The title “How sweet” from the group NEWJEANS surpassed 300 million streams on the Spotify platform.
According to Spotify on July 30, the title song of the same name from the double single of NEWJEANS “HOW SWEET” was played a cumulative total of 302,620,152 times as of the 25th. Thanks to this, NEWJEANS finds itself in possession of its 9th song with 300 million streams in total in its career.
“How sweet”, released on May 24, 2024, is a hip-hop style song based on Miami Bass. At the time of its publication, it entered the top ranks of major Korean music charts such as Melon, Genie, and Bugs, and entered for 13 consecutive weeks in the “Global 200” chart of Billboard in the United States. In addition, it also rose to 7th place in the “Most Popular Song of the Year” published by YouTube Korea.
The title “How sweet” from the group NEWJEANS surpassed 300 million streams on the global sound and audio mining platform Spotify.
The total number of cumulative streams of NEWJEANS on Spotify is approaching 8 billion times. “Ditto” and “OMG” were played more than 900 million times each, “Super shy” more than 800 million times, and “Hype boy” more than 700 million times. “New jeans” and “Attention” record more than 500 million times, “ETA” more than 400 million times, and “Cookie” as well as “How sweet” more than 300 million times. Next, “Hurt”, “Cool with you”, and “Supernatural” were streamed more than 200 million times, while “ASAP”, “Get up”, “Bubble gum”, and “Right now” were streamed more than 100 million times each.
However, one cannot be completely optimistic. In the case of the song “How sweet” which surpassed 300 million, it currently finds itself involved in a plagiarism feud in the United States. American producer and singer-songwriter Audrey Amacost and 3 other people filed a complaint with the United States District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that the copyrights of their work “One of a kind” were infringed. They filed an official lawsuit for copyright infringement against HYBE, ADOR, the members of NEWJEANS, as well as BANA, considered the key partner of Min Heejin’s musical group, and the composer 250.
According to their claims, BANA, who was in charge of the composition and production of “How sweet”, sent an instrumental track via the American publisher Pulse Music to request topline work, and 4 people including Audrey Amacost created and sent together a topline, but it was not selected. However, they stressed that the topline they had created was used in “How sweet” published subsequently, and that the names of Min Heejin as general producer and representative Kim Ki Hyun of BANA as A&R manager appear in the credits.
Regarding this, ADOR stated: ““The sound source causing the problem is a song obtained via BANA, selected by the representative at the time Min Heejin, and we are examining internal documents regarding whether representative Min had properly conducted the verification of the similarity of the sound source at that time.”“
Journalist: Shawn
Translator: Shawn
Source: SNS NEWJEANS
