BTS, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Stray Kids were the most streamed Korean artists of 2020

Seven-member superband BTS, which released megahits 'Dynamite' and 'ON' in 2020, was the most streamed Korean artiste and global group last year, streaming giant Spotify said on Thursday.
The streaming portal's 2020 Wrapped data, compiled between January 1 and November 15, 2020. also showed that the top 10 most streamed Korean artistes logged a combined 10.6 billion streams in a sign of their growing clout around the world.
According to the report, following BTS, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Stray Kids and Red Velvet were among the five most-streamed Korean musicians.EXO, Seventeen, IU, NCT 127 and (G)I-DLE also ranked in the top 10.
K-pop soloists and members of popular groups like Girls Generation and BTS who have released solo material led the streaming race in a separate chart of most streamed K-pop female and male artistes.
Soloist IU topped the female K-pop artistes chart, followed by Taeyeon of Girls Generation, Chung Ha and Hwasa of Mamamoo. On the male artists' chart, Agust D, better known as Suga of BTS, ranked No. 1, followed by Zico of Block B and Baekhyun of EXO. BTS members RM, j-hope and V also made the top 10.
By genre, 'Any Song' by Zico, 'Candy' by Baekhyun and 'Sweet Night' by V for the popular TV series 'Itaewon Class' were the most streamed tracks in hip-hop, R&B and Korean OSTs, respectively.