Only 11 artists in Spotify history have crossed 10 billion streams in a single year, and BTS is now among them.
Approx streams
1. Taylor Swift - 28.21B (2024)
2. Drake - 12.11B (2024)
3. Bad Bunny - 19.8B (2025)
4. The Weeknd - 13.27B (2024)
5. Ariana Grande - 10.03B (2024)
6. Billie Eilish - 12B (2024)
7. Travis Scott - 8.41B (2024)
8. Kendrick Lamar - 6.91B (2024)
9. Kanye West - 9.67B (2024)
10. Peso Pluma - 10.54B (2023)
11. BTS - 10B+ (2026) 🔥🔥
I am voting for #BTS for #2026MAMAVOTE
For those who don't know back in 2018
Organization of the United Kpopers - declared the ARMY expelled from the K-pop community.
Since then we celebrate oct 14th as our Independence Day 💜
Today is our 8th anniversary of #ARMYIndependenceDay
.@bts_bighit’s “Arirang” surpassed 5 billion Spotify streams on Oct. 14. 💜
Released March 20, the LP has 14 tracks that have each passed 200 million streams, with main track “Swim” nearing 1 billion.
#BTS#ARIRANG#SWIM
@AboutMusicYT Mind you BTS generated over 340M from their shows in vegas alone and had the whole city turned into a BTS themed city Why the fuck would they share the stage with 80 other artists? 😭💀
Imagine the CEO of Coachella literally flying to your country JUST to personally sign you for a Coachella performance 😭😭
But then your own concert is bigger than Coachella, so you don’t even need Coachella for exposure
Meanwhile, K-pop stans will still swear up and down every single day that BTS “isn’t that big” and that their nugu faves who performed on some tiny Coachella stage are somehow bigger than BTS
Like I said, BTS is the biggest artist of this century 😌
@AboutMusicYT BTS declining the Grammys and Coachella proves they don't need industry validation. Instead of chasing Western accolades, they chose their tour and the ARMYs who stood by them. Walking away from the biggest stages is the ultimate power move. 💜 #BTS
Arirang by BTS is the best selling album of 2026 so far, with over 14.4 million units, according to chartmasters.
No other album has surpassed 6 million units this year yet.