The wildly popular South Korean group has officially broken the YouTube record for most views in the first 24 hours of release with their new song “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey.
As of 3 p.m. EST on Saturday (April 13), “Boy With Luv†had racked up over 92 million views.
This smashes the previous record, set one week ago by K-pop girl group Blackpink’s “Kill This Love,†which earned over 56 million views in its first 24 hours, beating out Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next.â€
BTS’s “Boy With Luv†YouTube video also garnered 2 million comments in the first 24 hours, Variety reports.
The members of BTS look so handsome on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, out on newsstands on Friday (March 29).
Here’s what the hugely popular K-pop boy band had to say…
RM, on their influence in music: “With seven members we have seven different tastes, of course. So when it comes to songwriting, it’s like a big competition.â€
J-Hope, on their individual taste: “We’ll write a lyric and decide, ‘This sort of reflects me [more], who I am and my own color,’ so we’ll want to keep that for a solo song.â€
RM, on crossing over in America: “You know, Latin pop has its own Grammys in America, and it’s quite different. I don’t want to compare, but I think it’s even harder as an Asian group. A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals. But they’re just goals—we don’t want to change our identity or our genuineness to get the number one. Like if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these other things, then that’s not BTS.â€
BTS is releasing new music very soon and fans around the world are likely freaking out with excitement from the announcement!
Ahead of the start of their upcoming U.S. tour, BTS will be dropping Map of the Soul: Persona on Friday, April 12 and you can pre-order it starting on March 13.
The K-Pop group released their previous album Love Yourself – Answer, the final album in their “Love Yourself” series, last August and it went to number one on the Billboard 200.
You can see BTS on the road in the U.S. starting in May for the Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour.
The seven members of the massively successful K-Pop boy band – RM, V, J-Hope, Suga, Jungkook, Jimin and Jin – posed for pictures while arriving at the 2019 Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 10) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Check out the trailer for BTS‘ Love Yourself World Tour concert film!
That’s right, the K-pop troupe is bringing their first show from the tour to your local movie theater, as they announced on Wednesday (December 19).
Shot live at BTS‘ sold-out Seoul Olympic Stadium concert, the event delivers not only an intimate look of the full concert set list, but also the energy of the guys and their dedication to their artistry.
The landmark one-day event will unite fans in 90 countries around the world in celebrating the band’s unprecedented international fame.
BTS World Tour Love Yourself in Seoul will hit theaters only on January 26 at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. local time.
Watch the trailer below!
You can get your tickets here, here, and at participating theater box offices.
If you missed the BTS film Burn the Stage: The Movie when it was in theaters recently, you’re in luck as it’s coming back to theaters for a limited run!
1,400 movie theaters all around the world will host screenings of the movie on December 5 and 6 and tickets go on sale this Monday, according to Variety.
Burn the Stage: The Movie grossed $14 million in its original run to match One Direction: Where We Are‘s record gross for an event-cinema movie. Now it’s likely to eclipse that total and earn the record.
“We often talk about event cinema uniting fan groups with a cinema experience…and that’s so clearly true in the case of BTS,†CEO Marc Allenby said. “They were selling out shows within minutes of going on sale. [Fans] knew exactly when tickets would be available. There are stories of a group of 300 girls arriving at a cinema in Mexico demanding the manager sell them tickets before they were on sale.â€