TIER RANKING: The Highest Digitally Successful Idol Group Songs (2015-now)

All tiers are sorted by release date.

S Tier = 200 million streams, 2.5 million downloads

A Tier = 100 million streams, 2.5 million downloads

B Tier (in order of release) = 2.5 million downloads

C Tier = 100 million streams

As it gets progressively harder to get 2.5 million downloads, any song released released in 2019 and from them on will be a mega hit (see "Boy with Luv").

100 million streams used to be the rare milestone, but now that position has switched.

Quote from Pearl-Iris

I like/love 95% of these songs so well deserved streams

Same here.

Quote from wsoet

These are Gaon certifications right? If so, shouldn't only songs released in 2018 or later be included?

Nope, I have screenshots of the previous Gaon Observation Notes.

Quote from wsoet

Right, so pages like this. But by my understanding, a song like Cheer Up isn't actually Gaon-certified, even though it meets the criteria for certification.

The "certifications" only started in 2018, but songs released before then that have hit the mark as said by Gaon themselves. The observation notes have songs from 2011-2020 included.

Quote from wsoet

On a related note, I did find this page, which tries to gather all the "certified" songs that have appeared on Gaon's Observation Notes.

That is extremely helpful.

Quote from wsoet

I agree that there are numerous songs released before 2018 that have met the required download/streaming numbers, as stated by Gaon themselves. I guess I'm just being pedantic about what actually counts as a "certification". For me, the songs released before 2018 are not "officially" certified even though they should be.

I'll change the wording of the title then.

Quote from mygsbeat

wow i never knew bwl had hit 2.5M downloads already

23 months to hit 2.5M used to be bad, but now it's amazing. How the tables have turned.

The other 2019 songs that hit it: Gotta Go (ChungHa), Four Seasons (Taeyeon), For lovers who hesitate (Jannabi)

Quote from babyjinx1221

dynaking the youngest song did that.

He's going for 2P in streaming already, I'm expecting Dyna to hit the mark before 2021 is over.