more songs = more streams?

Really interesting analysis! New jeans is so impressive for such a young group, there's still a lot of potential there.

Poor Newjeans just doubled their number of tracks with new remix album. Otherwise they would be on top

Why did you count BTS solo, but no Blackpink solo?

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Poor Newjeans just doubled their number of tracks with new remix album. Otherwise they would be on top

And Blackpink triple their track number lol i wish we had that many songs

Popularity = more streams

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Why did you count BTS solo, but no Blackpink solo?

I'm not sure but I think it's because they don't have enough streams for top 20 due to lack of songs.

Where is LE SSERAFIM?

They have 1,785,807,486 streams for 34 tracks (including their intros, instrumental, remixes) which equal to ~52,5M stream

Thanks, I always wondered this.

Enhypen doing incredibly well for such a small discography

Even with BTS, though they have lots of songs, majority of their streams are coming from few gigantic hits.

Fun fact: BTS top 15 most streamed tracks still outstream every kpop act

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https://kworb.net/spotify/arti…HmJ7a0Q6csE5cT_songs.html

If you want to make it about 'per song' then it should really be about that. Lisa easily number 1 based on these conditions.

Making a top 20 artists is just coz you don't wanna see Lisa number 1 pretty obvious.

Do you not understand English?

EXO have like in total 120 songs plus another 11 or 12 japanese tracks

A surprisingly limited disco and also the Overdose EP And MAMA EP is on EXO-K eye- and those have some significant amount of streams. If you add all that it’ll give a true picture of EXO.

this is pretty much useless stat if you don't filter out the different versions/remixes.

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Do you not understand English?

Lol, there is a reason I blocked that user.

interesting

numbers don't lie but it's how one interprets them that matter

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I wrote in the very first sentence I was only doing the top20 most streamed kpop artists, Lisa is the most streamed bp soloist and she doesn't make the top 20. I also only included 4/7 bts soloists, if I

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Blackpink members on Spotify, a look back at their solo music under YG

Since we got confirmation that none of the members renewed individual contracts with YG hopefully they'll be releasing a lot more solo music soon (I'm looking at you miss Jennie ) and I thought I could take a closer look at how their solo music performed on spotify, there's also the fact that Blackpink have one of the easiest discographies in kpop to analyse so it was really easy to make this

All the stream totals are taken from the kworb website and are from the last week of December.

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Jan 5th 2024

So you took top 20 most streamed artist at first then order these artists in certain order. Pretty much cherry picking.

Anyway, I think this list is pretty pointless, because some artist have more remixes and other versions than others. Would be interesting to see average without different versions.

Your tittle in general is pretty misleading because more tracks not equal more songs IMO.

Popular songs* mostly (which is.. logical) but yes also overall number of course

EXO

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Instead of ranking artists based on total streams, here are the top20 most streamed kpop artists on Spotify in order of average streams per track:

Rank	Artist	Streams	Tracks	Average
1	BTS	37,685,014,042	272	138,547,846
14	Jimin	2,696,977,330	21	128,427,492
19	V	2,130,155,843	18	118,341,991
2	BLACKPINK	12,345,418,247	108	114,309,428
8	NewJeans	3,606,402,284	32	112,700,071
6	Jung Kook	4,600,663,909	45	102,236,976
11	Suga/AgustD	3,040,149,404	40	76,003,735
12	ENHYPEN	2,875,780,379	68	42,290,888
7	TOMORROW X TOGETHER	3,917,928,339	96	40,811,754
13	(G)I-DLE	2,875,780,379	80	35,947,255
3	TWICE	7,715,318,783	246	31,363,084
5	SEVENTEEN	4,820,675,726	176	27,390,203
4	Stray Kids	6,637,119,267	256	25,926,247
17	ITZY	2,377,632,894	99	24,016,494
10	Red Velvet	3,148,385,659	150	20,989,238
18	NCT DREAM	2,275,574,460	114	19,961,179
15	IU	2,597,775,733	160	16,236,098
16	NCT 127	2,384,580,669	157	15,188,412
20	ATEEZ	1,995,234,833	143	13,952,691
9	EXO	3,491,546,260	320	10,911,082

The fact that BTS still manages to be #1 even with all the Japanese versions, remixes, skits, intros, outros, interludes, instrumentals, and let's not forget all the b-sides they released before they blew up that drag down their average, is actually insane. Them having more than 3 times the total streams of the 2nd most streamed kpop act is the reason they remain in first place even with the very inflated track count.

Blackpink, Twice, Stray Kids, Jungkook and EXO are probably the artists that have their averages affected the most by inflated track counts: live versions (BP & EXO), different-language versions (Twice & EXO), remixes (Jk & Twice) and re-recorded versions (Skz).

IU making it onto the list and her average actually being higher than a few groups is impressive considering she debuted in 2008 and the majority of her discography was released before spotify became a thing in kpop.

