spotify monthly stats of 15 girlgroups

    Quote from wsoet

    Ok, so I think that the table headings would be clearer as total_streams and monthly_listeners. Now would it also be possible to pull data to support a monthly_streams column?

    i think i'd need historical data for monthly_streams which spotify does not provide

    Quote from wsoet

    Why did JYPE not put Twice's music on Spotify until late 2018? This seems like a foolish decision given that streaming was already quite popular back then.

    The world will truly never know what goes on inside that head of his. :pepe-shrug:

    Quote from Tru-Multistan

    i think i'd need historical data for monthly_streams which spotify does not provide

    That's too bad. I was hoping for a time-phased data set of monthly streams, so that we could examine the rise and fall of the various groups over the years. I'm assuming that similar historical per-month data can't be provided for monthly listeners either.

    Quote from Tru-Multistan

    yes its very possible Twice would have more total streams than BP had they opened their account earlier. they do have almost 3x as many tracks, but still impressive numbers

    i don't think so. tt and cheer up would have maybe 500 million streams each. they still have 200M. wouldnt make up for the 4 billion stream difference.

    Using the data provided by Tru-Multistan, I made an attempt to get an idea of which groups have the most fandom-driven streams.


    For this analysis, I'm assuming that a follower is a fan, since I don't think that most people would follow an artist on Spotify that they don't have at least some fondness for.


    I then divided the number of total followers (i.e. the number of fans) by the number of monthly listeners, and expressed the result as a percentage. Thus, a group with a large number of monthly listeners but a low number of followers (fans) would have a lower corresponding percentage, indicating that their streams are "general public"-supported, and that their fandom is weaker.


    ArtistMonthly ListenersTotal Followers
    		Followers ÷ Listeners
    BLACKPINK16,802,65749,631,714295.38%
    TWICE9,533,74820,325,733213.20%
    ITZY5,224,2357,423,299142.09%
    Red Velvet6,670,2589,129,791136.87%
    (G)I-DLE9,959,8449,287,30393.25%
    STAYC2,360,6261,871,92579.30%
    NMIXX3,805,2092,896,14676.11%
    IVE7,351,0654,282,48258.26%
    NewJeans17,740,4058,384,70447.26%
    aespa12,607,1525,800,12346.01%
    LE SSERAFIM11,868,2245,368,64845.24%
    KISS OF LIFE4,606,326996,09421.62%
    BABYMONSTER9,431,3161,848,24019.60%
    FIFTY FIFTY9,103,6241,620,48217.80%
    ILLIT14,202,5121,131,2517.97%


    Looking at these results, they do make some intuitive sense. Fifty Fifty is perhaps the best example of "the song being bigger than the group", and I don't think Illit has had time to really establish a fandom yet.

    Quote from Tru-Multistan

    yes its very possible Twice would have more total streams than BP had they opened their account earlier.

    Nope


    First Blackpink songs to cross 100 million were Boombayah and AIIYL and both only crossed it by December 2018. BP cumulative streams before 2019 was well under one billion mark


    The key to understanding why is Spotify aviability in Asia. In Japan and Indonesia it launched in 2016, in Thailand in 2017, in Vietnam in 2018, in India in 2019, in Korea only in 2021. Of course it take some years after launch for a country to have a significant amount of subscribers and streaming activity


    Long story short, Twice did not lost a significant amount of streams being absent from Spotify for 3 years. While their numbers would surely be bigger, they would never make a significant difference not because Twice were unpopular, it was simply because Spotify were not widely used yet

    Quote from Jasmine_Waters

    Need to make note that TWICE Spotify account was created in late 2018. They missed their most dominant years (2016-2018) with their most dominant hits (Cheer Up for SK and TT for Japan) at their peak viralness/height. But they still are making up for it in in six years. Not bad at all.


    Anyways as a chart watcher, I'm curious how Illit and Le Sserafim will fair on BB Hot 100 in the later half of this year. :eyes:


    The account was created before then, it just only had the Japanese tracks until early 2018 when they added the Korean ones. idk why Once always pretend that wasn't the case.
    Spotify wasn't very big for kpop in 2016/2017 so it wouldn't have changed things much, maybe an extra few hundred million to their total.

    Yea that's actually a good point about it taking time to catch on. Saying it was very possible is wrong. Maybe it was possible, but pretty unlikely, it is quite a bit difference.


    Quote from wsoet

    I then divided the number of total followers (i.e. the number of fans) by the number of monthly listeners, and expressed the result as a percentage. Thus, a group with a large number of monthly listeners but a low number of followers (fans) would have a lower corresponding percentage, indicating that their streams are "general public"-supported, and that their fandom is weaker.

    This is an interesting insight, glad I posted the data cus I would never think to do that ^^ . I found some more comprehensive regional data for spotify monthly listeners that I can post when I have time. It's not limited to top 5 cities so shows a bit more worldwide

    Searching with Twitter, Twice had Japanese songs available to stream on Spotify as early as August 2017. Potentially earlier, but that's the earliest I could find evidence.
    The account was opened earlier and had a few hundred thousand followers some months before that.

    Twice's Korean tracks were added March 2018. So the people saying "late" 2018 are trying to downplay their lack of streams by saying a later date I guess.

    Just for people trying to rewrite history.

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