Published March 9, 2023, 8:43 AM
The Guinness World Records officially declared that K-pop group BLACKPINK as the most streamed female group on Spotify.
Guinness World Records made the announcement on March 8, tallying that BLACKPINK’s “songs have a whopping 8,880,030,049 individual streams.”
It said BLACKPINK “overtook British pop group Little Mix by 400 million streams.”
Their most streamed songs on Spotify include “How You Like That” (746,198,263 streams), “Kill This Love” (672,084,360) and “DDU-DU DDU-DU” (574,613,362).
“All four individual members of BLACKPINK have at least 66 million followers on Instagram, while the group’s joint account has racked up 53 million followers,” Guinness World Records added.
BLACKPINK have several Guinness World Records titles such as “most subscribers for a band on YouTube as well as becoming the first K-pop group to reach No.1 on the UK albums chart (female) and the first K-pop group to reach No.1 on the US albums chart (female).”
“Spotify currently has over 480 million users worldwide, making genres like K-pop a lot more accessible to global audiences,” it said.