NewJeans’ “OMG” Surpasses 600 Million Streams On Spotify

NewJeans’ ‘OMG’ surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify. This is the first New Jeans song to surpass 600 million streams on Spotify.

According to Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, on February 5, New Jeans’ (Minzy, Hani, Daniel, Haerin, Hyein) single album ‘OMG’ and the title song of the same name ‘OMG’ sold 605,585,422 as of the 3rd. It was played again. ‘OMG’, which was released in early January last year, is a lively and exciting hip-hop R&B song that mixes UK garage rhythm and trap rhythm.

As soon as it was released, this song swept the first and second places on major domestic music charts along with the song ‘Ditto’ from the same album, and became so popular around the world that it reached the ‘Hot 100’ on the US Billboard main song chart. Even after a year, this song remains at the top of the domestic charts and is showing off its strong presence by charting on the US Billboard’s ‘Global (excluding the US)’ latest chart (as of February 3) for 56 weeks.

New Jeans has a total of 10 Spotify streaming songs worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including ‘OMG’. ‘Ditto’ was played more than 500 million times, ‘Super Shy’ and ‘Hype Boy’ were played more than 400 million times each, ‘Attention’ was played more than 300 million times, ‘Cookie’ was played more than 200 million times, ‘Hurt’ and ‘New’ were played more than 200 million times. Jeans’, ‘ETA’, and ‘Cool With You’ were each streamed more than 100 million times. In addition, the combined cumulative number of streams on Spotify for all songs released by New Genes so far is approximately 3.6 billion.

Meanwhile, New Jeans won ‘Musician of the Year’, ‘Album of the Year (‘Get Up’)’, ‘Song of the Year (‘Ditto’)’, and ‘Best K-Pop Album’ at the ’21st Korean Popular Music Awards’. (‘Get Up’)’ and ‘Best K-Pop Song (‘Ditto’)’, and were nominated for awards in five categories, becoming the artist with the most nominations. The ‘Korean Popular Music Awards’ is an awards ceremony based on musical achievements rather than popularity and sales, and the selection committee consists of pop music critics, music reporters and producers, and music content planners. This year’s awards ceremony will be broadcast live on an online platform on the 29th.