"Who" by BTS' Jimin becomes the first song in Spotify's history to lose 176M streams

[Teletubby 144,198]

 

Songs most affected by Spotify adjustments

• BTS' Jimin - Who • 7,821,415 monthly listeners
Dec 1: -7,141,232
Jan 1: -10,558,584
Feb 1: -52,167,122
Mar 1: -42,764,256
Apr 1: -42,809,670
May 1: -21,236,482
total number of removed streams: -176,677,346

• BTS' Jin -  Running Wild • 3,421,585 monthly listeners
Jan 1: -10,812,459
Feb 1: -14,944,602
Mar 1:  -12,735,461
Apr 1:  -12,989,028
May 1: -9,099,919
total number of removed streams: -60,581,469

 

• BTS' V - Winter Ahead • 4,504,679 monthly listeners
Jan 1: -5,610,696
Feb 1: -21,075,597
Mar 1:  -12,249,866
Apr 1:  -12,109,193
May 1: -8,821,192
total number of removed streams: -59,866,544
 

• BTS' Jung Kook - Seven • 16,326,155 monthly listeners
Dec 1: -2,699,365
Jan 1: -6,886,656
Feb 1: -8,554,159
Mar 1: -6,841,216
Apr 1: -7,877,980
May 1: -9,529,188
total number of removed streams: -42,388,564

[Bully Pop 195]

What does this mean? I’ve heard of streams getting adjusted, why does it happen? Is it to take into account people who just sorta loop the song??? Is that even a thing anymore? 😂

[Murakami27 3,768]

[LOVEDRUG 10,431]

It's bizarre. This song wasn't even that huge amongst other K-pop fans. The mass-streaming effort for it has been obvious since day one.

[SimonBaetens 8,058]

9 minutes ago, Bully Pop said:

What does this mean? I’ve heard of streams getting adjusted, why does it happen? Is it to take into account people who just sorta loop the song??? Is that even a thing anymore? 😂

it filters out payola and click farms

[Teletubby 144,198]

2 minutes ago, Bully Pop said:

What does this mean? I’ve heard of streams getting adjusted, why does it happen? Is it to take into account people who just sorta loop the song??? Is that even a thing anymore? 😂

These are fraudulent streams from bots.  
Their songs chart high on Spotify charts in random countries such as Belarus, Chile, Paraguay, Latvia.

[NemoMyName 500]

The whole bts thing has been a sales fraud since the start, nothing new here 

[NemoMyName 500]

30 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

These are fraudulent streams from bots.  
Their songs chart high on Spotify charts in random countries such as Belarus, Chile, Paraguay, Latvia.

Excuse me, chile is not a random country, is the country with most listeners around the world, santiago appears in a lot of top 5 cities on spotify artists profiles, chile is literally in the top 5 listeners of lady gaga

[Teletubby 144,198]

12 minutes ago, NemoMyName said:

Excuse me, chile is not a random country, is the country with most listeners around the world, santiago appears in a lot of top 5 cities on spotify artists profiles, chile is literally in the top 5 listeners of lady gaga

i said random because there is no other kpop act on chart and his song is #1 with over 250k streams in Chile

Spotify has also charts for some cities and Jimin's song doesn't even chart in Santiago despite having #1 song in Chile:
https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/citytoptrack-santiago-weekly/latest

it just doesn't make sense as well as the fact that he has less than 8M monthly listeners but his song gets over 90M streams every month.