CORTIS have done it again, and this time the number is a big one: the group has passed 1.5 billion cumulative streams on Spotify, just 15 months after debuting.
BIGHIT MUSIC announced on Thursday that CORTIS’s released songs had reached a total of 1,500,550,000 streams on Spotify as of November 10, Yonhap reported. That total covers just 16 tracks: 15 from the group’s first two mini albums, plus ‘Mention Me’, their song for the animated film ‘GOAT’, The Korea Herald noted. Around 1.2 billion of those streams have come this year alone, and BIGHIT MUSIC says it is the highest total, reached in the shortest time, for any K-pop boy group that debuted in the past five years.
‘REDRED’, the lead single from the second EP ‘GREENGREEN’, is doing the heavy lifting with more than 276 million streams, and Yonhap reports it is on track to pass 300 million within the year. Star News reported the per-song split behind it: ‘GO!’ has passed 267 million and ‘FaSHioN’ 248 million, while ‘JoyRide’ (over 120 million) and ‘What You Want’ (119 million) have both cleared 100 million.
The audience keeps growing, too: CORTIS’s monthly Spotify listeners peaked at 12,947,465 on August 27, which BIGHIT MUSIC said is the third-highest peak for a K-pop boy group, with listeners in the United States making up the largest share. It builds on the group’s sweep earlier this month, when ‘REDRED,’ ‘GO!’ and ‘FaSHioN’ took the top three spots among songs by boy groups that debuted in the past five years.
