HYBE and Geffen Records' global girl group KATSEYE will be releasing their music on Spotify, the world's largest music platform.
According to Spotify on the 8th (local time), the total number of streams of the 13 songs released by KATSYE so far exceeded 1 billion.
, surpassing 1 billion views. This record comes just one year and one month after their debut. The songs on their second EP, "BEAUTIFUL CHAOS," gained immense popularity and streams increased.
"Gabriela," recorded on this album, achieved 100 million streams in just 38 days after its release, making it the fastest song by "KATSEYE" to reach that number.
"KATSEYE" continues to rise in major global charts. On the same day, the latest UK official chart (dated August 8th to 14th) showed that "Gabriel"
"ela" re-entered the rankings at 97th place. Spotify is also showing remarkable momentum. In Spotify's "Weekly Top Songs Global" (based on calculations from August 1st to 7th),
"Gabriela" rose three places from the previous week to 28th place, and "Gnarly" rose a whopping 14 places to 87th place.
On the August 7th chart, "Gabriela" ranked 24th and "Gnarly" ranked 80th, up four and six places respectively from the previous day.
The explosive live performances of "KATSEYE" have played a part in their popularity as they have been "running backwards on the charts."
They appeared at Lollapalooza Chicago, a music festival known as the "stage of dreams," and delivered an energetic performance for about 40 minutes, which became a hot topic on social media such as YouTube.
The film has attracted a lot of attention. It has received not only enthusiastic reactions from tens of thousands of spectators, but also positive reviews from local media and critics. The popularity and status of "KATSEYE" has gone beyond the US and into the global market.
The six members (Daniela, Lara, Manon, Meghan, Sophia, and Yunchae) were awarded the Grammy Award at the Recording Academy of America, which administers the Grammy Awards, last month.
Voting membership qualifies an artist to participate in the Grammy Awards selection process and is one of the indicators of an artist's influence in the American music industry.
KATSEYE will be performing at SUMMER SONIC 2025 and SUMMER SONIC EXTRA, which will be held in Tokyo from August 16th to 18th.
