BTS’ Dynamite Becomes Fastest Korean Group MV To Achieve 1 Billion Views Apr 12, 2021, 15:11 IST
Another day and another reason for the BTS ARMY to celebrate as their favourite boyband makes a new record. BTS’ Dynamite has reached 1 Billion views on Youtube. It is now the fastest 1B by a Korean group. The band achieved this feat in less than one year, seven months and 22 days to be precise.
The MV was released on August 21, 2020. It took just 234 days for
Dynamite to reach this milestone. Along with Dynamite, DNA and Boy With Luv also have more than 1 billion views giving the band, a total of three MVs to cross this mark. As Dynamite reached this mark in 7 months, ARMYs were quick to start joking about the power of ‘Number 7.’
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Fans of boy band BTS have taken to social media to share their disgust that the seven-strong South Korean phenomenon s were robbed of their first Grammy Award as the 2021 ceremony commences. They became the first K-pop band to be nominated for an accolade for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with their song Dynamite, but it was a victory for Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga s Rain On Me that took home the title this year. Although the gong has already been awarded, the band s loyal fanbase known as the Army , wouldn t let it go and took to Twitter to blast th
March 11, 2021
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The South Korean boy band BTS is continuing its meteoric rise in the music industry garnering its first ever Grammy nomination this year, as well as the first nomination for K-pop.
Shin Dong Kim, mass communications professor at Hallym University: And there has been some attention on the fandom, the peculiar aspect of K-pop fandom, for example, Army for BTS…
But BTS and K-pop didn t come out of nowhere. K-pop has been steadily growing its global presence dubbed Hallyu, or the Korean Wave by followers and other groups to pave the way for BTS include the Wonder Girls, Twice, Big Bang and PSY.