‘Who is BTS?’: What Alka Yagnik asked daughter after surpassing K-Pop group as most streamed artist gobally

Alka Yagnik emerged as the most streamed global artist on YouTube last year, beating the likes of BTS, Blackpink and Puerto Rico icon Bad Bunny.

By: Entertainment Desk

Mumbai | April 4, 2023 11:44 AM IST

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Alka Yagnik said her daughter Syesha explained what it meant BTS.

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A few months back, India woke up to the exciting news of Alka Yagnik surpassing popular K-pop band BTS to emerge as the most globally streamed artist on YouTube in 2022 with a staggering 15.3 billion streams. Apart from BTS, she also beat Blackpink and Taylor Swift and achieved a new Guinness World record. However, the playback singer shared that she remained indifferent towards the achievement as she did not exactly ‘realise the magnitude’ of the record.

In an interview with Radio Nasha, Alka Yagnik stated that it was her daughter Syesha who explained about global icons K-Pop and what it meant to beat them. “I asked Syesha, ‘who is BTS?’” Alka revealed, adding that her ignorance made her daughter laugh out loud. “She was rolling on the phone. She said ‘mom you are just too much’.” When she broke down the achievement, Alka shared that she remained nonchalant and that her daughter was shocked why she wasn’t getting hyper excited.

She further said in the interview that she doesn’t care about numbers as long as people continue to like her work. Alka Yagnik said that for her ‘more and fewer streams’ do not matter, as people who are listening to her should be happy and love her. “They’re happy, they’re loving me, they’re liking me, and they’ve accepted me with open arms for so many years. For me, that’s in itself a big thing,” she said. The singer added that if today she may be on top of the charts but the rank could fall any day.

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However, Alka concluded by saying that she was happy and grateful about the achievement, “I really feel blessed”.

On the YouTube rankings of 2022, Alka Yagnik stood first followed by Puerto Rico icon Bad Bunny with 14.7 billion streams. The list included other musical stars including BTS with 7.95 billion, BLACKPINK with 7.03 billion, The Weekend with 5.7 billion, Taylor Swift with 4.44 billion, and Drake with 2.9 billion streams. Alka Yagnik had some of the highest streams even back in 2021 and 2022 with 17.7 billion and 16.6 billion streams, respectively.

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