As one of the most widely used online music streaming applications, Spotify and its data provides insight into which artists and songs are popular on a global scale. Among them, Kpop artists are taking over the platform and achieving notable accomplishments.
In particular, compared to previous years, 2023 marks the “globalization” of Kpop, with many new groups making their way onto Spotify’s charts. Accordingly, Spotify’s “monthly listeners” becomes an important metric, seeing that unlike the number of followers that tend to remain stable over time, monthly listeners are continuously updated to gauge the audience’s music preferences.
As a result, a topic titled “These are Kpop groups with the highest number of monthly listeners on Spotify” has been gaining attention on the Korean forum Instiz.
In particular, the topic cited a graphic from Twitter account About Music (Twitter: AboutMusicYT), which shows Kpop’s Top 9 groups in terms of Spotify monthly listeners.
According to this graphic, BTS naturally assumes the top position with 45.8 million monthly listeners. Most surprisingly, BLACKPINK is in 3rd place with 34.1 million, overtaken by FIFTY FIFTY – a girl group whose presence has sky-rocketed with their major hit “Cupid”
The Top 9 Kpop groups with the highest monthly listeners on Spotify is as follows:
- BTS – 45.8 million
- FIFTY FIFTY – 37.6 million
- BLACKPINK – 34.1 million
- NewJeans – 22.3 million
- TWICE – 12.8 million
- IVE – 11.7 million
- LE SSERAFIM – 11.5 million
- (G)I-DLE – 10 million
- TXT – 9.5 million
Below are some comments from netizens:
- Bangtan (BTS) are truly kings
- FIFTY FIFTY has been doing so well, I am deeply impressed
- This is truly a girl group era. I can’t believe there are only 2 boy groups that made the list
- Even solo profiles of BTS and BLACKPINK members record impressive numbers
- It is surprising to see FIFTY FIFTY being higher than BLACKPINK
Original post: Instiz