SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS has set another record, with its latest single “Butter” becoming the most-watched music video on YouTube in 24 hours since its debut, its agency said Sunday. The upbeat summer song had racked up 108.2 million views in its first 24 hours of release on Friday, Big Hit Music [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, which has one of the world’s biggest subscriber bases on YouTube, set another record Saturday by racking up 1.3 billion views with its music video “Kill This Love.” Views for the 2019 hit broke the record at 1:40 p.m. on YouTube, becoming the all-female act’s second music video [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the 2018 BTS hit “Idol” has surpassed 900 million views on YouTube in the latest feat for the K-pop dynamo. “Idol,” the main track of the seven-piece act’s repackaged album “Love Yourself: Answer,” hit the milestone at 5:59 a.m. on Sunday, according to Big Hit [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “As If It’s Your Last” has become its fourth music video to top 1 billion views on YouTube. According to YG Entertainment, BLACKPINK’s music video “As If It’s Your Last” broke 1 billion views at 6:52 p.m. Friday on YouTube, three years and [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the 2019 BTS hit “Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)” has earned more than 1.2 billion views on YouTube in another milestone for the K-pop dynamo. “Boy With Luv,” the main track for the seven-piece act’s sixth EP “Map of the Soul: Persona,” hit 1.2 billion [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK now has more than 60 million subscribers around the world following its YouTube channel, the biggest account based in South Korea and the second largest among global artists, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The number of subscribers for the four-piece act’s YouTube channel passed the [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the 2018 BTS hit “Fake Love” has earned 900 million views on YouTube, becoming the group’s fourth song to reach the milestone, their agency said Thursday. “Fake Love,” the main track for the seven-piece act’s third full album “Love Yourself: Tear,” hit 900 million views [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of a letup, YouTube videos are shifting from “mukbang” (a portmanteau in Korean of “eating” and “broadcast”) to “cookbang” (“cooking” and “broadcast”). YouTubers are coming up with easy-to-follow cooking videos to cater to an increasing number of viewers who choose to cook [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean all-female band BLACKPINK’s music video “How You Like That” has garnered 800 million views on YouTube in what its agency said was reached in the shortest time for a female K-pop act. The quartet’s music video of the hit song reached the milestone at 9:58 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In today’s world where social media is omnipresent, random things that fascinate people — think viral cat videos, TikTok dance challenges, political conspiracies — tend to go viral with the smallest triggers. For one K-pop girl group, this happened in an unexpected yet dramatic way. Brave Girls, a once-forgotten [...]