“[마이데일리=김나라 기자] Group BLACKPINK’s new song ‘Pink Venom’ broke another record on YouTube, letting the world know of their successful comeback.
According to their agency YG Entertainment on the afternoon of the 20th, the music video for BLACKPINK’s ‘Pink Venom’ surpassed 100 million YouTube views as of 6:35PM.
This feat was reached in about 29 hours and 35 minutes since it was released at 1PM of the 19th, becoming the fastest K-POP girl group music video to reach 100 million views.
The previous record holder was also BLACKPINK with their ‘How You Like That’ music video (32 hours and 23 minutes). The music video for ‘Pink Venom’ reached the feat three hours earlier, breaking the new record they set.
The number of subscribers on their YouTube channel is also increasing faster. The number of subscribers on their channeled increased by 1 million after the release of the ‘Pink Venom’ music video. Currently, it has more than 77.7 million subscribers, and they’re expected to reach 80 million subscribers soon.
‘Pink Venom’ is a pre-release single from BLACKPINK’s second full-album. ‘Pink Venom’ is a hip-hop genre song that stresses BLACKPINK’s original charisma. Korean traditional sounds create perfect harmony with intense beat from the intro, and the powerful rap and strong vocals intensifies the charm all 4 members have.
On the first day of its release, the song topped the iTunes chart in 73 countries including the U.S. and UK, topping the world wide song chart. It also proved its unrivaled popularity by sweeping various charts of QQ Music, China’s largest music chart, such as downloads, popularity, and music video chart.
BLACKPINK now has a total of 33 videos that have more than hundreds of millions of views. The cumulative number of views on their YouTube channel now exceeds 25 billion, and among them, the ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ music video is heading toward becoming the first 2 billion view music video as a K-POP group.”
2022. 8. 20. —yg-life.com