SEOUL - K-pop girl group NewJeans continues to take the world by storm, with their releases recently showing a steady yet significant growth in the American music market. OMG and Ditto were the most-streamed songs on Spotify in the United States among all regions, the...
OMG entered Spotify Global’s weekly top song chart at No. 95. It has since been hitting highs almost every week, marking No. 30, No. 24, No. 21 and No. 16 in the weeks that followed.
In January, the act rewrote history on Billboard as the fastest K-pop act to make multiple entries on the Hot 100 chart when OMG joined Ditto on the rundown of the most popular songs.
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