Before her solo debut with Hello, Joy also took part in several original soundtrack projects for Korean dramas like Hospital Playlist, Tempted, and The Liar and His Lover. The 25-year-old singer also acted in dramas Tempted and The Liar and His Lover.
Global singers from BTS recently overtook social media with a look into their brand new Map of The Soul ON:E Concept Photo Book shooting sketch.
With barely five hours into its release, the shooting sketch has already amassed over 2,269,210 views.
It features one-on-one interviews with the seven wonders and also includes an in-depth explanation of the theme.
In one of the segments Jin explained it all at length and was quoted saying, “I’ll briefly explain the concept for this shoot. The concept is ‘Myself’.”
TOMORROW X TOGETHER released their latest album ‘The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE’ today and the music video of title track 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) feat Seori. Check it out here.
Just in the morning, the famous BigHit boy band TXT broke their own record by surpassing 700k sales in pre-orders, in just one month. Among the many other accolades they’ve won, this has marked a new high from the group which debuted only two years ago, in 2019. The group held a media showcase where they talked about the album and the process behind it, their goals and more in a detailed manner too.
The title 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) feat Seori was released today on their YouTube channel and it’s a trendy hybrid pop rock song that expresses a teenage boy’s certainty when it comes to ‘you’, who is the only one who can calm his chaotic world. Since the release of the tracklist, the title track was the one that gained the most attention, as it showed a collaborative effort between international artists. It has producers of HYBE’s labels Slow Rabbit and “hitman” bang, American singer-songwriter and Rock Hiphop artist Mod Sun and No Love For The Middle Child as songwriters, and even BTS’ RM, who helped in the songwriting process.
The music video is like a coming-of-age movie, where friends are together yet alone, and are looking for someone to save them from the world that has turned into chaos. In many scenes, we see a fish flying in mid-air and it seems representative of how the members want to escape their reality.
All the members took active participation in the making of The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE. Drawing from the empathy and concerns of teenagers all around the world, Soobin has penned Ice Cream, while Yeonjun, Taehyun and Beomgyu contributed to the lyrics of What If I had been that PUMA. No Rules was penned by Yeonjun, Huening Kai, Beomgyu and Taehyun while Yeonjun also contributed to the lyrics of Frost. Taehyun and Beomgyu took part in producing too. Taehyun wrote both lyrics and music for Dear Sputnik and Huening Kai helped in the lyrics and produced it too.
All in all, TXT’s second studio album The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE talks about the stories of a boy who has frozen as a result of the onslaught of the world.
MOAs, how do you like the music video and the album? Share your thoughts with us and tell us your favourite track from the album below!
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Joy has made her solo debut!
On May 31 at 6 p.m. KST, the Red Velvet vocalist released her solo debut album “Hello,” which is a remake album.
The title track, a remake of Park Hye Kyung’s 2003 track “Hello,” is a modern rock song with hopeful lyrics about forgetting the difficult past and starting fresh. The remake was arranged by KENZIE.
Check out the music video below:
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BTS almost always rank among the most successful acts on YouTube, as their name typically appears somewhere inside the top 10 on the video hosting site’s weekly ranking of the most popular musicians, but their performance this time around is truly astounding.
According to the latest weekly chart, BTS as a group saw their videos rack up an incredible 549 million plays. Yes, that’s right, the South Korean vocal band’s countless uploads were watched more than half a billion times in the last seven days alone.
The bulk of all those plays come to BTS thanks to the release of their new music video for their single “Butter,” which started breaking a number of records from the moment it was unleashed. The clip was watched 235 million times in the first seven days it was available to view on the platform, and that sum is easily enough to make it the most-watched upload of the week. In fact, “Butter” beats the second-most-popular title on YouTube this frame more than five times over.
Whenever an act as big as BTS releases something as massively popular as “Butter” has become, their entire catalog benefits, as fans continue watching and listening to their older releases. Depending on the account, YouTube may even suggest more content from the same band to play next, keeping their view count rising higher and higher. Many of BTS’s most beloved tracks improve significantly on this week’s YouTube chart, and they all played a part in adding to that 549 million number.
Also helping add to BTS’s eye-popping single-week sum is the release of a new performance video, which opens at No. 4 on the weekly chart. The septet’s debut live showing of “Butter,” which was part of the Billboard Music Awards, racked up almost 30 million plays in less than a full seven days.
