Track 6 - Data and Tables: the Band s Billion Songs 1,260 million streams. For comparison, The Temptations' My Girl, released in 1964, sits in seventeenth place with 1,243 million streams. Sixty one years of history separate these two tracks in the rankings, yet they are a mere 17 million streams apart. My Girl is a true phenomenon a song over sixty years old that is still heavily streamed today while Golden reached the same tier in just a few months. This, ladies and gentlemen, is pop music. How do we explain this? Well, rst of all, even though Huntr/x is virtual, they are a K pop group, and K pop possesses an unprecedented ability to mobilize its fandom, even within the realm of "virtual animation". Secondly, Golden is the soundtrack to a globally distributed Net ix lm, which granted it immediate ampli cation across hundreds of millions of subscribers. Golden is a track born of its time, and its time is the most connected and fast paced era pop music has ever known. Yet My Girl and this is truly astonishing is right there with its 1960s vibes, competing against the youthful energy of the newcomers. Fantastic. Year of Entry into the Billion Club One nal table gives us a snapshot of when these tracks o cially joined the Billion Club. Eleven tracks entered in 2023, eleven in 2025, ve in 2024, and ve in 2026, with the latter year still underway. The Billion Club is not a static archive; it is a living organism that constantly updates itself. The next edition of this volume will re ect new entries with data updated to December 31, 2026. 45