BTS’s Jimin Sets Major Record with ‘Who’, Fastest Asian Song to Hit 1.8 Billion Streams on Spotify

BTS’s Jimin has once again proven his immense global popularity by achieving another major milestone on Spotify.

According to Spotify’s latest update as of June 26, Jimin’s solo second album title track “Who” from MUSE has surpassed 1.8 billion streams. This remarkable achievement was reached in just 343 days since its release on July 19, 2024, making it the fastest song by any Asian artist to reach the milestone — highlighting Jimin’s tremendous streaming power.

Who now holds the sixth-fastest record in Spotify history to hit 1.8 billion streams, following:

• Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’s Die With A Smile (178 days)

• Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather (233 days)

• Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso (271 days)

• Harry Styles’s As It Was (288 days)

• The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber’s Stay (314 days)

Despite no international collaborations, active promotions, or official activities, Who has maintained steady popularity for over 11 months and continues to break records.

From June 20 to 26, Who climbed eight spots to rank 13th on Spotify’s Global Weekly Top Songs chart, marking its 49th consecutive week on the chart. It also re-entered Spotify’s U.S. Weekly Top Songs chart at No. 128, logging its 47th week there. In Korea, it remained No.1 for 49 straight weeks on the Spotify Korea Weekly Top Songs chart — extending its record as the most weeks at No.1 in the chart’s history.

Meanwhile, the official music video for Who has surpassed 114 million views on YouTube. On the global music discovery app Shazam, the song has been searched over 1.24 million times, and on Korean streaming platform Melon, it has exceeded 45 million streams, proving its widespread popularity across both domestic and international platforms.

Written by Mun Wan Sik

Translated by Lee So Yun 

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