Jimin Makes History: BTS Star Becomes First K-Pop Soloist to Smash 4 Billion Streams on Spotify and Holds the Longest No. 1 Streak for a Korean Artist

BTS’ Jimin has set a remarkable record as a K-pop solo artist on the world’s largest music platform, Spotify.

Jimin recorded a total of 5,157.84 million streams with 34 songs in the 2 years and 6 months since his Spotify personal profile was created on October 23 (Korean time). Jimin’s pure solo song, without any collaboration, exceeded 4 billion streams, becoming the first and only K-pop solo singer in history to achieve this feat.

Jimin’s 1st solo album title song ‘Like Crazy’, the first K-pop solo song to top the Billboard main song chart ‘Hot 100’, surpassed 1.29946 billion streams as of the 26th and is on the verge of reaching 1.3 billion even though it is a Korean song. The title song of his 2nd solo album, ‘Who’, is leading the streaming record for solo songs, exceeding 861.8 million streams in 100 days.

‘Whoo’ ranked first on Spotify’s ‘Global Daily Top Song’ chart for 20 days during the 100 days of its release, and settled in the ‘Top 10’ for 100 days, continuing its popularity as the most streamed K-pop song in 2024, and to this day, it has been ranked 48th most popular song worldwide. Their name is on the country charts.

As of October 26, Jimin was ranked first on Spotify’s ‘Korea Daily Top Song’ chart for 100 consecutive days, showing the dignity of never falling from the top, and Jimin maintained the first place on the ‘Korea Daily Top Artist’ chart for 458 days. The longest record for a K-pop artist is being expanded every day.

Meanwhile, according to the UK Official Chart released on the 26th (Korean time), Jimin’s ‘Whoo’ ranked 48th on the UK Official Singles Top 100 Chart and successfully charted for 14 consecutive weeks, ranking first since the chart reorganization in 2014. It became the K-pop solo song with the longest charting record.