BLACKPINK’s Lisa sets another record as her song “Money” reaches 1 billion streams on Spotify

MANILA, Philippines — Rapper Lisa of BLACKPINK set a new Guinness World Record as her hit track “Money” surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, a first for a K-pop track by a solo artist.

“Money” was Lisa’s second solo single, released last November 2021 as the B-side to her debut track “Lalisa,” and managed to rack up a billion streams on Spotify in less than two years.

The first K-pop artist’s track to reach a billion streams on Spotify was K-pop boy band BTS with “Dynamite,” and they repeated the feat with their songs “Butter,” “My Universe” with Coldplay and “Boy.” . with Luv” featuring Halsey.

The new record adds to Lisa’s collection as she is currently the most followed K-pop artist on Instagram with nearly 100 million followers, the first solo K-pop winner at the MTV Video Music Awards and Europe Music Awards, and the fastest female solo K-pop artist reaches one billion streams on Spotify.

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Interestingly, the most followed K-pop artists on Instagram after Lisa are her fellow BLACKPINK members Jennie, Jisoo and Rose, followed by all the members of BTS.

“Lalisa” broke the record for “Most Viewed Music Video on YouTube by a Solo Artist in 24 Hours” when it was released in 2021.

Meanwhile, BLACKPINK holds the records of “Most Streamed Girl Group on Spotify”, “First K-pop Group to Top the UK and US Album Charts”, “Highest Subscribers for a Group on YouTube” and “Most Viewed”. the band’s music channel on YouTube.”

The performance video of “Money” posted on BLACKPINK’s YouTube channel has received 906 million views at the time of publication, making it the second most-viewed video of an individual member’s track behind Jennie’s “Solo”, which currently has 963 million views.

BLACKPINK currently has six music videos that have received over a billion views. These are “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du”, “Kill This Love”, “Bumbaya”, “Like It’s Your Last” and two versions of “As You Like It”.

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