According to Spotify on December13th, “Ditto”, a song from NewJeans’ single album “OMG”, was streamed 7,116,492 times as of the 11th. This is NewJeans’ second song to reach 700 million streams, following the title song of the same name, “OMG”.
Overall, New Jeans has released a total of 14 songs that have surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify, as of date. In partcular, “OMG” and “Ditto” have surpassed 700 million streams, “Super Shy” and “Hype Boy” have surpassed 600 million streams, “Attention” has surpassed 400 million streams, “New Jeans” and “ETA” have surpassed 300 million streams, “Cookie”, “Hurt”, and “Cool With You” have surpassed 200 million streams, while “ASAP”, “Get Up”, “How Sweet” and “Supernatural” have surpassed 100 million streams each. The total number of Spotify streams for all of their songs to date has surpassed 5.5 billion.
Previously on December 19th, NewJeans released 2 MVs for their new song “Ditto”. The song, in which member Minji contributed to the music, boasts a winter atmosphere of the old times and arouses feelings of nostalgia. The song is a pre-release ahead of NewJeans’ single album “OMG”.
Within just 2 hours after its release, “Ditto” reached the top of MelOn’s Real-time chart, setting a new record for the group. It is also the fastest girl group song to achieve No.1 on MelOn’s Top 100 chart, and even recently recorded a “real-time all-kill” by getting first place in all popular music platforms in South Korea.
It also set a record of placing No.1 on the daily chart for 99 consecutive days on Melon and topping the 2023 comprehensive annual chart.
Additionally, the song also allowed NewJeans to enter Billboard’s main song chart “Hot 100” and the UK’s “Top 100” Single Chart within just 6 months after their debut.
Furthermore, “Ditto” became a hot topic across various global SNS platforms due to the line distribution of the song. In particular, Vietnamese member Hanni has the longest singing time with 38.8 seconds, followed by Danielle with 37 seconds. Meanwhile, Haerin’s parts amount to 30.5 seconds, and Minji and Hyein sing for 24 and 20.4 seconds, respectively.
In general, most fans seem to be pleased with such line distribution, even describing it as among the fairest in Kpop. There are several complaints that Hyein deserves more singing time, but overall, comments have been positive.
Source: Daum, k14
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