According to Allkpop, on August 3, the hit English single "Dynamite" by Kpop group BTS officially surpassed a whopping 1.9 billion streams on Spotify - the music streaming platform. biggest music in the world.
BTS has set a new record among Kpop artists. “Dynamite” became the first song by a Kpop artist to reach the historic milestone of 1.9 billion streams on Spotify.
“Dynamite” was released on August 21, 2020 as BTS's first full English single, and is a song on the group's full-length album “BE”. The song established this record after 3 years and 11 months of release.
Previously, "Dynamite" held many records, such as the song by the first Kpop artist not collaborating with another artist to climb to the Top 1 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. To date, "Dynamite" is still the longest-running Kpop song on this chart, with 32 weeks.
“Dynamite” has been voted by many famous magazines in the list of best songs of 2020 such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, NME, The New York Times, IZM...
“Dynamite” and a series of other hit songs have made BTS the most successful Kpop group in history.
At the end of 2022, BTS announced the suspension of group activities to allow 7 members (Jin, RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V, Jungkook) to develop a solo career and perform military service.
Last June, Jin was the first member of the group to be discharged from the army. BTS is expected to return with a full lineup in 2025.
