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BTS vs BLACKPINK: By the Numbers

방탄소년단 vs 블랙핑크: 숫자로 보는 비교

BTS and BLACKPINK side by side on 16 measurable metrics, each from one named source: Billboard chart history, YouTube and Spotify tallies, tour grosses and daesang. The figures are shown as they stand on November 11, 2026; the two groups' careers differ in length and size.

Data as of

The seven members of BTS standing on a grassy hill in the Dynamite music video
Pictured: BTS in the "Dynamite" music video, the group's most-viewed (2.15 billion views); BLACKPINK's most-viewed, "DDU-DU DDU-DU", is embedded in the Spotify section below.
BTS and BLACKPINK compared on 16 metrics, with the source and as-of date for each, as of November 11, 2026
Area Metric BTS
방탄소년단		 BLACKPINK
블랙핑크		 As of
ProfileAgencyBigHit Music, part of HYBE12YG Entertainment13—
ProfileDebutJune 12, 2013, with a single album12August 8, 2016, with a single album13—
ProfileMembers7: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, Jung Kook124: Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, Lisa13—
BillboardBillboard 200 No. 1 albums7113Nov 11, 2026
BillboardBillboard 200 top-10 albums9133Nov 11, 2026
BillboardHot 100 No. 1 songs7204Nov 11, 2026
BillboardHot 100 top-10 entries11204Nov 11, 2026
BillboardHighest Hot 100 peakNo. 1: "Dynamite" (2020), "Butter" (2021), "Swim" (2026) and others2No. 13: "Ice Cream" with Selena Gomez (2020)4Nov 11, 2026
YouTubeMost-viewed group music video"Dynamite": 2,163,938,246 views5"DDU-DU DDU-DU": 2,418,929,227 views6Nov 10, 2026
YouTubeGroup music videos with 1B+ views8576Nov 10, 2026
SpotifyMost-streamed song"Dynamite": 2,380,829,880 streams7"How You Like That": 1,304,678,504 streams8Nov 9–10, 2026
SpotifyStreams as lead artist51,196,653,593 (297 tracks)716,785,849,900 (105 tracks)8Nov 9–10, 2026
TouringHighest-grossing completed tourLove Yourself World Tour: $246.5M, 62 shows, 2018–199Born Pink World Tour: $330.0M, 66 shows, 2022–239Oct 11, 2026
TouringTour still runningArirang World Tour: $637.5M for the first 50 of 88 shows (partial, not compared)9—Oct 11, 2026
AwardsMAMA Awards daesang2110010Through 2025
AwardsMelon Music Awards daesang1311011Through 2025

Billboard rows count what each group's own Billboard chart-history page lists, so BTS's Hot 100 No. 1s include "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" and "My Universe" with Coldplay, which that page credits to BTS; a top-10 entry is a song peaking at No. 10 or higher.1234 YouTube and Spotify figures are kworb.net tallies (YouTube snapshots dated November 10, Spotify November 9 and 10, 2026) and move daily. "Group music videos" follows DabPop's scope for its most-viewed music videos ranking: official M/Vs credited to the group, not dance-performance, practice or solo videos.56 Spotify's "as lead" count is kworb's own column and covers the tracks listed on each artist's page, which number 297 for BTS and 105 for BLACKPINK.78 Tour grosses are Billboard Boxscore figures as compiled on Wikipedia for DabPop's tours ranking; a partial tour isn't compared with a completed one.9 Daesang counts come from DabPop's archives, which run through 2025.1011 Hanteo and Circle Chart sales aren't included: no like-for-like figures for both groups were opened. BTS debuted three years earlier and has three more members, so totals aren't scaled for that.

Metric by metric

1

Billboard 200 and Hot 100

Nov 10, 2026

BTS has seven No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 on its Billboard page, from Love Yourself: Tear (June 2, 2018) to ARIRANG, which was No. 1 for three weeks from April 4, 2026; it also lists nine top-10 albums in all.1 BLACKPINK's page lists one No. 1 album, Born Pink (October 1, 2022), and two more top-10 albums: The Album (No. 2, 2020) and Deadline (No. 8, 2026).3

On the Hot 100, BTS's page lists seven No. 1 songs and 11 top-10 entries, and "Dynamite" and "Butter" were No. 1 for three and ten weeks.2 BLACKPINK's page lists no top-10 entry; its highest is "Ice Cream" with Selena Gomez at No. 13.4 For every Korean act that has reached the top 10, see DabPop's Billboard Hot 100 top-10 timeline.

2

YouTube

Nov 10, 2026

The most-viewed official music video by BTS is "Dynamite" (2,163,938,246 views) and by BLACKPINK is "DDU-DU DDU-DU" (2,418,929,227).56 Counting official group M/Vs past one billion views gives eight for BTS and seven for BLACKPINK.56

3

Spotify

Nov 9–10, 2026

kworb lists BTS's "Dynamite" at 2,380,829,880 streams and BLACKPINK's "How You Like That" at 1,304,678,504 as each group's most-streamed song. On the "as lead" total, BTS has 51,196,653,593 across 297 tracks and BLACKPINK 16,785,849,900 across 105.78

4

Touring

Oct 11, 2026

Among completed tours, BTS's Love Yourself World Tour grossed $246.5 million from 62 shows in 2018–19, and BLACKPINK's Born Pink World Tour $330.0 million from 66 shows in 2022–23.9 BTS's Arirang World Tour is still running: the first 50 of its 88 shows had grossed $637.5 million, which is a partial figure and isn't compared here.9

5

Awards

Through 2025

In DabPop's MAMA Awards archive, BTS holds 21 daesang and BLACKPINK none; in the Melon Music Awards archive the counts are 13 and none.1011 Both groups' 2026 nominations are still to be decided at the November shows, so these counts are as of 2025.

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What the numbers leave out

Context

The two groups differ in career length and size: BTS debuted in June 2013 with seven members and BLACKPINK in August 2016 with four.1213 The figures above are cumulative, so they reflect years active and catalogue size as well as popularity, and none of them measures musical quality or fan numbers.

Sources

  1. Billboard, BTS chart history: Billboard 200, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  2. Billboard, BTS chart history: Hot 100, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  3. Billboard, BLACKPINK chart history: Billboard 200, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  4. Billboard, BLACKPINK chart history: Hot 100, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  5. kworb.net, BTS YouTube statistics (last modified November 10, 2026, 16:32 GMT), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  6. kworb.net, BLACKPINK YouTube statistics (last modified November 10, 2026, 16:02 GMT), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  7. kworb.net, BTS Spotify top songs (last updated November 9, 2026), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  8. kworb.net, BLACKPINK Spotify top songs (last updated November 10, 2026), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  9. DabPop, Highest-Grossing K-Pop Concert Tours (data as of October 11, 2026), retrieved 2026-10-20.
  10. DabPop, MAMA Awards Daesang Winners: Every Grand Prize Since 1999 (through 2025), retrieved 2026-10-20.
  11. DabPop, Melon Music Awards Daesang Winners: Every Grand Prize Since 2009 (through 2025), retrieved 2026-10-20.
  12. DabPop, BTS profile, retrieved 2026-10-20.
  13. DabPop, BLACKPINK profile, retrieved 2026-10-20.