At the end of the year, major music applications such as Spotify, Apple Music … will release summaries as well as artists with impressive achievements in the past year. This time of 2022 is no exception. Recently, Spotify caused a storm when it announced the list of top names, including 2 familiar faces from K-pop, BTS and BLACKPINK .
However, a big controversy broke out after fans discovered that Lisa (BLACKPINK) was named in the category of K-pop solo artist with the most streams, while Jungkook (BTS) had the total number of streams. higher streams. If the fan data in hand is correct, the ‘youngest brother’ of BTS must stand at No.1 and main dancer ‘Hac Huong’ moves back to No.2.
Whether including songs with other artists or not, Lisa still ranks at No.2 instead of No.1 as Spotify announced previously.
Not letting the achievements slip away from the idols, Jungkook and BTS fans quickly questioned Spotify about the mismatched figures and rankings. After that, Spotify side corrected that the leader in the category of the most streamed K-pop artist globally in 2022 was Jungkook, not Lisa.
Also from here, a part of fans think that this online music application has a bias, favoring the ‘Thai doll’ in particular and the YG group in general. After that, residents continued to find Jérémy Erlich’s private account as well as posts expressing his love for BLACKPINK, especially Lisa and Rosé.
In case you didn’t know, Jérémy Erlich currently holds the position of head of music department of the world’s leading digital music distribution platform.
Jérémy Erlich once boasted that BLACKPINK is one of the 5 artists I listen to the most in 2022.
Not only often sharing and praising BLACKPINK, he himself also has a close relationship with the members.
Jérémy Erlich’s shares or posts praising BLACKPINK as well as Lisa on social media have become the cause of the explσsiσn of affection between this person and the ‘Thai doll’.
The matter went even further when some very angry netizens began to put together images that slαndҽrҽd the relationship between the two sides in a nҽgativҽ direction and questioned whether this is the reason why BLACKPINK became a ‘child’. darling’ of Spotify or not.
The ‘ᴜglγ’ images that turn the relationship between Jérémy Erlich and Lisa nҽgativҽ are being shared loudly on social networks.
Before the nҽgativҽ ᴛɪɴ itemsɴ related to their idols, Lisa fans immediately initiated the trend of asking ‘Sorry Lisa’ on Twitter. After that, many big and influential news sites in the Korean music community also reported on the incident.
Many major news sites spoke out about Lisa’s case.
The fans were outraged, asking Spotify as well as the person who released the fake to apologize to the female idol.