Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBTS Army has done it: The K-pop idols’ new video for “Dynamite” has set a new YouTube record for views in the first 24 hours of release.The upbeat, dance-y and vivid music video from BTS was released on YouTube Friday, Aug.
21, at 12 a.m. ET/1 p.m. KST. By 8:35 p.m. ET (9:35 a.m. KST on Saturday), “Dynamite” had registered more than 86.4 million views on YouTube.
That has pushed it ahead of the prior record holder: Blackpink’s “How You Like That,” which two months ago racked up an official tally of 86.3 million views in the first 24 hours.What’s more, BTS — with its extraordinarily passionate fanbase (aka BTS Army) — still has nearly three and a half hours left to pad its lead with “Dynamite,” and may even.
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