MUSIC
BTS' 'Life Goes On' MV, 500 million views
According to Big Hit Music, the agency on the 25th, the number of views of the music video for the title song 'Life Goes On' of the album 'BE' released in November 2020 exceeded 500 million views at around 1:33 pm on this day. As a result, 'Life Goes On' became BTS' 16th music video to reach 500 million views.
'Life Goes On' is a song that conveys the comforting message that "life goes on" even though you are running hard and encounter a situation where you have no choice but to stop. It ranked first on the US Billboard main single chart 'Hot 100' (as of December 5, 2020). This is the only song in the 62-year history of the Billboard chart to reach the top of the 'Hot 100' with mainly Korean lyrics.
The music video for 'Life Goes On' is full of warmth throughout the video, from the members going about their daily lives to the scenes of them singing calmly. Jungkook became the music video director and released the video with his own sensibility, melting away the regret and longing of not being able to meet fans in person due to COVID-19.
Meanwhile, BTS has a total of 39 music videos with hundreds of millions of views, including 'Life Goes On', which recently surpassed 500 million views. ‘Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)’ and ‘Dynamite’ with 1.6 billion views each, ‘DNA’ with 1.5 billion views, ‘MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)’ with 1.3 billion views, 1.2 billion views each. ‘IDOL’ with 1.1 billion views, ‘FAKE LOVE’ with 900 million views, ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ with 900 million views, ‘Butter’ with 800 million views, ‘FIRE’ and ‘Dope’ with 700 million views each, 'Save ME', 'Not Today', 'Permission to Dance', 'ON' Kinetic Manifesto Film with 500 million views each, 'Spring Day', 'Life Goes On', 'Boy in Luv', 'Black' with 400 million views each Swan', 'War of Hormone' with over 300 million views each, 'ON', 'I NEED U' with 200 million views each, 'No More Dream', 'Dynamite' (Choreography ver.), 'Dynamite' B-side, ‘Just One Day’ and ‘Danger’, which each exceeded 100 million views, ‘We are bulletproof PT.2’, ‘RUN’, ‘Serendipity’, ‘Singularity’, ‘IDOL (Feat. Nicki Minaj)’, ‘I NEED’ U' (Original ver), 'Ego', 'Interlude: Shadow', 'Epiphany', 'NO', 'Butter (Hotter Remix)', 'Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)', 'Boy with Luv' (Boy With Luv) (feat. Halsey)' (ARMY With Luv ver).
Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr
