"Chicken Noodle Soup" is a song by South Korean rapper

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featuring American singer

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. It was released through

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on September 27, 2019. The song samples DJ Webstar and rapper Young B's song of the same name, featuring the Voice of Harlem from Webstar's 2006 album '' Webstar Presents: Caught in the Web''.

Background

expressed in a

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stream that the original "

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" by Webstar and Young B was meaningful to him because he often listened to it when he first began learning to dance. J-Hope wanted his version of "Chicken Noodle Soup" to be featured on his debut mixtape ''

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'' as the track represented his passion for dance. He also wanted the track to feature another artist; but as a collaboration failed to occur, the track was not released in 2018. J-Hope and

met at the 2019 ''Billboard'' Music Awards in May, with J-Hope previously saying that he would like to collaborate with her. Becky G and J-Hope contributed to writing the trilingual lyrics, which center around one's identity and paying respect to their roots.

Release

released the song on September 27, 2019, during

' hiatus period. It was released for free on multiple platforms, and a download link of the mp3 file was provided on Big Hit's

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account. Following the release of the music video, both Young B. and

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voiced their enthusiasm for the "Chicken Noodle Soup" remake separately on social media. J-Hope also issued an Internet dance challenge, encouraging his fans to try the choreography. He posted a video of himself doing the dance on BTS' official

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, and filmed fellow BTS groupmates Jungkook, Jimin and V dancing to the song on

Commercial performance

"Chicken Noodle Soup" debuted at number 81 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, with 9.7 million streams and 11,000 downloads for the week ending October 4. J-Hope became the first member of BTS to chart on the Hot 100 as a solo artist outside of the group, the third Korean solo artist to rank on the chart (after Psy and CL), and the sixth Korean artist overall to do so. "Chicken Noodle Soup" also debuted at number one on the

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chart and is his second song to do so after 2018's "Daydream".

Music video

The music video was directed by Yongseok Choi of

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, and co-produced by Nathan Scherrer. It was shot in

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and features over 50 dancers of different nationalities. The video incorporates dance moves from the original "

" dance, as well as new choreography that includes flapping elbows with bent legs to mimic a chicken. The video ends with an informal clip of the dance crew singing and dancing. This addition was requested by J-Hope with the intention of capturing the positive energy on the day of the film shoot.

Promotion

After Becky G

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"#BeckyHasAnotherSecret", BTS tweeted at her saying "I have a secret too..." with the hashtag "#CNS" on September 26.

Credits and personnel

Adapted from

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. * Jinbo – production, songwriting, keyboard, synthesizer, rhythm programming, background vocals * Supreme Boi – production, songwriting, keyboard, rhythm programming, background vocals * Pdogg – production, songwriting, synthesizer, rhythm programming, * Adora – songwriting, background vocals * J-Hope – songwriting * Brasa – songwriting * Becky G – songwriting, background vocals * Jamal Reynolds – songwriting * Bianca Dupree – songwriting * Desmond "Troy" Ryan – songwriting * Anthony Glover – songwriting * Jaycen Joshua – mixing (at

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, North Hollywood, California) * Jacob Richards – mixing (assistant) * Mike Seaberg – mixing (assistant) * DJ Riggins – mixing (assistant) * Chris Gehringer – mastering (at

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, New York)

Charts

References

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