BTS’ Jimin breaks world record for fastest solo K-pop artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify
Guinness World Records officially declared that BTS’ Jimin broke the record on music streaming service Spotify.
According to Guinesss, Jimin set a new record for “the fastest solo K-pop artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify (male) in just 393 days.”
BTS' Jimin (Instagram)
Fellow BTS member Jungkook earlier set the same record two months ago in 409 days but Jimin set it 16 days shorter. “Jimin’s six-track EP Face was uploaded to Spotify on 24 March and was the catalyst for his surge in popularity, with support from the singles ‘With You’ (feat. Ha Sung-woon), ‘VIBE’ (TAEYANG feat. Jimin), ‘Set Me Free Pt. 2’ and ‘Angel Pt. 1’ (feat. Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, JVKE & Muni Long). He also had a five-track EP titled Like Crazy and even released singles ‘Promise’ (2018) and ‘Christmas Love’ (2020) exclusively on Soundcloud,” according to Guinness World Records. It added, “As aforementioned, Jungkook set the record two months before with just three songs released to the public.” BTS have broken records in 2023 despite not releasing music. “Their music has been streamed a massive 31,960,000,000 times as of 3 March, making them the most streamed male group on Spotify,” Guinness said. This year, BTS set the world records for the most followers on Instagram for a music group, most followers on Twitter for a music group and most followers on TikTok for a music group “They already hold records for the most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours, most streamed track on Spotify in the first 24 hours and becoming the first K-pop act to reach No.1 on the US albums chart,” it said.

Fellow BTS member Jungkook earlier set the same record two months ago in 409 days but Jimin set it 16 days shorter. “Jimin’s six-track EP Face was uploaded to Spotify on 24 March and was the catalyst for his surge in popularity, with support from the singles ‘With You’ (feat. Ha Sung-woon), ‘VIBE’ (TAEYANG feat. Jimin), ‘Set Me Free Pt. 2’ and ‘Angel Pt. 1’ (feat. Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, JVKE & Muni Long). He also had a five-track EP titled Like Crazy and even released singles ‘Promise’ (2018) and ‘Christmas Love’ (2020) exclusively on Soundcloud,” according to Guinness World Records. It added, “As aforementioned, Jungkook set the record two months before with just three songs released to the public.” BTS have broken records in 2023 despite not releasing music. “Their music has been streamed a massive 31,960,000,000 times as of 3 March, making them the most streamed male group on Spotify,” Guinness said. This year, BTS set the world records for the most followers on Instagram for a music group, most followers on Twitter for a music group and most followers on TikTok for a music group “They already hold records for the most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours, most streamed track on Spotify in the first 24 hours and becoming the first K-pop act to reach No.1 on the US albums chart,” it said.
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— Guinness World Records (@GWR) May 26, 2023