Blackpink's ‘Ice Cream' racks up 400m views on YouTube
SEOUL: K-pop girl group Blackpink’s music video ‘Ice Cream’ has topped 400 million views on YouTube, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
The music video hit the milestone around 2 pm Monday, some 80 days after its release, according to YG Entertainment.
It is the quartet’s 10th music video that has surpassed the 400 million mark on the global videosharing website.
‘Ice Cream,’ featuring Selena Gomez, is a bubblegum pop track off the band’s latest album, titled ‘The Album.’
The song debuted at No. 13 on Billboard’s main singles chart in September, the highest position ever attained by a K-pop girl group, and remained on the chart for eight weeks.
Blackpink are currently the second most-subscribed global musician on YouTube, with 53.1 million subscribers, following Justin Bieber.
The group now has a total of 22 music videos with over 100 million views.
Last week, the quartet was chosen as ‘ the biggest band in the world’ on Bloomberg’s Pop Star Power Rankings, a first for an Asian musical act.
Meanwhile, the music video of ‘Dynamite,’ K-pop superstar BTS’ latest single, has surpassed 600 million views on YouTube, its agency said Tuesday.
The dance video reached the milestone Monday midnight, nearly three months after it was released on the video-sharing site on Aug 21, according to Big Hit Entertainment.
It is BTS’ ninth video to have achieved the feat, following ‘DNA,’ ‘Boy With Luv,’ ‘Fake Love,’ ‘MIC Drop Remix,’ ‘ Fire,’ ‘ Blood Sweat & Tears’ and ‘Dope.’
The disco-pop single ‘Dynamite’ has been breaking records since its release, garnering three Guinness World Records ( GWR) titles — the most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours, the most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours
and the most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours by a K-pop group.
The septet’s first Englishlanguage song has been on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven straight weeks, including three No. 1 positions.