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BTS vs Stray Kids: By the Numbers

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BTS and Stray Kids compared on 13 metrics from Billboard, Spotify, YouTube and Circle Chart: Billboard 200 No. 1 albums (7 and 9), Spotify monthly listeners (30.4 million and 9.8 million), most-viewed video and first-half 2026 album sales.

Data as of

A still from BTS's official music video for Dynamite
Pictured: BTS in the "Dynamite" music video, the group's most-viewed (2.16 billion views); Stray Kids' most-viewed, "God's Menu", is embedded in the YouTube section below.
BTS and Stray Kids compared on 13 metrics, with the source and as-of date for each, as of November 11, 2026
Area Metric BTS
방탄소년단		 Stray Kids
스트레이 키즈		 As of
GroupDebut2013, under Big Hit Entertainment (now HYBE)7March 25, 2018, under JYP Entertainment8Nov 11, 2026
GroupMembers7: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, Jung Kook78: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, I.N8Nov 11, 2026
BillboardBillboard 200 No. 1 albums7129 (the first act to debut at No. 1 with its first nine entries, per Wikipedia)128Nov 11, 2026
BillboardBillboard 200 top-10 albums9191Nov 11, 2026
BillboardLargest week at No. 1 (units)Arirang: 641,000 (three weeks at No. 1)2This & That: 369,0002Nov 11, 2026
BillboardHot 100 top-10 entries11, including 7 No. 1 songs303Nov 11, 2026
BillboardHighest Hot 100 peakNo. 1: "Dynamite" (2020), "Butter" (2021), "Swim" (2026) and others3No. 38: "This & That" (2026)3Nov 11, 2026
SpotifyMonthly listeners29,666,30449,693,1114Nov 10, 2026
SpotifyStreams as lead artist51,196,653,593 (297 tracks)515,828,791,946 (359 tracks)5Nov 9–10, 2026
SpotifyMost-streamed song"Dynamite": 2,380,829,880 streams5"God's Menu": 557,506,664 streams5Nov 9–10, 2026
YouTubeMost-viewed music video"Dynamite": 2,163,938,246 views6"God's Menu": 581,881,031 views6Nov 10, 2026
YouTubeMusic videos with 1B+ views8606Nov 10, 2026
Album salesBest-selling album, Circle Chart first half of 2026ARIRANG: 4,224,016 copies, No. 19No entry in the top 25 (the 25th had 560,671)9Jun 30, 2026

Every cell is read from the source in its footnote on the "As of" date. Spotify's monthly listeners are the figure kworb's list showed; the streams rows count only songs each act leads, not features, so BTS's "My Universe" with Coldplay is not included. The YouTube rows come from kworb's list of the 300 most-viewed Korean music videos, so a video not on it is not counted; Stray Kids have 14 videos on that list and none above 1 billion views.56 Circle Chart's first-half list covers January to June 2026 and Stray Kids' This & That (August 2026) was released after it; no Stray Kids album is among its top 25.9 The two acts debuted five years apart, so cumulative rows (streams, views, No. 1 albums) cover different lengths of time. The comparison declares no winner. The two embedded videos are the official uploads on HYBE LABELS and JYP Entertainment's channels.10

Metric by metric

1

Billboard 200 and Hot 100

Nov 11, 2026

Both acts show nine top-10 albums on Billboard's chart histories, but they differ in how many reached No. 1: BTS has seven (from Love Yourself: Tear on June 2, 2018 to Arirang, which was No. 1 for three weeks from April 4, 2026) and Stray Kids has nine, every one a No. 1 debut; DabPop's timeline of Korean No. 1 albums lists them all.12 Arirang's week was 641,000 units and Stray Kids' largest, This & That on August 22, 2026, was 369,000.2

On the Hot 100, BTS's page lists 11 top-10 entries, seven of them No. 1; Stray Kids' page lists six entries, the highest at No. 38.3

2

Spotify

Oct 29, 2026

Spotify's monthly listeners, as kworb's list showed them, were 29,666,304 for BTS and 9,693,111 for Stray Kids.4 On kworb's artist pages BTS's songs as lead artist total 51,196,653,593 streams across 297 tracks and Stray Kids' 15,828,791,946 across 358.5 Each act's most-streamed song is its own lead track: "Dynamite" at 2,380,829,880 and "God's Menu" at 557,506,664.5

3

YouTube

Oct 29, 2026

BTS's most-viewed official video is "Dynamite" at 2,163,938,246 views, and eight of its videos are above one billion on kworb's list. Stray Kids' most-viewed is "God's Menu" at 581,881,031 views, embedded below, and none is above one billion.6

4

Album sales in Korea

Jun 30, 2026

On Circle Chart's first-half 2026 album chart, BTS's ARIRANG was No. 1 with 4,224,016 copies; the 25th album on that chart sold 560,671 and no Stray Kids album is among the 25.9

5

Group profile

Nov 11, 2026

BTS formed in 2010 and debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment, now HYBE; it has seven members.7 Stray Kids formed in 2017 under JYP Entertainment and officially debuted on March 25, 2018; it has eight members, and Wikipedia says it primarily self-produces its recordings, with the production team 3Racha made up of Bang Chan, Changbin and Han.8

Sources

  1. Billboard, artist chart histories, Billboard 200: BTS and Stray Kids, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  2. Wikipedia, List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2026 (units, weeks at No. 1), and DabPop, Every Korean Album to Top the Billboard 200, retrieved 2026-10-30.
  3. Billboard, artist chart histories, Hot 100: BTS and Stray Kids, retrieved 2026-11-11.
  4. kworb.net, Spotify - Top Artists by Monthly Listeners (last modified Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:59:42 GMT), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  5. kworb.net Spotify artist song pages for BTS (last modified Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:14:50 GMT) and Stray Kids (Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:21:06 GMT), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  6. kworb.net, most-viewed Korean music videos on YouTube (last modified Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:31:24 GMT), retrieved 2026-11-11.
  7. Wikipedia, BTS, retrieved 2026-10-30.
  8. Wikipedia, Stray Kids, retrieved 2026-10-30.
  9. DabPop, Best-Selling Albums in Korea: First Half of 2026 (Circle Chart's First Half album chart), retrieved 2026-10-30.
  10. YouTube (oEmbed-verified, retrieved 2026-11-11): JYP Entertainment, Stray Kids "God's Menu" M/V; HYBE LABELS, BTS "Dynamite" Official MV.