charts discussion Jimin #2 on US Spotify, not charting in any cities, only #24 on BB streaming. How?

[penguintim]

Jimin's "WHO" spends a 4th week on the US Spotify, this time moving up to #2, behind only Chappell Roan's smash hit "Good Luck Babe!"

Despite this, the song doesn't seem to be charting in any US Cities, where Chappell and Billie interchangeably occupy the top 2. Here are some examples from some of the biggest cities

 

New York:

 

Los Angeles

 

Chicago

 

Houston

 

Phoenix

 

While all the other songs in the top 10 appear at least once or twice in the other cities (even Charli XCX's "Guess" appears in 4 of the 5 cities while being #11 overall in the US), Jimin is entirely absent from not just the top 10, but the entire chart for each one.
Is there an explanation for this impressive yet incongruous achievement? Presumably he must be extremely popular in independent cities, isolated small towns and large motorways? Are Pitbull, Travis Scott, Kim Kardashian and Drake bumping that in their private jets? What are your thoughts on this strange circumstance, fellow ATRLcoholics?

Edited August 20 by penguintim
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[Dialamba]

His fanbase uses VPN.  
Same goes on Spotify Korea and Japan he is topping there but doesn't charts on major cities and neither domestic charts. 
 

[RideOrDie]

bots, streaming farms, payola, vpns, fraudulence etc. 

Edited August 16 by RideOrDie

[frankvert]

Spotify needs to stop allowing this fraudulence to happen. It cheapens their service (even more than it already is). 

[B-Luke]

BoTS

 

[piotrert]

16 minutes ago, Dialamba said:

His fanbase uses VPN.  
Same goes on Spotify Korea and Japan he is topping there but doesn't charts on major cities and neither domestic charts. 
 

the fact that spotify isn't filtering out streams from vpn is crazy

[KatyPrismSpirit]

that song suckz

Edited August 16 by KatyPrismSpirit

[Kyoto]

Bots with VPN

[Digitalism]

It still weird that he is not charting at all since korean artist still chart most of the times without the bots. He should be at least in the lower top 200

 

[Digitalism]

It still weird that he is not charting at all since korean artist still chart most of the times without the bots. He should be at least in the lower top 200

 

[bad guy]

Spotify seems to care more about Twitter engagement from his deranged fans rather than filtering out all the obvious bot streams and streaming farms. 

 

[Psycho]

All the bot farms are located in rural areas I guess

 

[Both Sides Now]

Because he is smashing in Laramie, Wyoming  

[Human Fly]

[Pheromosa]

the beauty of the streaming fraudulence era it is when the bots are done and the song plummets, he'll be in the same place he was before 

 

[pride4jc1222]

3 minutes ago, Pheromosa said:

the beauty of the streaming fraudulence era it is when the bots are done and the song plummets, he'll be in the same place he was before 

 

Yeah, we'll know it's fraudulent when it's Spotify streams randomly crashes one week. Kind of like when Life is Good's streams suddenly crashed over 90% on YouTube after it was #1 on there for over a year and went diamond.

[Katamari]

Lastfm streaming numbers slayage  

[Bosque]

Did you check in Seoul, Texas and Busan, Kansas?

[truthteller]

the Area 51 conspiracy plot thickens

[Squall]

He is charting in the Pacific Ocean, it's part of the US

[Antisocialites]

fraudulence and corruption

[Tsareena]

1 hour ago, piotrert said:

the fact that spotify isn't filtering out streams from vpn is crazy

they don't care. it makes their app look more popular than it actually is

[KKCuteCat]

1 hour ago, frankvert said:

Spotify needs to stop allowing this fraudulence to happen. It cheapens their service (even more than it already is). 

Since they gave them the numbers, i highly doubt that Spotify will care about justice  . How pathetic

[SimpleKindofLife]

King of the suburbs and rural areas

[Ger]

This is disgusting. Beyond tired of these fraudulent K-Pop acts.