BTS beat this week’s second-most-played musician, Alka Yagnik, more than twice over. The Indian playback star sat at No. 1 last frame, but this time around he dips to second place, as his music was played 254 million times, earning less than half as many clicks as all of BTS’s uploads. The K-pop titans saw their catalog views improve more than 196% week-over-week, which isn’t shocking, given how much attention their latest release has received.
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The world of K-Pop fans went into an uproar when reports announcing TWICE’s comeback were released. Their fandom, ONCEs, were waiting too long to have the girls make a comeback and it was finally granted a couple of months ago. The album is titled ‘Taste of Love’ and by the looks of the content released already, it looks quite refreshing.
On May 30, TWICE released a cool and detailed tracklist for ‘Taste of Love’, which is the group’s 10th mini album. According to the tracklist, the mini album will contain seven songs, including the English version of their hit song ‘Cry For Me’. While each song will be available for digital and physical albums, ‘Cry For Me’ English version will only be available in the physical album. Out of the seven songs, three songs are written by Dahyun, and one by Jihyo and Mina each.
Check out the tracklist below:
TWICE 10th Mini Album
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— TWICE (@JYPETWICE) May 30, 2021
TWICE also released a spectacular first-look, a trailer of their album. The video has a whole beach-time party vibe as we see members wear flowy dresses and either grooving to the music or making some kind of a drink. They play with flowers, fruits, mocktails, and raise their glasses while having a bash, as confetti flies around with members now wearing printed party clothes.
Watch the refreshing and beautiful ‘Taste of Love’ trailer below:
The full album is all set to release on June 11, 2021. Before which, the music video of the title track ‘Alcohol-free’ will be released on June 9, 2021. Their first performance of the title track will be on The Ellen Show!
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Know everything that happened at the Global Media Showcase of TXT's comeback album The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE. Their behind-the-scenes stories, which songs they resonate with, what it felt like working with Seori & more!
The global media showcase for TXT’s comeback album The Chaos chapter: FREEZE was held online today, on May 31 at 3 PM KST. The members had a fun time talking about ther album and the stories behind it! Let us take you through everything that happened at the Global Media Showcase! It started with a concept trailer of their album and then walked in the members, looking all handsome in a black and white suit. What’s interesting was that instead of pockets on the right side, members had different shapes in white color. The youngest member, Huening Kai, had a white heart on his coat and was seen sporting a lace choker. Members Taehyung and Beomgyu wore scarves around their neck and everyone stood proud, tall, and a bit nervous!
The press conference started with the host asking them about the concept trailer and what is the overall concept of The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE. Yeonjun spoke up and said that it is the beginning of the second chapter, after the boys in the previous album. It talks about the experience of ordinary days that are now shaken up in a teenagers’ life all around the world. The group’s leader, Soobin, added that it is similar to the feeling of a teenager’s growth and experiences being attacked but meeting someone you love, is the cure to the wounds.
The host then asked about the rightfully deserved hyped up title track 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) and what are their thoughts on it. Huening Kai answered that it’s about a boy filled with confusion in today’s world scenario. Beomgyu also spoke up saying that the lyrics for the song are great and the song is really emotional. Especially the verse ‘I know you love me’ made him feel really nice and will definitely tug at the right heartstrings. Soobin also added that the first time they heard it after recording, it was very moving and emotional for him. He shared a funny incident saying that they all tried to pretend that the song wasn’t emotional or moved them much, but then Yeonjun said that it was out loud! Other members then chimed in saying that it was definitely a wild moment because of how emotional it was.
One interesting thing that fans, or MOAs, noticed was the label of the british Netflix show ‘The End of The F….ing World’ on Soobin’s outfit in the concept trailer. The host asked whether this was a conscious choice and if yes, what was the reason behind it. Soobin then replied that all the members tried to watch other shows and types of media to understand the feelings and emotions better. They watched the British show and felt that the emotions in it really reflected the song’s emotions they wanted to portray. He added that that is why they wanted to add this little touch to draw the emotions through the music.
The host then asked about the title track’s very unique title, as it contains both numbers and words. He asked the significance behind it and Beomgyu replied that it’s similar to a math equation. In the 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You), ‘0’ denotes the world and also the boy’s heart - which is now empty, like a hole. The ‘1’ denotes 'you' that is the only one who can save them in this chaotic world.
When asked for highlights that the fans should look forward to, members expressed their answers beautifully. Huening Kai listed down almost everything, saying that he thinks the lyrics, the melody, the choreography are the highlights. However, he was quick to add that the most important thing to watch out for is how they express their emotions through the song. For Taehyun, it is the flow of emotions that each member portrays on the stage. Yeonjun also chimed in and shared a prepping up incident saying that this is their first choreography with only handheld mics so there were some mistakes and awkwardness, like the mic falling and others. But they practiced a lot to not make those mistakes again.
