On September 18, BTS revealed their music video for their Title Track "DNA" and their comeback album “Love Yourself: Her.” The album consists of nine tracks with two hidden tracks for the physical album. This includes their title track with EDM-Pop style "DNA." There are "Intro: Serendipity," "Best of Me" (co-created with Andrew Taggart of The Chainsmokers,) "Dimple," "Pied Piper," and "Go Go." "MIC Drop" is a skit entitled “Billboard Music Awards Speech” and there is "Outro: Her."
In just 24 hours after its release on Youtube, it became the most viewed K-Pop Music video of a girl or boy group with 20.9 million views and 1 million likes.
It broke their own record of 11 million views with the music video of "Not Today". It also grabbed the record for the fastest K-pop group to hit 20 million views on Youtube. The previous record was held by Blackpink's "As If It's Your Last" with 13 million views in 24 hours. BTS title track "DNA" also became the fastest Kpop group to achieve 10 million views on Youtube in just 8 hours after its release and 30 million views in less than 48 hours.
'DNA' is breaking records
After becoming the fastest group to reach 30 million views and hitting the No. 1 music trend on Youtube after its release, their title track "DNA" became the first K-pop musician to enter the Spotify's Global Top 50 Playlist.
It also took the 11th spot of the most viewed video on Youtube. This meant they came in above huge hits such as Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball,” Nicki Minaj‘s “Anaconda,” and Taylor Swift‘s “Bad Blood.” It became the first Kpop to enter Top 15 most viewed videos on Youtube.
BTS also topped No. 1 on iTunes album charts of 73 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand after they release their hyped album "Love Yourself: Her".
Currently, the MV has 35 million views on Youtube.
'Love Yourself: Her' album sales
It was previously noted that the BTS album "Love Yourself: Her," achieved 1 million pre-order sales before its release. On September 20, Hanteo Chart confirmed that the K-Pop group created a new record with their first-day album sales of 455,888 copies.
KST offline sales started on September 19. Their previous album "You Never Walk Alone" sold more than 370,000 copies in its first week of release. The number of copies sold with their newest album 'Love Yourself: Her" is pretty impressive which means that BTS is very much loved and popular all over the world.
Check their MV for "DNA" below.
