- By Tapapriya Dutta
- Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:08 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
BTS is one the most popular Kpop bands in the world, which has broken several records and received plenty of accolades. Not only as a team but also individually Jungkook, Jimin, Jin, Jhope, Suga, RM and V have achieved several milestones. But this time, they created a history as a team. Want to know how? Adding one more feather to their cap, their song Fake Love from the 2018 album Love Yourself: Tear crossed 900 million streams on popular music platforms. ARMY on social media has flooded with congratulatory messages and not only that they plan to stream till the song reaches 1 Billion.
After this, BTS became the first group and the Asian act in history to have 6 songs with over 900 million streams on Spotify. Wait this is not the end, they also became the first group and only Asian act in history to have 73 songs which surpassed 200 million streams on Spotify. Coming back to Fake Love, it is from 2018 album Love Yourself: Tear which has 11 songs. The album includes songs like intro : singularity, fake love, the truth untold, 134340, paradise, love maze, magic shop, airplane, pt.2, anpanman, so what and outro : tear.
"FAKE LOVE" has surpassed 900 Million streams on Spotify; becomes their 6th song to achieve so. And Thus, BTS becomes the FIRST Group & the ASIAN Act in history to have 6 songs with over 900M streams on Spotify❤️🔥
— BANGTAN DELIGHT ¹⁰ HOTS ❤️🔥BTS YEAR 💜 (@Lovly_mochitwin) February 26, 2025
CONGRATULATIONS BTS#FakeLove900Mpic.twitter.com/3fJlonbFMa
Fake Love surpassed 900M on spotify. FINALLY. STREAM THE SONG TO GET TO 1B🔜🤩
— Re⁷૮ • ﻌ - ა🖤 (@prorider777) February 26, 2025
CONGRATULATIONS BTS#BTS pic.twitter.com/zEG1SCQrfc
"Fake Love" by BTS has now surpassed 900 MILLION Streams on Spotify,
— ⁷ (@Pk_bts_land) February 26, 2025
→ BTS's 6th Song to reach this milestone!
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
FAKE LOVE 900M#FakeLove900M pic.twitter.com/6U9lEgpya6
BTS now becomes the FIRST GROUP and FIRST KOREAN ACT and ONLY ASIAN ACT in history to have 73 songs surpassing 200 Million Streams on Spotify.
— ⁷ (@Pk_bts_land) February 26, 2025
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
BTS PAVED THE WAY
BTS THE LEGENDS pic.twitter.com/PQ4Zylg70f
Congratulations BTS!
— Chrys⁷ BTS YEAR (@BTSpersona22) February 26, 2025
Next goal-> 1 Billion streams!pic.twitter.com/4uFRl5ZJdV https://t.co/7ys3VzLbzx
"FAKE LOVE" by @BTS_twt now hits 900 Million streams on Spotify, becoming their 6th song to do so..
— min⁷☆ᴮᵗˢ ʸᵉᵃʳ (@Gvlbangtan7) February 26, 2025
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
BTS PAVED THE WAY#FakeLove900M#FakeLoveTo1B pic.twitter.com/u67MWOirMj
Notably, Love Yourself: Tear became the sixth overall studio album of the popular Kpop band. The concept of the album explores emotions like pain and sorrow during separation. In May 2018, the album debuted at the top position on the US Billboard 200. It earned 135,000 album-equivalent units, which gave them another height as it became their highest charting album in a western market at that time. It also became the first Korean album to the top the charts of US albums and the highest charting album by an Asian Act.