The host then moved on to talk about their collaborations with other artists. The first one is with singer Seori for their title track 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You). Yeonjun shared that all the members have their own distinct voice but they thought that they could express more emotions with a different voice. That’s when they reached out to Seori and she gladly accepted. He also thanked Seori for working with them. Taehyun added to Yeonjun’s comment saying that “There’s no right or wrong when it comes to music” and the first time he heard the song, he was surprised at how good Seori's voice blended with all of theirs was!
The conversation moved on to the hottest topic that garnered a lot of attention - BTS’ RM being credited as a lyricist in the title track. When asked about how that happened, leader Soobin shared that he was initially stuck on the song for about three months. One day, PD Bang Si Hyuk went to RM and asked him to help with the lyrics if he liked the song and RM gladly accepted it. He then shared a behind-the-scenes moment saying that after the song was produced, there were a couple of options for its title and everyone had mixed opinions about it. Then RM gave his opinion and said 0X1=LOVESONG sounds better, so that was finalized. The host then jokingly asked, “Oh so between PD Bang Si Hyuk and RM, RM won?” The members laughed and Soobin answered, “I guess,” while laughing.
Huening Kai also shared that when he first heard RM was working on their album, he excitedly ran to him and thanked him. RM told him that it was no problem and said “Please sing it nicely”. The members also said that working with international producers gave them a motivational boost and encouraged them to work harder.
The members then talked a bit about them actively taking part in songwriting and producing for this second full-length album. Noteworthy things to look forward to are the wordplay Soobin did for the song Ice Cream, called ìì í in Korean. It sounds similar to a word in Korean that is defined along the lines of ‘small happiness’. Taehyun answered that the members are now trying to do more than just sing as TOMORROW X TOGETHER and broaden their spectrum as artists. Huening Kai talked about ‘Dear Sputnik’ - the first song he has ever produced. He talked about how it came into being by sharing that he made the demo version first on a software he used since he was a child, and just sent it to the company saying this is just a sample. He received a good reaction for it and he gradually developed it from there. He also shared that the song has a carefree vibe.
The members also talked about their experience for their first all-English song Magic. Yeonjun started off by saying that this is their gift for the fans all over the world. He added that because it’s their first English song, they wanted to make it as perfect as possible and hopes that MOAs will enjoy listening to it. Beomgyu also shared his thoughts by saying that he worked really hard on his pronunciation because it is the first all-English song. The members also smoothed out every single detail for this first try.
When asked about their comeback goals, Soobin replied saying that they would like to get Number 1 on music shows because they’ve worked so hard for it. But he also added that regardless of the results, he sincerely hopes that MOAs enjoy the songs and the performance. Yeonjun revealed his wishes that he would want to be called the ‘Fourth Generation Leaders’ or ‘Fourth generation IT boys’. These will definitely make the group feel happier. Huening Kai added that TXT as a group releases music in their own style, that other groups can’t, and that’s why fans can relate to the stories more. Especially teenagers. He said that he would want the team to be known as the team that best represents today’s youth.
The boys then performed their powerful song 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You). The members were all dressed in loose, holed tshirts and dull-black ripped denims. They went for an emotional, angsty teenager look that even visually presents how chaotic their world has become. The choreography is definitely dynamic and refreshing. It also has the group’s signature picking-up-a-member move. Soobin and Yeonjun have a bridge choreography where they perform together and it’s extremely soothing and sweet to the ears.
When the segment of answering international questions came up, a reporter asked about the worries and concerns they think teens have today, as their albums always try to sympathise and resonate with them. Taehyun then talked about the Japanese radio program that he and Huening Kai were hosts of, called ‘Listen’. It is the only radio show that talked about the youth’s concern. He shared that he and Huening Kai would read many letters from the teenagers that would either focus on studies or would largely focus on the pandemic and the confusion. So they tried to reference that when it came to talking about what ordinary young people are going through.
Soobin then added that earlier, they created the song ‘We Lost the Summer’ that showcased the emotions of teenagers missing out on their daily lives and remembering the life before pandemic. This time, they have a song called No Rules which everyone should look forward to.
A reporter then asked them about the legacy they would like to leave, as TOMORROW X TOGETHER, five or ten years down the line. Beomgyu replied saying that he really wants to move people’s hearts through the group’s music. He also said that he wishes viewers remember that a particular song made their heart flutter the first time they heard it or that they feel connected to it.
