BLACKPINK’s ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ M/V Reaches More Than 1.7 billion Views…The First and Best Among K-POP Girl Groups
[MBN스타=안하나 기자] The music video for BLACKPINK’s ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ reached 1.7 billion views on YouTube. Not only is this figure the first among K-POP groups, but also the highest number of views.
According to YG Entertainment on the 23rd, the music video for BLACKPINK’s ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ reached more than 1.7 billion views on YouTube as of 7 p.m. of the 23rd.
This feat was reached after 3 years and 3 months since it was released on the 15th of June 2018. The song which is reaching the first, best, and most views among K-POP group’s music videos is constantly breaking new records every single minute. The song was the title song for BLACKPINK’s first mini album ‘SQUARE UP’.
The addictive chorus and point choreography where the girls use their hands to make a gun shape garnered world-wide popularity and reached the top position of ‘The most viewed K-POP music video’ that year. Ever since then, it has been steadily gaining popularity world-wide with it’s first digit of hundreds of millions of views changing every two to three months
‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ has also reached remarkable results on various global main charts. Right after it got released, not only did it record a ‘perfect all-kill’ on domestic music streaming sites, but it also reached 40th and 55th respectively on the U.S. Billboard 200 and Hot 100 Chart, which was an all-time best record by a K-POP girl group at the time. The song is also set to surpass 500 million streaming times on the world’s largest music platform ‘Spotify’.
Meanwhile, BLACKPINK has a total of 30 videos on YouTube that’s reached more than 100 million views. Out of those, ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU (1.7 billion views)’, ‘Kill This Love (1.3 billion views)’, ‘BOOMBAYAH (1.2 billion views)’, and ‘As If It’s Your Last (1 billion views) have all reached more than 1 billion views.
In particular, with LISA’s solo album ‘LALISA’ which was released on the 10th taking over global charts, the number of subscribers on BLACKPINK’s official YouTube channel is also showing an explosive increase. The channel currently has 67 million subscribers, which is the most among artists from all around the world.
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