Newjeans show once again why they're in a league of their own compared to the rest of 4th gen and BTS soloists are just out there casually beating most groups and proving that if they release more solo music they'd all enter the top10 most streamed kpop artists in no time.

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Fun Fact: When we remove all of Jungkook's remixes, he still has 4.42B streams on Spotify with 16 tracks.

I think, the most impressive thing is that IU is the only REAL soloist on this list.

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https://kworb.net/spotify/arti…HmJ7a0Q6csE5cT_songs.html

If you want to make it about 'per song' then it should really be about that. Lisa easily number 1 based on these conditions.

Making a top 20 artists is just coz you don't wanna see Lisa number 1 pretty obvious.

Jesus, and some Blonks don't get why other Kpop fans say, they're clueless. Please do some research. It's not like you can't find these stats for yourself.🙄

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this is pretty much useless stat if you don't filter out the different versions/remixes.

Exactly! That's why I always said to BTS and Blackpink fans, they should look at the Unique Listeners! To be fair, without remixes/different version this list wouldn't be much different, because most people ignore B-sides too, not to mention remix versions.

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Filtering out remixes/versions is harder than u think, take for example 5050, cupid counts for 7 tracks on their profile, 5 of these contribute only around 15 million streams to their profile, those are easy enough to remove. But technically the twin version is the additional version that I should remove if i'm not counting remixes. Which leaves me with the OG's 193m instead of the twin version's 779m streams.

Another example is mic drop, there are 4 versions on BTS's profile. The Japanese version (16m) I can easily remove, but the other 3 tracks all have over 200 million streams each, again if I only keep the original from the ly:her album, I'll have to delete the ly:answer version which is actually the version with the most streams (ly:answer 307m, ly:her 225m, Desiigner remix 200m)

If either of you want to make a better list, you can use this link to get artists' streams easier: https://kworb.net/spotify/artists.html. Good luck

I count Blackpink average streams! Was pretty easy.

I would say it's hard to do a "fair" comparison like that because groups with a lot of songs will have disadvantage when streaming is spread out on a lot of songs if you compare average. Good example is proably if you look at G-idle and Twice in this list, or EXO. And if you look at the total number, the ones with many songs get a benefit. So, maybe a list of the 10-20 most stream songs of every artist is more fair.

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I count Blackpink average streams! Was pretty easy.

Now do that for 20 other artists

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I count Blackpink average streams! Was pretty easy.

Of course it’s easy to do for blackpink

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So you took top 20 most streamed artist at first then order these artists in certain order. Pretty much cherry picking.

Anyway, I think this list is pretty pointless, because some artist have more remixes and other versions than others. Would be interesting to see average without different versions.

Your tittle in general is pretty misleading because more tracks not equal more songs IMO.

basically ^

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I think, the most impressive thing is that IU is the only REAL soloist on this list.

Jesus, and some Blonks don't get why other Kpop fans say, they're clueless. Please do some research. It's not like you can't find these stats for yourself.🙄

Exactly! That's why I always said to BTS and Blackpink fans, they should look at the Unique Listeners! To be fair, without remixes/different version this list wouldn't be much different, because most people ignore B-sides too, not to mention remix versions.

ripia is not even a blink lol he is a once

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I count Blackpink average streams! Was pretty easy.

can you do average streams (without different versions or remixes) for the most popular groups? it would be interesting to know

Chocolate-cheeks My bad, I was over by 40M streams earlier but this is Jungkook with just the 16 songs to his name. (no remixes) Didn't include the 3D Alternative Version.

Total = 4,388,050,099

Just for fun, what would be his avg with just the 16 songs?

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basically ^

ripia is not even a blink lol he is a once

I don't know what are you trying to say. Who's "ripia"? 🤣

I think the problem with this methodology is it's distort a bit the numbers because some tracks are just remixes or another versions of songs

Also a group with 10 promoted singles and a discography of 30 tracks is much more likely to have bigger streams than a group with only 4 singles and the same 30 tracks

A good way to fix this is to count promoted singles, promoted b-sides and standard b-sides apart and remove the live and remixes versions of the track count

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This hurt my soul. I'm that unknown now?

It's my name.

Sorry. Now, I know! 😅

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can you do average streams (without different versions or remixes) for the most popular groups? it would be interesting to know

Theoretically I could, but it would take time, because some groups have over 200 tracks and I am not getting paid by this.

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I think the problem with this methodology is it's distort a bit the numbers because some tracks are just remixes or another versions of songs

Also a group with 10 promoted singles and a discography of 30 tracks is much more likely to have bigger streams than a group with only 4 singles and the same 30 tracks

A good way to fix this is to count promoted singles, promoted b-sides and standard b-sides apart and remove the live and remixes versions of the track count

Tbh I don’t agree with that promoted single part even tho what you say is true. If a company didn’t promote you right that’s part of what affects your popularity. And imo that should be reflected in how we view streams.