Amidst the comebacks this September, BTS is making headlines with their latest title track “DNA”! Released on their fifth mini-album, Love Yourself: Her, the new song (and album) has been claiming records left and right! Despite leaks before its release on September 18th, the group did not falter.
What has the Billboard-holder earned in the first 24 hours of release?
1. Fastest Kpop artist to reach 10 million views on YouTube (also with 1 million likes!)
Kpop records: Top 9 fastest Kpop group to reach 10 million views on Youtube MV video: #BTS 🔥🔥🔥, #BLACKPINK 💪💪, #TWICE, #EXO 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/bs3kt6EbZA
— Kpop on Charts (@SerieTV46) September 18, 2017
Not only that— BTS trended first on YouTube in several countries!
2. Bringing home a YouTube-record of 21 million views in 24 hours
As of 24 hours since its release, BTS had racked up a total of 21 million views!
They also claimed the fastest Kpop artist to reach 20 million views on YouTube!
BTS 'DNA' Music Video have reached 20 million views in 21 hours! keep streaming guys we have 3 hours left https://t.co/3d1N8czb6G #BTS #DNA pic.twitter.com/BuD5otRitr
— BTS Malaysia 🇲🇾 (@BTSMalaysia) September 19, 2017
3. Beating the 22-hour-and-47-minute record of 100k+ likes on MelOn
[!] @BTS_twt have broken the record for the fastest artist ever to reach 100K+ likes on Melon with 'DNA' in 8 hours.
[#BTS_DNA_TODAY] pic.twitter.com/G7TAbDVWuD
— worldwideBTS (Rest) (@btsanalytics) September 18, 2017
They even got themselves an all-kill on MelOn!
https://twitter.com/BusanKinqs/status/909841831810224128
4. Earning their rightful spot on Spotify’s Global Top 50 Chart
https://twitter.com/jintoxicated/status/910097629341609985
5. Topping iTunes’s album charts in 73 countries and song charts in 29!
https://twitter.com/MikeAdamOnAir/status/910268112523710464
Don’t forget their first-place spot on iTunes’s song and album charts worldwide!
#1 SONG & #1 ALBUM WW SIMULTANEOUSLY. BTS DID THAT. pic.twitter.com/w0f8QdyJEe
— 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞 (@buteracypher) September 18, 2017
6. Dominating Twitter’s list of Worldwide Trends, Popular Articles, and Twitter Moments
https://twitter.com/cypherptday6/status/909718959229931520
https://twitter.com/TwitterMoments/status/909823426440957952
https://twitter.com/TwitterMoments/status/909814682214641664
7. Claiming 2nd on Amazon’s Best-Sellers for Top Digital Albums
Currently LOVE YOURSELF: Her by @BTS_twt is No. 2 in U.S. on Amazon's Digital Albums: Top Paid.
Amazon: https://t.co/gCoWI9tNJ6 pic.twitter.com/7SwAyagqFy
— BTS on Billboard ⁷ (REST) (@BTS_Billboard) September 18, 2017
8. Becoming the 1st Kpop group to dominate iTunes’s album chart in the UK
https://twitter.com/ftnamjxon/status/909838960263929856
9. Becoming the 1st Kpop group to make Canada’s TOP 10 and play on mainstream radio
@BTS_twt is now the 1st K-Pop group to ever be played on mainstream Canadian radio & the 1st K-Pop group to reach TOP10 on Canadian charts!
— BTS Canada ⁷ (@Canada_BTS) September 19, 2017
10. Becoming the 1st Kpop group to earn the highest number of combined album sales in a day, sales on any day, & weekly sales on Hanteo (and 4th on their yearly chart!)
[HANTEO] @BTS_twt
Pre-release: 5234
9.19 D1: 450659
TOTAL: 455893KPOP HIGHEST:
📌D1 SALES
📌SALES ON ANY DAY
📌WEEKLY SALES📌YEARLY CHART #4 pic.twitter.com/qLGcHWaMsa
— ATTACK ON BANGTAN (@AttackonBTS_CHN) September 19, 2017
They broke 10 records, all in one day! It seems like BTS is definitely out to conquer, aren’t they? The number of records for their first day of release was killer after their 1 million pre-orders of Love Yourself— not including international sales!
What else would you add to the list? Let us know the comment section below!
Sarah (sapphir3bluu) is a writer for WTK from Las Vegas and fond of cats, k-pop, and singing. She enjoys learning new languages and is manager of Super Junior fanbase, WorldwideELFs, but has also done subbing work for EXO. If you don’t find her being slowly consumed by BTS, GOT7, NCT, and ASTRO, she is aspiring to go to graduate school and work in the health care field.
Media: Big Hit Entertainment