name from [record producer Andrew] Watt … that is most likely two years in the past. On a random Saturday, I kinda simply took it into the studio myself and … kinda crammed it out,” Bellion recollects. “It sort of in my thoughts fell by the wayside and was similar to, ‘Oh, one other track that you just work on in a session.’ Like, ‘I actually suppose it’s an ideal track, tremendous catchy and could be actually nice for any individual.’”
He continued, “I feel so much had occurred — I feel [Hybe Corp. chairman] Bang and Scooter [Braun] linked up they usually began working and began to know one another. I had no thought the gravity of Jung Kook being solo and it being totally English. I had no thought. I didn’t know what was brewing!”
Whereas Bellion performed a big position in what the track ended up changing into, he believes that the Okay-pop star and Latto — who has a featured verse on the observe — are the true the explanation why the observe has had such optimistic reception.
“Information, once they get to a sure place, it must be tailor-made and it must really feel prefer it match,” he says. “The artists make it their track. We offer the naked bones and we offer the skeleton, however they should make it plausible, so I feel that Latto got here and crushed it.”
Watch Bellion’s full interview with Billboard Information within the video above.