When asked about which song resonates the most with each member, Yeonjun replied saying No Rules and Magic, while for Huening Kai, it was his first-ever produced song Dear Sputnik, which means a lot to him.
As the time was over, the boys then bid farewell by politely bowing and asking for lots of support and love for their new album.
The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE will release today, May 31 at 6 PM KST (2:30 PM IST)
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The South K-pop band BTS members recently revealed their favorite things about being in the group. In a recent AskAnythingChat interview, the BTS members including V, Suga, Jimin, Jin, RM, Jungkook, and J-Hope were asked several questions from ARMYs. One of these questions was what is each member’s favorite thing about being in BTS?
Jin said that he likes that V sends funny pictures of himself. While Jimin said that he that Suga cooks for them when they are vacationing. V said that he likes when J-Hope always buys them presents. Jimin suddenly asked V to compliment him and the latter said that “You are so very kind!”
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BTS members are quite close to each other and they are now inseparable.
Stay tuned to BollywoodLife for the latest scoops and updates from Bollywood, Hollywood, South, TV and Web-Series.Michelle Zauner’s intermingling life and work is—both figuratively and literally—an open book. Her musical project, Japanese Breakfast, is known for deeply personal songs filled with honest and candid observations on grief, loss and sexuality—awash in dynamic, atmospheric sounds.
Last April, Zauner released her first book: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir through Alfred A. Knopf. The book was first published as an essay in The New Yorker back in 2018, where Zauner explored her relationship with her mother and her identity after her mother’s passing.
On June 4, Zauner will release Japanese Breakfast’s most ambitious album yet: Jubilee.
“After writing two albums and a book about grief and loss, I sort of felt ready to embrace the other end of the spectrum of human experience and write [about] something surprising, like joy,” said Zauner over a Zoom call. Speaking from her New York Home, the US musician was surrounded by bits and pieces of her life. Framed family photos, posters of past shows and an artwork by Yoshitomo Nara adorning the bright yellow wall of her living room.
The album is long time coming, recorded in 2019 and originally slated for a summer 2020 release. As an album with a clear substantial vision, it feels right that Jubilee is delayed for a more communal experience in a world that’s slowly coming back to normal. While in the past Zauner has stated that she draws from fatigue and anguish for her creative process, Jubilee’s starkly bright impression suggests a new outlook, something that Zauner fully recognizes as tapping into a different source of inspiration. “Even the first song, ‘Paprika’, is about not always having to experience turmoil and anguish to make good art,” stated Zauner.
From March to May, Zauner has released one single a month from the album, “Be Sweet”, “Posing in Bondage” and “Savage Sweet Boy”, which showcases the sharp progression of her sound. “I had sort of said everything I needed to say about losing my mom and about death,” Zauner said.
Jubilee itself seems to be made for live experiences and tours, something that Zauner deeply misses. “I love getting to travel everywhere, it’s an excellent part of the job,” she said. Some of the things she often made time for during tours are visiting local record shops, searching for good food, visiting night markets and getting to see old friends. A rare activity she appreciates when she has the time is to go swimming.
In most of her US tours, she often looks for Korean food to feel more grounded, with the depth of flavors being its deciding quality. While touring Asia, Zauner mostly tried local food, and Indonesia was no exception. The dish of choice for Jakarta was Padang food—something that she unexpectedly has a connection with. “When I was in college, I used to work at a sushi restaurant, and all of the waitresses were Indonesian. [Once,] for my birthday, they made me nasi padang, so I always wanted to [try] it in Indonesia,” she reminisced.
Zauner says that, after writing two albums and a book about grief and loss, she is ready to embrace the brighter side of life. (Japanese Breakfast management/Peter Ash Lee)
One of her last releases under the Japanese Breakfast moniker before the upcoming album is “Essentially”—a song recorded in Bali spontaneously with her drummer and coproducer Craig Hendrix. The session is a part of a continuous project by W Records, a record label by W Hotels Worldwide. The dancey track is described by Zauner as sultry and kind of tropical, after the fact that it was partly influenced by the ambience of the “fancy and sexy hotel,” she said with a laugh.
The written and the sung
Being a prolific multihyphenate, Zauner’s influences and inspirations expectedly crossed over into one another, as is her approach to writing. “I think they’re about finding meaning in ordinary, kind of mundane moments, both songwriting and writing in general. [...] I guess I have always just been interested in telling stories in some way or another,” said Zauner. Regarding her influences, she stated that literature had always been a big inspiration for her lyrics. Conversely, Zauner’s influences like David Berman, Mount Eerie or Bill Callahan’s openness in songwriting display a similar approach to writing a memoir.
