On January 4, a topic titled “Top 25 K-pop Artists in terms of cumulative streams on overseas music charts” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo”, garnering attention.
According to this topic, the full ranking is as follows:
- BTS – 72.1 Billion streams
- BLACKPINK – 22.7 Billion streams
- TWICE – 17.3 Billion streams
- Stray Kids – 14.8 Billion streams
- SEVENTEEN – 12.3 Billion streams
- NewJeans – 9.2 Billion streams
- TXT – 8.1 Billion streams
- EXO – 8.0 Billion streams
- Jungkook – 8.0 Billion streams
- Red Velvet – 7.8 Billion streams
- (G)I-DLE – 7.5 Billion streams
- IU – 7.2 Billion streams
- ITZY – 6.0 Billion streams
- NCT Dream – 5.8 Billion streams
- ENHYPEN – 5.6 Billion streams
- Jimin – 5.1 Billion streams
- aespa – 4.9 Billion streams
- BIGBANG – 4.8 Billion streams
- IVE – 4.8 Billion streams
- LE SSERAFIM – 4.8 Billion streams
- ATEEZ – 3.9 Billion streams
- V – 3.9 Billion streams
- Taeyeon – 3.6 Billion streams
- MAMAMOO – 3.6 Billion streams
- MONSTA X – 3.3 Billion streams
The data in this chart is said to be compiled from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube Music,Anghami, Gaana, Joox, JioSaavn, Boomplay, and more.
Reacting to the list, many netizens express admiration towards BTS, who has a huge gap, and BLACKPINK, whose number of songs is low. NewJeans., despite being a rookie, also ranked impressively high.
However, many question the absence of NCT 127.
Below are some comments from netizens:
- BTS 72.1 Billion streams and 6th artist overall on the globe??? This is so huge
- The fact that NewJeans is already on the list is impressive
- BLACKPINK only has a few song, but their streams tell a different story…
- Huh, why is there no NCT 127?
- BTS is next level, but NewJeans is doing amazing.
Source: theqoo
