The song that heated up the first half of this year is Blackpink Jennie’s ‘like JENNIE’.

According to the global music platform Spotify on the 22nd, ‘Like Jennie’ was selected as the most listened to song by overseas fans excluding Korea among K -pop songs released from January to June of this year.

According to the ‘Global Impact List’ released by Spotify on this day, Jennie caught attention by including a total of 9 songs on the list, including ‘Like Jennie’.’ExtraL’ came in 3rd, ‘Love Hangover’ came in 5th, and ‘Handlebars’ came in 7th.

Following Jennie, second place went to BTS member Jin’s solo song ‘Don t Say You Love Me’.

Also, J-Hope’s “MONA LISA” and “Sweet Dreams” ranked 4th and 6th respectively.

‘earthquake’ by Blackpink member Jisoo, who was active around the same time as Jennie, is drawing attention by taking 8th place.

Among non-solo K-pop groups, Seraphim’s “HOT” ranked the highest at 9th, while Ive ranked 12th with “REBEL HEART.”


Reporter Lee Jeong- annjoy@donga.com

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