It is apt that Mount Eerie—real name Phil Elverum—whose last releases revolve around the passing of his wife GeneviĂšve CastrĂ©e, resonated deeply with Zauner. Much like Zauner, Elverum processed his grief through music, providing a heart-wrenching body of work that people with similar situations can see their experiences in. The highly personal way Elverum handles his music, album and merchandise is another aspect Zauner admires.
Naturally, Zauner is drawn to music with literary qualities. Aside from Berman, Elverum and Callahan, she also cited Kate Bush, Bjork, and Joanna Newsom as favorites. As for literature, she stated that she reads Richard Ford’s Rock Springs and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping probably once a year. Other influences include Joan Didion’s books on grief: The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. On the subject of food, Zauner listed M.F.K. Fisher’s Consider the Oyster and The Gastronomical Me, Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone, and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as books that have influenced her in writing her own memoirs. While talking about her influences, Zauner was noticeably enthusiastic, pointing out the aspects she appreciates most about each book.
Reconciliation and solace
On Crying in H Mart, Zauner presents an intimate look into a mother-daughter relationship with all its tender and tense aspects. Of course, food also plays a pivotal role; as a symbol of a mother’s love, as something to remember a loved one with, as a connecting thread to one’s cultural legacy. While Zauner is insistent that hers is a specific and personal story, it resonated deeply with readers, resulting in a lot of intense fan interactions—many of whom shared passages of the book with their own mothers.
Even though Zauner had some apprehensions in conveying parts of her culture to the world for fear of misrepresenting them, the book actually spoke to the common Asian experience. This is something Zauner hoped for, as she experienced it before when watching the Hulu show PEN15 and relating to it. While it may not always be comfortable, she is well aware of her status as one of the Asian-American figures people look up to. There’s a sense of honor and pressure that goes along with the realization, something that Zauner doesn't want all the time but understands why it has to be the way it is right now. What she’s looking forward to is having more Asian-American figures, so that the responsibilities don’t fall only on a handful of people.
A chapter of her book called “Living and Dying” was the most difficult part for Zauner to write. The chapter is about going back to Korea after discovering that her mother’s cancer was terminal, and her health deterioration afterwards. Asked whether writing the book was a form of coming to terms with losing her mother and by extension her Korean identity, Zauner answered with certainty that it was. “I was able to understand myself and my mother and our relationship so much deeper, spending the time writing this book and examining those things deeper.”
The act of writing the memoir is a symbolic end of Zauner’s grieving chapter. “For the past six years, I feel like I haven’t been able to embrace and give myself permission to feel joy. [...] Sometimes you need to pause and remind yourself to embrace and feel that,” concluded Zauner.
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This marks BTS' second consecutive week topping Billboard's new music poll. Last week, the septet was crowned the winner with the original release of "Butter," bringing in more than 72% of the vote.
BTS released "Butter" on May 21 and shortly after slid onto the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where the boy band took home four awards, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for some smooth performances.
The song has also been heating up streaming services, after the song whipped up the largest single-day streams for a song in Spotify's history with more than 20.9 million global streams and broke churned out two YouTube records.
Placing second on the past week's tally with nearly 18% of the vote was the "Anniversary Edition" of Juice WRLD's debut album, Goodbye & Good Riddance. The upgrade, arriving three years after the original, includes new song "734" and the Lil Uzi Vert-assisted remix of the late artist's Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit "Lucid Dreams."
See the final results of this week's new music release poll below.
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Signposted by its record-breaking early numbers, BTS’ “Butter” earns #1 on this week’s Global YouTube Music Videos and Songs Charts.
The music video, which set the records for biggest premiere and opening day in YouTube history, amassed 235 million views during the May 21-27 tracking period. The figure convincingly ranks as the week’s greatest sum, earning “Butter” #1 on the Music Videos Chart.
The Billboard Music Awards performance also made a mark, earning #4 on the Videos chart with 29.6 million views.
With views from other eligible uploads included, “Butter” amassed 310 million total YouTube streams during the tracking week. Said figure yields the #1 debut on the Songs Chart.
Thanks to the debut week success of “Butter” and enduring interest in the group’s overall catalog, BTS earns #1 on this week’s Global YouTube Artists Chart with 549 million total plays.
