{"id":345180,"date":"2026-03-24T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:43:08","slug":"bts-arirang-shakes-spotify-110m-streams-in-24-hours-swim-retains-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345180\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS \u2018Arirang\u2019 Shakes Spotify: 110M Streams in 24 Hours, SWIM Retains Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4\">Domestic markets have also responded positively alongside the global acceptance. As of March 23, <a class=\"font-bold underline decoration-[#f52341]\" href=\"https:\/\/respawn.outlookindia.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/bts-swim-hits-3m-in-19-mins-ahead-of-jimmy-fallon-show-appearance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swim<\/a> remained at number one on Melon&#8217;s Top 100 and daily charts, with four more tracks joining it to make up half of the top ten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">This achievement comes as global recorded music revenues continue to rise, fueled by a combination of streaming and high-volume physical sales. As the industry&#8217;s release cycles become increasingly pressed into enormous first-week periods, BTS has used Arirang to establish a new peak demand threshold. They have demonstrated that in 2026, the junction between collector-driven physicals and rapid global streaming access remains the most powerful force in the industry, with the greatest brand value found in the balance between heritage and global magnitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Domestic markets have also responded positively alongside the global acceptance. As of March 23, Swim remained at number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[183966,183971,183969,183967,156,183970,157,111,139,69,183968],"class_list":["post-345180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts-arirang-110-million-first-day-spotify-streams","tag-bts-arirang-storms-spotify","tag-bts-kevin-parker-diplo-collaboration-body-to-body-analysis","tag-bts-swim-no-1-global-top-songs-spotify-14-6m","tag-entertainment","tag-k-pop-corridor-marketing-strategy-2026-east-to-west","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oricon-japan-bts-arirang-first-day-sales-record-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}