About 15 weeks after changing into obtainable to followers, Jungkook’s “Seven” has cracked a whopping one billion Spotify streams – setting a report within the course of.
Spotify only in the near past took to social media to tout the most recent consumption milestone for “Seven,” which options Latto and debuted on July 14th. The 109-day-old monitor is now “the quickest music to achieve 1 Billion streams in Spotify historical past,” the Stockholm-based platform spelled out.
Furthermore, “Seven” was on the time of this writing occupying the seventh place on Spotify’s World Prime 50 chart, above Doja Cat’s “Paint the City Purple” and beneath a newly ranked monitor from Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model).
Increasing upon the purpose – and driving house the numerous fan-fueled recognition of “Seven” – the record-breaking Jungkook effort has managed to stay a part of the Prime 50’s higher fifth regardless of releasing properly earlier than October albums from Drake, Dangerous Bunny, the aforementioned Swift, and different much-streamed acts.
To make sure, solely two of the chart’s top-10 songs, Íñigo Quintero’s fourth-ranked “Si No Estás” (2022) and Taylor Swift’s Tenth-ranked “Merciless Summer time” (2019), appear to be older than “Seven.” In the meantime, Drake’s For All of the Canine, which dropped on the sixth, had only one monitor, “IDGAF,” on your complete chart when this piece was revealed.
After all, Jungkook’s sizable streaming listenership can also be fascinating due to the relative stylistic departure that “Seven” represents from his work with BTS. Moreover, the Busan native will presumably take pleasure in a industrial enhance subsequent month, when his first studio album, together with “Seven” and “3D,” is anticipated to drop.
Greater image, the 26-year-old’s Spotify month-to-month listener rely, at 36.65 million, has now eclipsed that of BTS itself (30.76 million) in addition to the mixed complete attributable to the Ok-pop group’s six different members. (A few of these members are at present serving of their house nation’s navy as required by South Korean legislation, nonetheless.)
BTS Members’ Spotify Month-to-month Listeners
- Jungkook – 36.65 million
- BTS – 30.76 million
- V – 9.54 million
- Jimin – 7.70 million
- J-Hope – 3.85 million
- RM – 3.27 million
- Jin – 2.77 million
- Suga – 2.68 million
As Spotify’s userbase continues to develop – the platform reported 574 million MAUs for Q3 – streaming quantity can also be on the rise. Jungkook is one in all a number of artists (amongst them Miley Cyrus, Swift, and Dangerous Bunny) who’ve hit varied on-platform information all through 2023.
And it’s in opposition to this backdrop, to not point out the fast rise of AI music, that Spotify’s long-underwhelming common per-stream royalty price has reportedly saved on sliding. Taking into account the pattern, the Large Three labels (particularly Common Music) have been pushing for retooled streaming-compensation fashions, and Spotify is reportedly planning to implement an up to date royalty framework throughout 2024’s first quarter.