No matter what metrics anybody looks at, one thing is clear: BTS’s “Butter” is a massive hit on every platform it’s available on. The track is racking up incredible streaming sums and is surely selling incredibly well, but it’s on YouTube where the tune’s official video is performing not just better than any other upload on the site, but leading the charge by a huge margin.
“Butter” ends its first week of availability as the most-watched video on YouTube, and it wasn’t a close race at all. The must-see clip racked up an incredible 235 million views in its first week on the platform, according to the site’s weekly charts. That number incorporates watches from all countries, and it’s clear that the band has fans in every nation.
BTS’s latest monster release is in a very, very distant first place among all the most popular videos on YouTube in the past week, as the title that winds up at No. 2, Jubin Nautiyal’s “Lut Gaye,” only managed to earn 41.4 million plays in the most recent tracking frame. That means the South Korean septet’s new single beat the second-most-popular release on the platform this time around more than five times over.
As if coming in at No. 1 wasn’t enough of a show of dominance for BTS, the band also debuts another new clip at No. 4 on the weekly ranking of the most popular videos on YouTube. The vocal act’s performance of “Butter” at the Billboard Music Awards racked up an impressive 29.6 million plays, enough to make it the fourth-most-watched post of the week.
All the views “Butter” collected during its first week out will help it earn a lofty debut on the Hot 100 next week, as plays on that site are counted into where a track ranks, alongside proper downloads, streams on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music and radio play. “Butter” is largely expected to open in first place on the all-genre tally, and if it does, it will become the K-pop group’s fourth leader on the chart and their third song to open in first place.
Article From & Read More ( BTS’s ‘Butter’ Music Video Is The Biggest In The World By An Enormous Margin - Forbes )This K-pop group earns millions of streams on music platforms like Spotify. They also earn billions of views for their music videos, released on YouTube by HYBE Corporation. From “Dynamite” to “Boy With Luv,” here are some of BTS’ most popular videos on the platform.
This music video was overflowing with color, making it the perfect addition to the Map of the Soul: Persona era for BTS. Additionally, this song was the K-pop group’s first collaboration with Halsey.
The artist appeared in the song’s official music video, dancing alongside RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. Since its release, the “Boy With Luv” music video earned over a billion views on YouTube.
This music video, initially released in 2017, features some of BTS’ iconic dance moves as well as bright colors and fun outfits. “DNA” appears as the second track for their fifth mini-album, Love Yourself: Her. It was produced, in part, by some of the BTS members, including rappers Suga and RM.
As the K-pop group’s most popular music video, “DNA” currently holds over 1.2 billion views on the video platform. This song is also one of BTS’ most popular tracks from Love Yourself: Answer, with over 100 million plays on the streaming platform, Spotify.
They light up the music charts like “Dynamite.” BTS released this single during August 2020, later adding it to their album, Be (Deluxe Edition), also released during 2020. This song broke records for several reasons.
“Dynamite” was BTS’ first all-English single. It was also their first song to earn a Grammy nomination, with the group later performing “Dynamite” at the award ceremony. This single also broke streaming records for the K-pop group.
“We can confirm that BTS (ë°©íìë ëš) ‘Dynamite’ Official MV set a new all-time 24hr record, surpassing 100 million views with 101.1 million views in the first 24 hours,” a YouTube spokesman said in an email to Variety.
The music video for “MIC Drop” comes in just under 1 billion views on YouTube, as the group’s fourth most popular video on the platform. This is also one of the songs that the boy band performed on Saturday Night Live.
Two of the most recently released music videos for this group include those for “Life Goes On” and “Butter. “Butter” also broke the group’s previous record for the number of views within 24 hours. ”
The “Life Goes On” music video by BTS is now available for streaming on YouTube. The K-pop group’s deluxe album, titled Be, is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and most major streaming platforms.
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Pop Smoke won five awards, including top Billboard 200 album for Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon. This is the fourth time in the past five years that a hip-hop album has won that award. (The sole exception was Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? last year.) Pop Smoke, who died in February 2020, also won top new artist. He's the first artist to win that award posthumously.
BTS won four awards, bringing their BBMA total to date to an impressive nine. They won top duo/group for the second time in three years. BTS also took top social artist for the fifth consecutive year. The group is just one year behind Bieber’s six-year hold on the award from 2011-16.
Bad Bunny won four awards, including top Latin artist for the second year in a row. He’s the fourth artist to win back-to-back awards in that category since the BBMAs resumed in 2011. The first three were Shakira, Romeo Santos and Ozuna. Bad Bunny swept the artist, album and song awards in Latin. That was the only genre outside of R&B where one artist swept all three of those awards. (The Weeknd swept in R&B.)
