BTS and Halsey's "Boy With Luv" has hit a staggering number of 1.5 billion views. The music video is the first to reach 1.5 billion.
"Boy With Luv" surpassed the number on April 21st at approximately 4:43pm (KST). The previous record for the video was 1.4 billion last November. The music video reached 1.5 billion after roughly five months since its last record.
BTS released "Map of the Soul: Persona" in April of 2019. "Boy With Luv" is the title track for the album. American solo artist Halsey took part in the song for a collab.
The song itself was a major success upon release. It had ranked #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. The track remained on the charts for a total of eight consecutive weeks. As a matter of fact, the song still remains on domestic charts.
The music video shows a number of backgrounds from a movie theater, a restaurant and more.
BTS will continue to rack up views for their music videos. Besides "Boy With Luv", a total of thirty six other songs under the group have millions of views.
"DNA" and "Dynamite" currently has 1.4 billion, "Mic Drop" and "Idol" has a total of 1.1 billion, and "Fake Love" sits at 1 billion.
"Blood, Sweat, and Tears" has 863 million views, "Fire" has 727 million, "Dope" has 711 million views. "Butter" currently sits at 738 million, "Save Me" has 657 million, "Not Today" has 534 million, "Spring Day" has 475 million, "On" with 303 million, "Life Goes On" with 447 million, "Permission to Dance" with 474 million, and "Boy In Luv" with 403 million views.
"Black Swan" sits at 384 million, "War of Hormones" with 299 million, "I Need You", and "No More Dream" all have over millions of views.
"Danger", "Just One Day", "We Are Bulletproof Part 2", "Run", "Serendipity", "Singularity", "Idol", "Dynamite" "I Need You (Original)", "Ego", "Interlude: Shadow", and "Epiphany" are all in the billions.
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<Translated by=Justina Kim(Dispatch)>