Singer/songwriter Jon Bellion is presently taking in the success of Jung Kook‘s solo hit “Seven.” The track sits at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100, making Jung Kook the 2nd solo BTS participant to cover the graph after his bandmate Jimin’s “Like Crazy.”
But Bellion informs Billboard News in a brand-new meeting that he had no concept what the tune’s fate was mosting likely to be when he was creating it.
“l got a phone call from [record producer Andrew] Watt … this is probably two years ago. On a random Saturday, I kinda just took it into the studio myself and … kinda filled it out,” Bellion remembers. “It kind of in my mind fell by the wayside and was just like, ‘Oh, another song that you work on in a session.’ Like, ‘I really think it’s a great song, super catchy and can be really great for somebody.’”
He proceeded, “I think a lot had happened — I think [Hybe Corp. chairman] Bang and Scooter [Braun] linked up and they started operating and started to understand each other. I had no idea the gravity of Jung Kook being solo and it being fully English. I had no idea. I didn’t know what was brewing!”
While Bellion played a huge function in what the tune wound up coming to be, he thinks that the K-pop celebrity as well as Latto — that has a highlighted knowledgeable on the track — are truth reasons that the track has actually had such favorable function.
“Records, when they get to a certain place, it needs to be tailored and it needs to feel like it fit,” he claims. “The artists make it their song. We provide the bare bones and we provide the skeleton, but they need to make it believable, so I think that Latto came and crushed it.”
Watch Bellion’s complete meeting with Billboard News in the video clip over.
