Top 10 Spotify listeners per city for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)

  • BTS - 39,548,066


    1. Jakarta, ID- 1,137,062 listeners

    2. Mexico City, MX- 676,447

    3. Delhi, IN- 545,873

    4. Mumbai, IN- 495,315

    5. Ouezon City, PH- 485,122

    6. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 474,833

    7. Santiago, CL- 471,230

    8. Bangkok, TH- 468,342

    9. Sao Paulo, BR- 435,312

    10. London, GB- 430,830


    BLACKPINK - 21,872,383


    1. Jakarta, ID- 800,773 listeners

    2. Bangkok, TH- 459,023

    3. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 368,286

    4. Mexico City, MX- 320,366

    5. Quezon City, PH- 304,951

    6. Delhi, IN- 301,845

    7. Bandung, ID- 264,011

    8. Santiago, CL- 262,771

    9. Surabaya, ID- 247,578

    10. Mumbai, IN- 236,736


    NewJeans - 20,796,916


    1. Jakarta, ID- 1,160,031 listeners

    2. Bangkok, TH- 600,011 listeners

    3. Bandung, ID- 397,254

    4. Quezon City, PH- 395,780

    5. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 374,738

    6. Surabaya, ID- 357,848

    7. Semarang, ID- 270,438

    8. Tokyo, JP- 269,434

    9. Los Angeles, US- 217,525

    10. Santiago, CL- 209,721


    TWICE - 11,514,273


    1. Jakarta, ID- 346,561 listeners

    2. Tokyo, JP- 246,527

    3. Quezon City, PH- 234,575

    4. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 189,272

    5. Chiyoda-ku, JP- 185,552

    6. Santiago, CL- 174,629

    7. Bangkok, TH- 173,171

    8. Mexico City, MX- 170,534

    9. Lima, PE- 135,119

    10. Umeda, JP- 133,778


    LE SSERAFIM - 9,859,915


    1. Jakarta, ID- 398,160 listeners

    2. Quezon City, PH- 228,183

    3. Tokyo, JP- 209,128

    4. Bangkok, TH- 207,401

    5. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 187,045

    6. Chiyoda-ku, JP- 132,933

    7. Santiago, CL- 128,871

    8. Surabaya, ID- 128,791

    9. Manila, PH- 116,664

    10. Caloocan, PH- 108,540


    This is the stats for the Top 5 Kpop groups with most monthly Spotify listeners. Obviously, Indonesia is hard carrying Kpop on the platform (even with their western counterpart like Taylor Swift) given the population in the country. BTS' listeners in India is huge which is not surprising since they expanded the audience in India for Kpop overall. NewJeans have a huge listeners in Jakarta.


    Ofcourse, this amount of listeners changes depends on the artists' activity/inactivity.


    Source: Spotify and https://songstats.com/artist/yelwdr9p/bts/audience

  • sweetenerstan

    Changed the title of the thread from “Top 5 Spotify listeners by each country for Kpop groups” to “Top 5 Spotify listeners by each country for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)”.
  • Top 6 peak Spotify monthly listeners per country:

    *correct number (as of Feb. 1,2023)


    BTS


    1. India- 3,761,818

    2. Philippines- 3,563,180

    3. Japan- 3,501,855

    4. Indonesia- 3,348,980

    5. US- 2,966,353

    6. Mexico- 1,804,521


    Blackpink


    1. Indonesia- 2,880,278

    2. Philippines- 2,458,688

    3. India- 2,226,781

    4. US- 1,519,328

    5. Mexico- 924,460

    6. Japan- 819,701


    NewJeans


    1. Indonesia- 3,230,307

    2. Philippines- 1,855,950

    3. US- 1,037,691

    4. Japan- 808,115

    5. Thailand- 600,011

    6. Malaysia- 425,045


    Twice


    1. Japan- 2,449,045

    2. Philippines- 2,084,180

    3. Indonesia- 1,067,522

    4. US- 824,369

    5. Malaysia- 330,974

    6. Taiwan- 329,733


    Le Sserafim


    1. Indonesia- 1,307,617

    2. Philippines- 1,132,371

    3. Japan- 899,516

    4. US- 295,375

    5. Malaysia- 239,446

    6. Taiwan- 287,104


    Note: The number changes every song release.

  • Checking the unique listeners per city/county is very important for the artists/company because they can based their potential audience if ever they plan on visiting a city for touring.

  • EXO :

    1. Jakarta, Indonesia

    2. Kula Lumpur, Malaysia

    3. Bangkok, Thailand

    4. Quezon, PH

    5. Bandung, Indonesia


    Yeah I knew Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines hard carried EXO. These are the most active users I’ve seen on social media as well.

  • If y'all want to see the stats for YT (28 days)


    BTS


    1. Japan

    2. Mexico

    3. India

    4. Brazil

    5. United States


    Blackpink


    1. India

    2. Thailand

    3. Indonesia

    4. Mexico

    5. Brazil


    NewJeans


    1. South Korea

    2. Japan

    3. Thailand

    4. Indonesia

    5. United States


    TWICE


    1. Japan

    2. Philippines

    3. Mexico

    4. United States

    5. Indonesia


    This is the raking for the highest views per country on Youtube.

  • That Spotify stat on Twice is misleading, Indonesia is not even top 10 listeners of Moonlight Sunrise


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  • That Spotify stat on Twice is misleading, Indonesia is not even top 10 listeners of Moonlight Sunrise


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    You're talking about streams. The stats I posted is a unique listeners per city from Spotify itself. You can see it on the desktop version of Spotify. Go to Twice profile, then click the 'about' profile with their mls in it.


