NMIXX Claims Double Crown with “Blue Valentine”; DAY6 and aespa Top YouTube Music Streams

On the Circle Chart (formerly Gaon Chart) weekly chart for November 2–8, NMIXX dominated both the digital chart and the streaming chart with “Blue Valentine,” demonstrating their strong dominance in music releases. On the album chart, Yeonjun of TXT’s solo mini-album “No Labels: Part 01” reached first place with the regular version, while the Weverse limited edition came in fifth. Miyeon of IVE made her debut by securing third place with “My Lover.” In the music download chart, ISEKAI IDOL led with “Bee My Light” (1st place) and “Nameless” (2nd place), followed by Yeonjun’s “Talk to You” (3rd place) and Miyeon’s “Say My Name” (5th place). On the social media chart, TWICE retained first place, with LE SSERAFIM and BLACKPINK holding second and third places respectively. The Global K-POP chart was dominated by tracks from “KPop Demon Hunters,” with “Golden” by Hunter/X staying at first place. According to YouTube Music Korea’s 2025 statistics, in the male idol category, DAY6 took an overwhelming first place with 564 million streams, followed by BIGBANG (444 million), G-Dragon (429 million), Wooz (212 million), and BTS (23 million). In the female idol category, aespa claimed the title of female idol with the most streams at 537 million, with IU (458 million), IVE (356 million), NewJeans (321 million), and Rosé (280 million) ranking in the top spots. Notably, Jimin of BTS’s “Hoo” became the most streamed song by a K-POP artist in seven countries—South Korea, Bulgaria, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Singapore, and Latvia—on Spotify, achieving a first and only milestone for a K-POP singer. Jimin is also the first artist to have both “Hoo” (83 million streams) and “Like Crazy” (50 million streams) on the Spotify South Korea chart reach over 50 million streams. On the global chart, “Hoo” reached 2 billion streams on Spotify 461 days after its release, becoming the first and only solo song by an Asian artist to accomplish this. It also achieved the highest performance for K-POP on the U.S. chart with 430 million streams, while showing global influence by surpassing 100 million streams in the charts of Brazil, Japan, and Thailand as well.