{"id":881768,"date":"2026-10-14T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881768\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:54:13","slug":"bts-hits-5b-spotify-streams-with-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881768\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS hits 5b Spotify streams with \u2018Arirang\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/news-p.v1.20261014.0591adad982e4d22877be2e374271e6f_P1.jpg\" alt=\"(Credit: Big Hit Music)\"\/>     (Credit: Big Hit Music)  <\/p>\n<p>BTS clocked 5 billion streams on Spotify with its fifth studio album, \u201cArirang,\u201d Big Hit Music announced Wednesday, citing platform data.<\/p>\n<p>It recorded the most plays on Spotify among albums released this year.<\/p>\n<p>All 14 tracks from \u201cArirang,\u201d including the instrumental track \u201cNo. 29,\u201d which entirely consists of the sound of the South Korean Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok, have garnered more than 200 million streams.<\/p>\n<p>The LP generated over 110 million plays on the day of release and claimed the top 14 spots on Spotify\u2019s global songs chart.<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/news-p.v1.20261014.9c2d2a1431be446cadf558a1f81679df_P1.jpg\" alt=\"(Credit: Big Hit Music)\"\/>     (Credit: Big Hit Music)  <\/p>\n<p>Separately, V\u2019s solo single \u201cSlow Dancing\u201d exceeded 600 million plays, becoming the artist\u2019s fourth solo endeavor to do so. The R&amp;B number fronted his first solo album, \u201cLayover,\u201d from 2023 and debuted on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 at No. 51.<\/p>\n<p>BTS is set to have shows in Santiago, Chile on Oct. 14, 16 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>glamazon@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Big Hit Music) BTS clocked 5 billion streams on Spotify with its fifth studio album, \u201cArirang,\u201d Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[343,88,340,339,216,341,342,338,347,348,346],"class_list":["post-881768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-asia-news","tag-entertainment","tag-koreaherald","tag-korean-news","tag-music","tag-south-korea-news","tag-south-korea-news-in-english","tag-the-korea-herald","tag-347","tag-348","tag-346"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}