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  • That Spotify stat on Twice is misleading, Indonesia is not even top 10 listeners of Moonlight Sunrise


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    cmb affect those charts obv

  • sweetenerstan

    Changed the title of the thread from “Top 5 Spotify listeners by each country for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)” to “Top 5 Spotify listeners per city for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)”.
  • wait let me post about the 2022 city population.

    • jakarta: 11,075,000
    • tokyo: 37,274,000
    • delhi: 32,066,000
    • mumbai: 20,961,000
    • kuala lumpur: 8,420,000
    • bangkok: 10,900,000+
    • mexico city: 22,085,000
    • quezon city: 3,198,000+
    • for comparison, seoul: 9,976,000

    that means for quezon city, there are 15% population of quezon city know and listen to bts on spotify, >10% to black pink and newjeans, and >7% for lesserafim and twice


    compared to jakarta, which usually top listener by city, there are roughly 10% for both bts and newjeans, >7% for blackpink.


    huh, having more than 10 percent of population recognition especially as foreign act is definitely big. especially compared to very segregated listeners in big city such as london and new york.

  • That Spotify stat on Twice is misleading, Indonesia is not even top 10 listeners of Moonlight Sunrise


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    They might be checking out other songs too. US is not surprising since it’s in English and r&b

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  • BTS' listeners per city update in July 2022


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    Update in September 2022


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    Interesting. I never really focused on listeners before, but this is cool.

  • sweetenerstan

    Changed the title of the thread from “Top 5 Spotify listeners per city for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)” to “Top 10 Spotify listeners per city for Kpop groups (BTS, Blackpink, NewJeans, Twice & Le Sserafim)”.
  • It's not simple as that. Not everyone in this number of population listens to music or use Spotify as their means of listening to music. For example, except for Mexico, majority of people in these cities or their country origin don't use Spotify as their music platform.

  • You seem to be confusing metro population and city population.

    Jakarta has more than 30M inhabitants in its metro area

  • It's not simple as that. Not everyone in this number of population listens to music or use Spotify as their means of listening to music. For example, except for Mexico, majority of people in these cities or their country origin don't use Spotify as their music platform.

    hmm i'm aware bc tokyo is not on top 5 city listeners for bts when i know japan in biggest foreign music streaming for bts (and general korean musician) from a korean music consumption survey. because this is unique listeners which means unique user account, the number could represent the minimum recognition. pretty rough, i admit. i tried to find other platform's audience size but that means i also have to check people with multiple subscriptions.


    but i'm okay with any method everyone would like me to try, that was just a whim work.


    You seem to be confusing metro population and city population.

    Jakarta has more than 30M inhabitants in its metro area

    thank you for the correction 😅 i think spotify specifically uses city and not metro since quezon city is part of metro manila and manila has its own identifier at spotify (i checked because i only know manila as philippines' capital). this is city proper population that i can get:

    • jakarta: 11,075,000
    • tokyo: 14,000,000
    • delhi: 15,217,000
    • mumbai: 17,159,000
    • kuala lumpur: 1,453,000+ as of 2021
    • bangkok: 6,355,000
    • mexico city: 9,200,000+
    • quezon city: 2,690,000
    • seoul: 9,976,000
  • just for the fun of it i'm gonna list the last time BTS went to these countries on tour


    1. Jakarta, ID- 2017


    2. Mexico City, MX- 2015


    3. Delhi, IN- never


    4. Mumbai, IN- never


    5. Ouezon City, PH- 2017


    6. Kuala Lumpur, MY- 2015


    7. Santiago, CL- 2017


    8. Bangkok, TH- 2019


    9. Sao Paulo, BR- 2019


    10. London, GB- 2019

    ie only 3/10 of these countries were included on the Love Yourself World Tour... crazy right.


    Haven't ever been to india (were gonna go)

    haven't been to Malaysia or Mexico since 2015

    haven't been to Philippines, Chile, Indonesia since 2017

  • Actually, I'm working on a spreadsheet of which cities they have the highest potential of touring by 2025/2026. I've included the cancelled MOTS:7 tour in 2020, then added more (I used their peers' go-to tour per city). From what I can see, they can definitely sold 4M-5M tickets (potential sales) when it happens.


    For reference, they've sold roughly 2M tickets in 2018-2019 which is a mix of arena & stadium. Since then, BTS has more than doubled their popularity and fanbase. Another reference, BTS ml's peak at 21M listeners before pandemic/dynamite era, then last year their peak is 45M listeners.

  • Actually, I'm working on a spreadsheet of which cities they have the highest potential of touring by 2025/2026. I've included the cancelled MOTS:7 tour in 2020, then added more (I used their peers' go-to tour per city). From what I can see, they can definitely sold 4M-5M tickets (potential sales) when it happens.


    For reference, they've sold roughly 2M tickets in 2018-2019 which is a mix of arena & stadium. Since then, BTS has more than doubled their popularity and fanbase. Another reference, BTS ml's peak at 21M listeners before pandemic/dynamite era, then last year their peak is 45M listeners.

    Here's the spreadsheet if you're interested worldlove27:teddy-pepe:

    I feel like HYBE will book less stadiums/dates tho. They will more likely to book stadiums conservatively when they comeback again to tour because of the hiatus. Although, I'm sure they'll go all out for their second world tour post-military. Europe has a lot of potential for touring, imo.

  • Seems like NJ is the second most popular group there in Kpop after BTS. I'm curious how the table will turn if they somehow found their footing internationally and attain a huge fanbase.

  • No. BTS can pull 700k listeners in Tokyo during a comeback. Contrary to popular opinion that japan is a physical market, they have been transitioning to streaming at a fast rate

    From what I heard, music listeners in Japan prefer to stream more than buy physical albums nowadays. A lot of album sales is heavily inflated there esp for JPOP groups because of fansigns/fanmeet. A huge bulk of sales came from fans than gp, so the physical market is not the same as it used to.

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