SEOUL, March 16 (Yonhap) – Followers of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK on global music streaming service giant Spotify have surpassed 20 million, a record number for a girl group worldwide. world, has announced, this Tuesday, its representation agency, YG Entertainment.
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The agency said that the number of followers of BLACKPINK on Spotify reached, on Monday (US time), 20 million, being the highest number for a girl group worldwide.
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BLACKPINK’s number of followers doubled in just one year and three months after the quartet surpassed that of popular American girl group Fifth Harmony in 2019 on the platform.
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Offering music streaming services, Spotify has more than 350 million subscribers around the world and is highly influential on music charts such as US Billboard and UK Official Charts.
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On the other hand, BLACKPINK has the second highest number of subscribers among artists in the world, with more than 58.8 million, on YouTube, after Canadian singer Justin Bieber, with 61.5 million. Likewise, the group has 26 videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times on the platform, symbolizing the paradigm shift in the music market.
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