BTS' new single drops by 99.95% due to Spotify’s removal of streams

[Duolingo 160,511]

 

[Bronco 22,514]

That has to be an over correction.

There's no way its on 5k daily streams but the rest of the album tracks are 2 or more million daily streams  

[Duolingo 160,511]

8 minutes ago, Bronco said:

That has to be an over correction.

There's no way its on 5k daily streams but the rest of the album tracks are 2 or more million daily streams  

Spotify removes streams on the 1st of every month. Their song was released less than 2 weeks ago so -10.9M is  impressive 

[27monster27 15,628]

Nah that has to be some kind of mistake. If not, then this furthers my theory that different companies directly like to manipulate chart positions.

[Jill 31,569]

this has beyonce written all over it, i never trusted her

[River 125,531]

16 minutes ago, 27monster27 said:

Nah that has to be some kind of mistake. If not, then this furthers my theory that different companies directly like to manipulate chart positions.

true, as long as you know who never gets this kind of treatment and we all know about the streaming farms, then yes, there is a chart manipulation.

[NemoMyName 1,960]

BTS being the fraud they are since their early days in korea, no wonder Scooter left the ship, its already sinking.

[Charliie 1,946]

TS is next 

[LGAte 696]

Honestly half the charts are a fraud. Thats why nothing feels like a hit anymore and people don’t come together over music.

 

remember when you used to go to a bar and a song would come on and everyone would join in and be singing together? 
 

that doesn’t happen too often anymore sadly.

[InTheCloset 21,722]

FAT JUICY AND WET

 

[DESTROY UR DISEASE 19,070]

15 minutes ago, InTheCloset said:

FAT JUICY AND WET

 

eww no thank u

[RAMROD 116,066]

2 hours ago, Charliie said:

TS is next 

She never use bots, I fear

[Charliie 1,946]

1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

She never use boots, I fear

[Jill 31,569]

On 4/2/2026 at 4:49 PM, LGAte said:

Honestly half the charts are a fraud. Thats why nothing feels like a hit anymore and people don’t come together over music.

not really, it's more like we transitioned into a content-led culture and we have too many things at the same time, catered to a million different niches and tastes led by a million different versions of the same algorithms. we sanctified customization, which is a form of extreme capitalist individualization. for a song to be a true global hit nowadays is very difficult, almost impossible, for this reason.

[Future Lovers 7,382]

3 hours ago, Jill said:

not really, it's more like we transitioned into a content-led culture and we have too many things at the same time, catered to a million different niches and tastes led by a million different versions of the same algorithms. we sanctified customization, which is a form of extreme capitalist individualization. for a song to be a true global hit nowadays is very difficult, almost impossible, for this reason.

Thank you. The idea that the charts are largely fraudulent is massive cope from people who don’t like seeing artists they’re not fans of do well. People simply engage with pop culture differently than they used to. It isn’t widespread fraud or chart manipulation, it’s that monoculture doesn’t really exist anymore and thus success is primarily led by fan communities.