{"id":138661,"date":"2025-03-02T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=138661"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:34:27","slug":"k-netizens-accuse-bts-jimin-of-spotify-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/k-netizens-accuse-bts-jimin-of-spotify-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Netizens accuse BTS\u2019 Jimin of Spotify fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kpop industry has earned a big role in the music scene because of the amazing performances and catchy beats of the idol\u2019s songs. One of the most popular idols nowadays is undeniably <strong>BTS<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Jimin<\/strong>, particularly since he released his sophomore album, MUSE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jimin\u2019s song, <em>\u201cWHO,\u201d<\/em> has garnered a greater audience, particularly in the United States, where the song has maintained a stable presence on the Billboard Hot 100. However<strong>, K-netizens and pop fans have accused Jimin of Spotify fraud<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Who-recently-lose-100-million-streams-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last month, BTS\u2019s fans, better known as ARMY, were outraged after Spotify deleted over 52 million streams of Jimin\u2019s latest single, \u201cWHO.\u201d However, the controversy has reignited again after On March 1st, the song lost 42 million streams,<strong> accumulating almost 100 million streams who were removed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, K-Netizens believe the song is <strong>not doing organic numbers<\/strong> and accuse the idol of using <strong>streaming farms<\/strong> to stay relevant. On the other hand, ARMY is defending Jimin and asking Spotify for a genuine answer about the controversy. What do you think?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spotify has once again deleted almost 50 MILLION streams from Jimin\u2019s \u201cWHO\u201d.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the song that lost the most amount of fraudulent-detected streams ever (over 110 MILLION).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udc97 (@lostincrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lostincrave\/status\/1896253183984582810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kpop industry has earned a big role in the music scene because of the amazing performances and catchy beats of the idol\u2019s songs. One of the most popular idols nowadays is undeniably BTS\u2019s Jimin, particularly since he released his sophomore album, MUSE.\u201d Jimin\u2019s song, \u201cWHO,\u201d has garnered a greater audience, particularly in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":138662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,931],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-jimin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138661"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=138661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}