The new music video from South Korean teen group BLACKPINK became the biggest music debut of 2022 on YouTube in the first 24 hours.
“Pink Venom” reached an impressive 86.2 million views on its first day of airing, between midnight Thursday (8/18) and midnight Friday (8/19) on the video portal, according to the public count. of the platform. With that, the group broke its own record.
The performance makes the production the fourth most viewed clip in 24 hours of all time on YouTube, right after BLACKPINK’s previous record-breaking clip “How You Like That,” which reached 86.3 million views in June 2020. The top two places are taken by another K-Pop phenomenon: BTS, which racked up 101.1 million views for “Dynamite” in 2020 and 108.2 million views for “Butter” last year.
But BLACKPINK has one more song than BTS in the Top 5. “Ice Cream”, a collaboration with Selena Gomez, is in 5th place with 79.0 million views as of August 2020.
It is worth noting that the momentum of “Pink Venom” is far from waning. In 30 hours, the clip crossed the 100 million view mark in 30 hours.
Fans of the group, known as “Blinks”, also gave “Pink Venom” 6 million likes during the initial release window on YouTube.
Thus, everything indicates that the new song will join the hits of “Kill This Love” and “How You Like That”, which have already been seen more than 1 billion times on the video platform.
“Pink Venom” is the group’s first new song in two years since the release of “The Album”, their first studio album, which produced hits like “How You Like That” and “Lovesick Girls”.
The new song is part of the “Born Pink” album, due out on September 16th and which has already amassed over 1.5 million pre-orders. So here’s another record.
Elected on Friday (19/8) as “the largest female group in the world” by the American magazine “Time”, the quartet formed by the singers Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa will also participate in the VMA 2022, an award of MTV where they compete in the Best category . The Metaverse performance and singer Lisa is still in the running for the Best K-pop award for her solo single “LALISA”.
The event scheduled for August 28 will serve to present “Pink Venom” live for the first time, as well as mark the group’s debut in the American MTV main event.
Source: Terra
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