{"id":516193,"date":"2026-06-24T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/516193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:05:18","slug":"bts-jung-kook-tops-3-bil-spotify-streams-with-seven-first-for-korean-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/516193\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Jung Kook tops 3 bil. Spotify streams with &#8216;Seven,&#8217; first for Korean artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/91aad52f-3fb3-4dd6-bb00-75b87e3a3e2e.jpg\" style=\"display: block;width: 300px;\" alt=\"Jung Kook of BTS \/ Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jung Kook of BTS \/ Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Seven,&#8221; a hit solo track by BTS member Jung Kook, has surpassed 3 billion streams on Spotify, making him the first Korean artist to hit the threshold with a single song, his agency BigHit Music said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Seven&#8221; is also the only song released in 2023 globally to reach the milestone, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">A passionate serenade about wanting to spend every day with a loved one, &#8220;Seven&#8221; blends a catchy melody with a warm acoustic guitar sound and rhythms from UK garage, a genre of electronic music that emerged in Britain in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The song&#8217;s music video surpassed 600 million views on YouTube in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Since its release, &#8220;Seven&#8221; has enjoyed worldwide success, debuting at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reaching No. 3 on the British Official Singles Chart Top 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">K-pop supergroup BTS, to which Jungkook belongs, is currently on its largest-ever scale world tour, &#8220;Arirang.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jung Kook of BTS \/ Yonhap &#8220;Seven,&#8221; a hit solo track by BTS member Jung Kook, has surpassed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-516193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}