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“ Gentleman,” which premiered in April. The latter hit No. 1 on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart, where it was the most streamed song in the U. S. across such services as YouTube and Spotify for two weeks straight. Thanks in large part to Psy’ s success, the global music industry has seen a major surge in K-Pop interest. According to data provided by Google, in the year before“ Gangnam Style,” music videos from K-Pop artists were viewed more than 2.2 billion times globally. The year after, that number jumped to more than 7 billion, with the major-