Spotify album breakdowns for BTS, Blackpink, Exo, Twice, Stray kids, Txt and more

Disclaimer #1: This is old data, I was looking through old files on my laptop and found this excel sheet and decided to share it. All data is from January 2022.

Disclaimer #2: For the single/b-side songs, I mostly went by wikipedia.

Disclaimer #3: A lot of this was done manually so please be gentle with any mistakes old me might have done

Bigbang, Blackpink, Enhypen, Exo, Ikon, Itzy, IU, Somi, Kda, NCT and Red Velvet

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Stray Kids, TXT and Twice

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BTS

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Sorted by highest average per song. Bgs sort of do better than ggs here

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Sorted by highest average per single. Here ggs do better.

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Sorted by highest average per b-side. Here again bgs do better than ggs. IU was a surprise

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Sorted by highest singles to b-sides total streams ratio. It seems that bg b-sides really do perform better, or maybe their singles just perform worse, depends on how you want to look at it really at least that's how it was 2 years ago

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The landscape of kpop has changed a lot in 2 years. I wonder if I did this again where all the new powerhouse ggs would end up. Also how would the new ggs with their devoted fandoms fare against their bg counterparts in b-side streams?

And yes, I did count the 2 instrumentals for butter and PTD as the b-sides for the butter single album

Quote from icyruios

The BGs B-sides doing better is not surprising and reinforce the sentiment that many are thinking.

That BG is more fandom and GG is more GP. Because BGs rely more on fandom, fandoms tend to stream and listen to entire albums more than GGs

Whereas GGs rely more on GP (they now however have more fandom as well which can rival BGs though), and hence the focus is more on the title track, rather than the whole album.

that's true, but now we're starting to have ggs that can challenge bgs in that regard as well. newjeans have better b-side streams than every single other group except bts and bp. I wonder how an actual full album from them would be like. Aespa, lsrfm and Ive all have great b-side streams as well

Quote from onwards

I actually wonder if we can truly call any of Newjeans b-sides as b-sides. They all have MV's, got staggered releases and some level of solo promotion and we know all those factors tend to increase the streams of b-side songs. Same with Aespa, lsrfim and Ive - how big is the gap between their b-sides that got promotions and those that didn't?

I guess we won't really know until nj release a full length album

I just checked aespa's first mini and lucid dream is by far the most streamed b-side with 60m streams, the 2nd is aenergy with 40m. As far as I know neither song was promoted

For Ive, Blue blood has 17m while lips has 15m. other than blue blood being performed at their fan concert before release, I don't remember it being promoted.

For lsrfm's 2nd mini, impurities has 80m, good parts has 62m and no celestial has 36m. only impurities got an mv but all 3 songs got performances on music shows as far as I know. On their 1st ep blue flame was promoted much more than sour grapes but sour grapes has around 30m more streams.

Quote from ForgottenSoul

What a Sausage fest jesus ;p

I'm sure if I did this again with 2023 streams included and all the new 4th gen ggs and removed bts completely ggs would be much better represented