Forum's kinda dead? Topic: BTS have the most hits for a Kpop group and here's why.

So about 2 years ago, I made a thread asking if BTS has the most national hits, but that topic has been discussed to death at this point. So I'm here to discuss something slightly different.

BTS recently tied TWICE as the group with the most certified songs by Gaon, both with 10.

I consider the following songs hits since they have 2/3 things listed below:

• 3M Melon ULs
• 200M Spotify streams
• ≥ 1 certification outside of Korea

FIRE (3/3); Permission to Dance (3/3); I NEED U (3/3); Euphoria 3/3); Mikrokosmos (3/3); Dope (3/3), Life Goes On (3/3), Black Swan (3/3), Make it Right (3/3), Anpanman (3/3), I'm Fine (2/3), Best of Me (2/3), Not Today (2/3), Magic Shop (2/3), and The Truth Untold (2/3).

Out of these 15, 7 of them have music videos and all of them have at least 200M views. FIRE's M/V has over 1 billion combined views from 1theK and HYBE channels; DOPE is similar with 800M+ views across 2 uploads. PTD and LGO are both above 400M views each.

BTS has the most certified songs by the RIAJ (in streaming) for a Kpop group with 2.36B accredited streams. They also have the most songs certified in both the US, Australia, and UK for a kpop group.

Now I know people will bring up BP, TWICE, BIGBANG, etc. But I've extensively researched international certifications.

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[So I fucked around…] and investigated which K-pop songs actually went global.

I mainly used Wikipedia and Twitter and verified any sources I could. Also, China has no official sales body that certifies music, so none of those sales on QQ, Netease, etc. are not counted here.

Results in spoilers below, organized by group.
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If I missed any act, please let me know.

MassiveKpopFan

Mar 5th 2022

I did not use downloads as a benchmark since they're so rare now, but I will acknowledge that BIGBANG has 10 singles with at least 2.5M downloads + several others with 1M+. Not including 7 b-sides that clocked at least 1M as well. When it comes to South Korea, they are the only group touching BTS digitally.

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Oh, another thread about the achievements of BTS. This is going to revive the forum, for sure.

Get over it. I stick to making threads about my faves, not changing now.

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Ngl, part of me is veeeery interested to see if/how quickly this blows up. (Even though, as you know, I am far too mature for draaaama… )

You and I both. But i've had more threads flop than blow up and that's ok.

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Is this for Korea and worldwide? Either way, I agree. I think their longevity on charts is something to be noted as well.

In Korea, only BIGBANG is legit competition. Worldwide, no Korean act touches them.

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Is this for Korea and worldwide? Either way, I agree. I think their longevity on charts is something to be noted as well.

Please check out this post I made a few months ago, you might like it

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Why charting for longer matters [A post on chart longevity]

Today, I’m presenting one way to distinguish normal hits from the smashes that will go down in chart history: longevity. It’s the ability to chart for a long time, and in some cases, re-chart months or years after falling off the charts that separates the quick burn from the timeless.



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Charting for a year or more (52 weeks) in the top 100 is already impressive enough, but there are hits that can last even longer than that.

Here are idol group songs that meet this standard (organized by…

MassiveKpopFan

Aug 2nd 2021

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Also something. Would u include Euphoria as well for the bsides as it has 300M+ streams on spotify, 3.1M ULs on Melon,

it is also certified GOLD by the RIAJ which is a good 50M Streams and is honestly insane for pretty much a unpromoted bside

Let me add it.

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Also something. Would u include Euphoria as well for the bsides as it has 300M+ streams on spotify, 3.1M ULs on Melon,

it is also certified GOLD by the RIAJ which is a good 50M Streams and is honestly insane for pretty much a unpromoted bside

lmao I added like 7 more besides Euphoria.

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Now who would be dumb enough to act like bts doesn’t have the most hits int n in Korea?

What discussion will this start

In Korea only is a separate discussion. I've already stated why.

But some people contest this topic. I make threads like this to spread real knowledge and not stan twitter falsities.

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You file your own taxes don't you

girl I wish. I wanna learn how to though, it's my first year to file independently.

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Spring Day is truly insane!

She rules the charts and gives no fucks about anyone's feelings.

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Stream!

Stay on topic, or go. I don't like this in my threads.

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Ok then. Bts flops.

Goodbye lmao

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Kings of hit Bsides

that's that on that!

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See yourself out.

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The success of BTS’ b-sides is something I find genuinely fascinating, actually. I’ve not got or followed the numbers of other top groups b-sides - will hold my hands up - but when you see so many of BTS b-sides or at least NON title tracks having such staggering numbers and success, it really speaks to me of their reach.

I think it should be something I could investigate on my own time. The fact that they have around 50 b-sides past 100 million spotify streams and more in the 80-99 million range is absolutely crazy.

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i will never understand how people look at statistics and still question the obvious lmao such embarrassing anti behavior.

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but didn't we already know this

You'd be surprised at how dense people act for attention.