BTS ” Dynamite ‘Music Video Reaches Billion YouTube Views
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For over six months now, BTS’s tune “Dynamite” has caught in everybody’s head around the globe. In these months the monitor hit historic highs within the charts seemingly in each nation, held for lengthy stretches, bought hundreds of thousands, and now the music video that helped remodel the reduce eye-catching into a real international success has reached an even bigger milestone.
BTS’s “Dynamite” music video turned the most recent to hit one billion views on YouTube.
“Dynamite” is the third visible from the South Korean vocal group to have racked up no less than a billion performs on YouTube, and it certain will not be the final. “DNA,” which now accounts for 1.245 billion views, on the time of writing, is main the best way amongst Okay-pop favorites releases. Not far behind this obtain comes “Boy With Luv,” the group’s collaboration with American pop singer Halsey. This publish is only some million views behind 1.2 billion, and it might someday meet up with “DNA”.
The “Dynamite” video was launched on August 21 of final yr, so BTS followers have been watching it nonstop because it arrived. It took lower than eight months to rack up a 10-digit view rely on YouTube, which is an extremely quick interval to achieve that mark.
BTS are sometimes the kings of YouTube, whether or not it is breaking information with essentially the most views in 24 hours or reaching spectacular milestones in a really quick time frame. This week, the boy group took dwelling the largest music video on this planet with their new launch “Movie Out,” which reached # 1 on YouTube’s weekly charts after the tip of their first uptime.
“Dynamite” was a game-changer for BTS as a result of it helped them accomplish a lot that that they had by no means finished earlier than. The tune wasn’t solely ranked # 1 on America’s Sizzling 100, it debuted there, making it the primary South Korean musical act to take care of these two issues. It turned the longest charting monitor by an artist from their dwelling nation, and it spent extra time on the prime of the gross sales charts than another outing in US historical past. The tune went on to earn the septet their first Grammy nomination, additionally an enormous second for all South Korean artists.
The disco-pop favourite is simply beginning to fade from the charts, however wanting on the velocity at which it’s nonetheless considered on YouTube, it is clear that it will not be fading from the minds of the plenty anytime quickly.