Gabby Barrett won three awards, including top country song for her solo version of “I Hope” and top collaboration for her collab version of the song, which featured Charlie Puth.
Drake won two awards: top streaming artist and a special award for artist of the decade.
Swift won two awards: top female artist and top Billboard 200 artist, each for the fourth time. That’s a new record for the most wins in both of those categories.
Lady Gaga won two awards: top dance/electronic artist and top dance/electronic album -- each for the first time in nine years. She won in those categories in 2011 and 2012, before going on to make her mark in many other worlds, including traditional pop and film acting.
Kanye West won two awards, including top gospel artist for the second year in a row. West has won six of his 11 BBMAs in gospel or Christian categories. West and Travis Scott shared the award for top gospel song, “Wash Us in the Blood.” That’s Scott’s first BBMA.
Carrie Underwood’s My Gift won top Christian album. This is Underwood's 12th BBMA. Fifteen years ago, her debut album, Some Hearts, won both album of the year and country album of the year. Underwood won her first BBMA in a Christian category six years ago when “Something in the Water” took top Christian song.
Machine Gun Kelly won two awards, including top rock artist. MGK is the just the second solo artist to win in that category since the show resumed in 2011. Hozier won in 2015.
Morgan Wallen won three awards, including top country artist and top country album, awards won the last two years by Luke Combs. Wallen wasn’t part of the show, a consequence of his caught-on-video use of the N-word earlier this year.
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SBS’s “Taxi Driver” went out on top!
On May 29, “Taxi Driver” successfully ended its run at the top of its time slot. According to Nielsen Korea, the series finale of the popular drama scored average nationwide ratings of 10.9 percent and 15.3 percent for its two parts, with a peak of 18 percent in its most-watched minute.
Not only was “Taxi Driver” the most-watched miniseries of the entire week, but it also achieved the fourth-highest ratings of any Friday-Saturday drama in SBS history, bested only by “The Penthouse 2,” “The Fiery Priest,” and “Stove League.”
Meanwhile, tvN’s “Mine” reached a new all-time high in viewership with its latest episode, which scored an average nationwide rating of 8.6 percent and took first place in its time slot across all channels.
MBN’s “Bossam: Steal the Fate” also achieved its highest Saturday ratings to date, scoring a nationwide average of 6.9 percent for its latest episode.
JTBC’s “Undercover” remained stable with an average nationwide rating of 3.8 percent, while KBS 2TV’s “Revolutionary Sisters” continued its reign as the most-watched program to air on any channel on Saturday with average nationwide ratings of 25.0 percent and 28.8 percent for its two parts.
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Mark Wahlberg remembers his past lives in the first trailer for his new action movie Infinite. Over the last several years, Mark Wahlberg has become a veteran of the action movie genre. He's starred in real-life-inspired adventures like Deepwater Horizon, joined the Transformers franchise for two installments, and launched new original franchise attempts like Mile 22 and Spenser Confidential. Wahlberg's latest effort to show what he can bring to the genre pairs him up with director Antoine Fuqua for Infinite.
Originally set to star Chris Evans, Wahlberg eventually joined Infinite to work with Fuqua in adapting D. Eric Maikranz's novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The movie features a great cast of action movie veterans ranging from Maze Runner's Dylan O'Brien, Doctor Strange's Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Kingsman's Sophie Cookson. After completing filming in 2019, Paramount Pictures planned to release Infinite in theaters in the summer of 2020 and hopefully see it become a new franchise. These plans changed substantially due to COVID-19, and will now see the movie skip theaters for a Paramount+ release.
Paramount didn't get a chance to release an Infinite trailer prior to delaying the movie to 2021. Now that the release plan for the movie is confirmed, the studio has started its marketing campaign at long last. Paramount finally released the first trailer for Infinite that offers the first look at Mark Wahlberg's action movie. The two-and-a-half-minute trailer shows Wahlberg as Evan McCauley and beginning to remember his past lives. Infinite will release exclusively on Paramount+ on June 10, 2021.
The majority of Infinite's trailer focuses on the interrogation between Chiwetel Ejiofor's character and Wahlberg's McCauley. It isn't until the end of this moment that McCauley begins to remember his past lives by seeing artifacts that he has history with. However, it appears that Ejiofor is the villain of the movie and that McCauley is rescued by a group of others with memories of their past lives, known as the Infinites.
