K-pop superstars BLACKPINK become the most streamed female band on Spotify

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K-pop superstars BLACKPINK become the most streamed female band on Spotify

By Giulia Heyward

Published March 8, 2023 at 2:33 PM EST

BLACKPINK, seen performing at the 2022 MTV VMAs, are now the most streamed female band on Spotify.

BLACKPINK fans did it again.

According to Guinness World Records, the massively popular girl group became the most-streamed female band on Spotify on Wednesday.

With 8.8 billion streams, reached the new high-water mark on Wednesday, beating out previous titleholders Little Mix, a British-based group, . Some of BLACKPINK's most popular tracks include "How You Like That," "Kill This Love" and "DDU-DU DDU-DU."

The members of the group 鈥� Ros茅, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo 鈥� as K-pop, short for Korean popular music, has continued over the past decade to amass a significant following around the world.

K-pop emerged in the mid- to late-1990s, spurred in part by a newfound focus on cultural exportation in South Korea 鈥� with BLACKPINK and high-profile acts like and EXO becoming in the United States and online.

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— Guinness World Records (@GWR)

BLACKPINK is no stranger to record-breaking popularity. It also holds the record for the first female K-pop group and the first female K-pop group .

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Giulia Heyward

Giulia Heyward is a weekend reporter for Digital News, based out of New York. She previously covered education and other national news as a reporting fellow at The New York Times and as the national education reporter at Capital B News. She interned for POLITICO, where she covered criminal justice reform in Florida, and CNN, as a writer for the trends & culture team. Her work has also been published in The Atlantic, HuffPost and The New Republic.

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K-pop superstars BLACKPINK become the most streamed female band on Spotify