On September 20, Jackson Wang released Thank You, his first release since
signing with Roc Nation.

Less than two weeks later, the song has already racked up hundreds of thousands of streams, landed several iTunes #1s and passed 4 million views on YouTube.

But looking at the results country by country, one thing stands out: Asia is highly visible. Europe, much less so.

So let's look at the numbers.

#### Thank You by the numbers

As of October 3, 2026, Thank You has over 874,000 streams on Spotify.

The official music video, co-directed by Jackson Wang and Ojun Kwon, has passed 4.2 million views on YouTube.

On the Worldwide iTunes chart, the song entered at \#76 on September 21, then reached its peak of \#68 the following day.

The national charts are where it gets interesting. Among the best positions we were able to verify:

An important note: these are iTunes charts, meaning paid downloads, not Spotify charts. Different platforms don't necessarily tell the same story.

#### And in China?

China calls for a different reading, since the main music platforms aren't the same as in Europe or North America.

Thank You appeared on the NetEase Cloud Music and Tencent Music charts. On NetEase, it reached \#2 on the New Song Chart at launch, with more than 10,000 "hearts" on day one. On Apple Music, it reached \#13 on the Shanghai City Chart on September 26.

This data is harder to compare with Western charts, but it confirms that the song got strong visibility in the Chinese market.

#### Spotify: a different story

On Spotify, the picture is different. With over 874,000 streams after almost two weeks, Thank You has not appeared in the Global Top 200, based on our checks.

That doesn't mean nobody is listening. It simply means its daily stream count wasn't high enough to enter this very competitive chart.

Spotify did support the release editorially, placing the song on New Music Friday playlists in nine Asian markets: the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea. Again, a playlist placement is not a national chart position.

#### And what about Europe? 🇪🇺

This is where it gets especially interesting for us. As a European fanbase, these numbers can be a little frustrating.

Of course there are Jackson fans in Europe. We see them every day. But in the charts, this audience is much harder to spot.

Part of the problem is how the European market works: there's no single big Spotify chart that groups all European streams as if they came from one market. French fans add to the French numbers, German fans to the German numbers, Italian fans to the Italian numbers, Swiss fans to the Swiss numbers, and so on.

An audience can therefore be large across the continent, yet too scattered to reach the entry thresholds of each national chart.

That alone doesn't explain why Thank You is absent from the European charts we checked. After all, relatively small markets like Singapore or Hong Kong placed the song very high on iTunes. But this fragmentation makes it harder to gauge the real size of a European fanbase from national charts alone.

#### This isn't specific to Thank You

To see whether this was unique to the new single, we looked at Jackson's previous albums. Magic Man 2 is a good example.

In the US, it reached \#13 on the Billboard 200. In the UK, however, it didn't enter the main Official Albums Chart. It did reach:

And on the UK album downloads chart, Magic Man 2 actually did better than Magic Man: #23 in 2025, versus #40 in 2022.

So the numbers don't let us conclude that Jackson lost his European audience between the two albums. They show something more complex.

#### Having an audience and showing up in the charts are not the same thing

Charts measure something, but not everything. They depend on the platform, the country, the number of streams or purchases in a given period, the size of the market and each chart's own rules.

An iTunes #1 and an absence from the Spotify Top 200 can perfectly well concern the same song at the same moment. And a fanbase spread across a dozen countries is far less visible in the charts than an audience of the same size concentrated in a single market.

Does Jackson really have a smaller audience in Europe than in Asia? Maybe. Or is his European audience simply much harder to see when you look at charts country by country? Maybe that too. The data we have today can't settle this seriously.

But it does let us ask a different question: how many fans become invisible when we only look at the charts?

For a European fanbase like ours, that's probably the most interesting question of all.

Data checked on October 3, 2026. Spotify and YouTube counters keep moving after publication.

Sources: Spotify/MyStreamCount, YouTube, Worldwide iTunes/Kworb, Apple Music City Charts, NetEase Cloud Music, Tencent Music, UK Official Charts.

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