Possibly the biggest surprise of Infinite's trailer is just how little action is actually featured. The jail-break sequence where McCauley escapes from Ejiofor's character is the biggest set-piece shown. There is sure to be more than a few car chases when it comes to Infinite's action, and Wahlberg holding a sword near the end could be a tease of what else the movie might include. Fuqua has plenty of experience directing various types of action scenes and Wahlberg is no stranger to performing them either. Paramount could be waiting to reveal more of the action for a second trailer. With Infinite moving exclusively to Paramount+, it'll need to be a huge hit for the streaming service if this is going to become more than a standalone story.
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BTS’s “Butter” has officially been out for one week now, and to the surprise of absolutely nobody who pays even remote attention to pop music, it has gotten off to an explosive start on streaming services, posting the biggest seven-day streaming total in Spotify history—sort of.
The Korean pop septet’s delectable new single collected 99.37 million Spotify streams in its first seven days, according to the platform’s stream counter. It cruised past the 100 million mark on its eighth day (May 28), lifting its total to 110.481 million. It’s the fastest song to hit 100 million streams in Spotify history, and the biggest first-week total ever, according to the stream counter.
But there’s a catch. Spotify appears to have heavily (and I mean heavily) filtered the streams for “Butter” when tabulating its “official” total, far more than other streaming smashes of a similar caliber. “Butter” officially earned 11,042,335 global Spotify streams in its first day, the biggest song debut ever and the ninth-biggest single-day total in the platform’s history. That number is nothing to scoff at, but it pales in comparison to the roughly 20.9 million first-day streams that appeared on the Spotify counter, according to Chart Data. That would give “Butter” the biggest single-day streaming total in Spotify history, bar none, by more than 3 million streams, obliterating the record currently held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (17,223,237 streams on Dec. 24, 2020).
Alas, when the official first-day total for “Butter” came out, Spotify had shaved off nearly 50% of its reported streams. Streaming services implement filtering as a safeguard against “low-quality” streams, i.e. songs that are looped ad nauseum or played on mute or super low volume in an obvious attempt to juice the numbers.
While repeat streams from a passionate fan base would typically be seen as a positive, they could actually hurt BTS. Music Business Worldwide reports that “only the first 10 plays of a track by each user on the platform [Spotify] are chart-eligible within each 24 hour period.”
Spotify is less precise in the explanation on its own website, claiming only to use “a formula that protects against any artificial inflation of chart positions.” As a result, “the data might look different from other reported stream numbers we share (e.g. in Spotify for Artists, the desktop app, and other custom usage reports).”
While some degree of foul play certainly happens with all popular streaming hits, the claim that nearly half the first-day streams for “Butter” would be low-quality or “fake” seems dubious—especially when you consider that the “Butter” music video earned the biggest premiere and the biggest 24-hour debut in YouTube history (3.9 million and 108.2 million, respectively). Unfortunately, companies like Spotify and YouTube are unlikely to reveal exactly how they calculate streaming totals and suss out low-quality streams, forcing journalists to use their own deduction skills or get friendly with music industry insiders. (Spotify did not immediately respond to my request for comment, but I’ll update this article accordingly if they do.)
So, here’s the bad news: The first-week “filtered” streaming total for “Butter” is 58,122,349, according to Spotify Charts, roughly 59% of the “raw” total of 99.37 million. Now here’s the good news: It’s still a vast improvement over “Dynamite,” which earned 39,904,687 filtered Spotify streams in its first week. “Butter” also reached 200 million YouTube views in record time (five days, according to Chart Data) and now sits at a healthy 257 million and counting, and it is reportedly the first song by an international group to be added by every U.S. pop radio station in its first week of release.
In other words: Even if streaming services are excessively filtering “Butter”—which I cannot confirm, nor do I expect to confirm in the future, as streaming services are notoriously tight-lipped about the particulars of their calculations—it’s still outperforming its chart-topping predecessors by nearly every metric. Factor in the inevitably robust first-week downloads (two versions of “Butter” occupied the top two slots on the iTunes song chart in its first tracking week, with a new remix now climbing the charts as well), and “Butter” is going to have a mammoth debut.
Whether BTS’s new song dethrones Olivia Rodrigo’s streaming juggernaut “Good 4 U” on the Hot 100 remains to be seen—and eagle-eyed fans should expect an excruciating wait for the charts to refresh this week, given the holiday weekend and the potentially tight race for No. 1. But no matter how the Hot 100 shakes out next week, BTS have earned themselves another win. Butter Summer has arrived.
This article has been updated with information about Spotify’s streaming calculation formulas from both Spotify and Music Business Worldwide.
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