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Hi Matt!
Yes, we have set up an API with QQ to know if the parent stream has streams or not. As If It's Your Last has 14 music videos available, 10 of which with a parent album that is streamable in audio (so the track is streamable too):
ID - Views - Parent album - Streamable
q0024s14h1j 252838 BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 "SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA" No
i00265ff44q 580 749 BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 "SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA" No
m00240pahpk 23 047 857 As If It's Your Last Yes
n0024qulvk8 268 672 As If It's Your Last Yes
m0024av5f69 381 991 As If It's Your Last Yes
a0024zf44k8 263 934 As If It's Your Last Yes
k00245dfukx 267 150 As If It's Your Last Yes
t0024iocybi 306 882 As If It's Your Last Yes
a0024vrekgu 338 418 As If It's Your Last Yes
a0024r2an32 374 851 As If It's Your Last Yes
n00245cq4dt 652 605 As If It's Your Last Yes
k0024tux7sa 6 055 065 As If It's Your Last Yes
r0024u0fn70 578 963 BLACKPINK No
x0025o243h7 30 636 BLACKPINK 2019-2020 WORLD TOUR IN YOUR AREA -TOKYO DOME- (Live) No
As for How You Like That, it has only one video, with the parent album being the single itself, which isn't streamable:
a0034nkz1ak 50 523 077 How You Like That No
It's not a surprise, it is the standard situation to not be available for stream when a song iss available through paid-for downloads as it's the case with HYLT.
Twice would have a nice score, but it wouldn't be that much greater than their total physical sales (which is huge), since their streaming is abysmal.
As I said, we never even said that TWICE would be above BP. It seems as if you're a twice anti.
Don't underestimate their streaming results. They're one of the best K-pop acts streaming wise.
I havent looked deep into it but I think the difference between Bp and Twice is not that big mainly due to them having like 3x the amount of releases and their biggest hits happening when downloads were still a thing in korea. I suspect both are closer than we think (and snsd too) but Blackpink will eventually have a huge lead over both considering their massive album sales and spotify numbers lately
Hi! You can use both MelOn and Genie streaming figures, MelOn (South Korea's biggest online music provider) started disclosing song streaming figures starting from December last year.
MelOn and Genie streams vary so much, and I think it may be a nice addition to the criteria 🙂 This is BLACKPINK's overall and individual stream figures on MelOn: https://xn--o39an51b2re.com/melon/artiststream/995169
If you want to see other artists as well, try this website: guyso.me (its in Korean so you may need to turn on google translate)
TWICE from debut until 2018, their songs have sold well, with all of their singles from debut to Yes or Yes surpassing more than 2.5m digital downloads in Korea and 100m streams on Gaon
Also may I ask why Whistle - DDU-DU DDU-DU download figures are so low? They have five songs that surpassed more than 2,500,000 digital downloads in Korea (Whistle, Playing With Fire, AIIYL, D4, Forever Young).. Are they not included? or maybe discounted?
Hi Ludaluda!
This has already been answered, downloads are only eligible up to the end of 2017 since the downloads aren't real downloads after that. We already discussed the MelOn figures too, and we purposedly ignore them as many older tracks have ridiculously inflated numbers due to bots. Genie numbers are cleaner.
