South Korean band BTS has achieved a new record with their music video ‘Dynamite’.
BTS Dynamite surpassed 1.6 billion views countermark on YouTube. The boy band became the second music video after Boy With Luv to do so. Dynamite was released on August 21, 2020, which means it took more than two years and three months to hit this billion views mark.
With this achievement, Dynamite broke the previous record of 2 years and 11 months set by BLACKPINK’s music video DDU-DU DDU-DU and became the fastest video in K-pop history to reach the 1.6 billion mark. For those unversed, BTS is the world’s famous South Korean boy music band consisting of seven members: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook.
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Moreover, BTS’s music company HYBE has confirmed that all seven members of the band will serve in the military as is mandatory for all in South Korea. Group member Jin will initiate the process as soon as his schedule for his solo release is concluded at the end of October. He will then follow the enlistment procedure of the Korean government.
Other members of the group plan to carry out their military service based on their own individual plans. Both the company and the members of BTS are looking forward to reconvening as a group again around 2025 following their service commitment.
Since the creation of BTS over ten years ago, the band has risen to international success, broken records, and catapulted K-Pop into the global stratosphere.
