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BTS's j-hope becomes the first Korean solo artist to surpass 7 million followers on Spotify

Posted by moonhoya2,338 pts Saturday, August 21, 2021

BTS's j-hope has surpassed 7 million followers on Spotify, becoming the first and only Korean solo artist to achieve this.

Doing this, j-hope extends his record of being the most followed Korean Solo Artist.

On April 7, 2019, j-hope became the most followed Korean soloist on Spotify with 1,367,980 million followers, overtaking GD, who held 1,341,954 followers and the most-followed title at the time. j-hope has held this record for 2 years, 4 months, and 13 days. He was the first Korean Solo Artist to pass 2M, 3M, 4M, 5M, 6M, now 7M followers on the platform and with no promotion or physical albums! This is a spectacular achievement as he last released a single two years ago, Chicken Noodle Soup (feat Becky G), back in September 2019. Before that, his mixtape 'Hope World' in March 2018 was released for free on multiple platforms. j-hope has achieved 7 million followers with only 8 songs!

j-hope has a lot of "firsts" under his belt:

j-hope became the first Korean soloist to have an album/mixtape reach 100M, 200M, and 300M streams on Spotify with Hope World. Hope World achieved this despite still not being available on Spotify in Korea!
j-hope is the first and currently the only Korean soloist to have their debut album/mixtape have 300M streams.
j-hope is the first Korean soloist to have 8 songs surpass 50M streams on Spotify.
j-hope is currently the Korean soloist with the most songs with >50M streams on Spotify.
j-hope was the first Korean soloist to enter the top 200 most followed artists on Spotify. (source
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He is the first and only Korean Soloist in the top 5 most followed Korean artists on Spotify, following the groups: 1. BTS (37.35 million followers), 2. BLACKPINK (23.95 million followers), 3. TWICE (10 million followers), and 4. EXO (8.2 million followers).

This follows the recent achievement on August 16th, where he becomes the first and only Korean solo artist to enter the top 125 most followed Global Artists on Spotify.