NewJeans’ “How Sweet” Reaches 300 Million Spotify Streams – Ninth Song to Hit That Milestone

NewJeans’ “How Sweet” has attained 300 million streams on the global music streaming platform Spotify. This marks the group’s ninth track to reach this streaming milestone. Released on May 24, 2024, the song is a hip-hop style track based on Miami Bass. Meanwhile, copyright infringement allegations have arisen in the United States regarding this track.

As of the 25th, “How Sweet” had accumulated 302,621,520 streams in total. With this achievement, NewJeans now has nine songs that have reached 300 million streams. The group’s overall cumulative Spotify streams approach 8 billion. The streaming numbers for their major tracks are as follows: “Ditto” and “OMG” each have over 900 million streams, “Super Shy” has over 800 million streams, and “Hype Boy” has over 700 million streams. “NewJeans” and “Attention” have over 500 million streams, “ETA” has over 400 million streams, and “Cookie” has over 300 million streams.

Upon release, “How Sweet” received immediate response in South Korea’s music market. It topped the charts on major music platforms such as Melon, Genie, and Bugs. It also made it onto the U.S. Billboard “Global 200” chart for 13 consecutive weeks. The track was ranked seventh in Korea YouTube’s “Most Popular Songs of the Year” poll, demonstrating its global impact.

However, “How Sweet” faced copyright infringement allegations in the United States. Four individuals, including American producer and singer-songwriter Audrey Amakosh, filed a lawsuit in the Central District Court of California, claiming that their song “One of a Kind” had its rights violated. They filed the lawsuit against HYBE, Audrey Amakosh, NewJeans members, as well as producer Bana and composer 250.

The production process went as follows: Bana sent an instrumental track through the American publishing company Pulse Music and requested that a top line (vocal melody) be created. Audrey Amakosh and the other three individuals accepted this request and produced the top line, but they claimed their version was not adopted. They pointed out that their top line was used in the ultimately released “How Sweet,” and that Minhee Jin was listed as the executive producer while Kim Ki-hyun, Bana’s representative, was listed as the A&R director.

Audrey Amakosh stated, “The track in question is one obtained through Bana, who was selected by then-CEO Minhee Jin. We are currently reviewing internal documents to determine whether any checks for musical similarity were conducted.”