In fact, one of their peers could be poised to ascend to the same stateside heights in 2020: Blackpink. In 2019, Blackpink earned 1.1 billion Spotify streams, a 168% boost over 2018, when they earned 410 million streams. It’s still a far cry from the 3 billion streams BTS earned in 2019, a 50% boost over 2 billion in 2018. If both groups continue on that trajectory in 2020, Blackpink will earn roughly 2.95 billion streams, while BTS will earn 4.5 billion. (Japanese studio album Blackpink in Your Area is technically a compilation of their previous works.)

Source: Forbes December 13, 2019 23:48 UTC