BTS stands out as the only K-Pop artist (both group and solo).
BTS has achieved yet another impressive feat on Spotify. Their 2018 song “IDOL” has become the group’s 15th track to surpass 500 million streams on the platform. BTS stands out as the only K-Pop artist (group or solo) and also the only Asian artist (group or solo) to have 15 songs with over half a billion streams on Spotify.
List of BTS’s 15 biggest hits on Spotify:
01) “Dynamite”: 2 billion plays
02) “My Universe” (with Coldplay): 1.4 billion plays
03) “Butter”: 1.3 billion plays
04) “Boy with Luv” (with Halsey): 1.2 billion plays
05) “Left and Right” (Charlie Puth feat. JungKook of BTS): 1 billion plays
06) “FAKE LOVE”: 923 million plays
07) “Life Goes On”: 789 million plays
08) “Permission To Dance”: 729 million plays
09) “DNA”: 682 million plays
10) “Euphoria”: 633 million plays
11) “Blood Sweat & Tears”: 611 million views
12) “Spring Day”: 557 million views
13) “Run BTS”: 509 million views
14) “Black Swan”: 502 million views
15) “IDOL”: 500 million views
Group Reaches 1 Billion Streams in Three Months, Despite Being on Hiatus
Despite being on hiatus, BTS continues to be relevant. The K-Pop group reached one billion streams on Spotify alone in the first three months of 2025. This is the first Korean group to reach this milestone on the platform while not active. The group suspended its activities in 2022 so that the seven members could focus on solo projects and mandatory military enlistment in South Korea. So far, only two members have been discharged from the military, but all are expected to be released by June, and the group plans to return later this year.
BTS is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Music, a subsidiary of HYBE Corporation, in 2013. It consists of seven members: RM, Jin, SUGA, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. The group made their official debut on June 13, 2013, with the release of the single “No More Dream”, a track from their single album 2 Cool 4 Skool.
BTS’s achievements led the group to be ranked number one on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list for 2018, which ranks the most powerful and influential celebrities in South Korea.[2] Billboard compared the pandemonium and fan madness in the United States to the chaos caused by the Beatles in the 1960s.
