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​​*Dynamite is the 4th Overall Song in history and the first song by a Korean / Asian / Non-English Act to surpass 1 billion on Spotify, YouTube, and Gaon after Shape of You (2017), Havana (2017), and Bad Guy (2019). [Source]
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  1. ​​“Yet To Come” is the fastest music video teaser in history to reach 1M views on YouTube (~7 minutes). [Source]
  1. ​​Butter broke Dynamite’s record and has the biggest YouTube Premiere of all time, with over 3.9 million peak concurrents. [Source]
  1. ​​Butter broke Dynamite’s record and is the Most Viewed MV in the first 24 hours with 108.2 million views. [Source]
  1. ​​Dynamite is first MV to surpass 100M views within the 24 hours time slot.
  1. ​​BTS is the first artist to have 2 MVs surpass 100M views within the first 24 hours on YouTube (Dynamite, Butter). [Source]
  1. ​​BTS’ official videos gained over 145 million views on YouTube in one day, the most for any artist in history. They also broke the record for the most charting videos in a day on the most viewed videos chart, with 25 official videos charting. [Source]
  1. ​​Butter debuts at #1 on the Global YouTube Music Videos & Songs Charts with 310 million streams and 235 million views, making it the biggest weekly debut in the platform's history for any artist surpassing their own record. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS broke NPR Music’s Tiny Desk record for the most YouTube views by a video on its first day in just 25 minutes. The video also topped 1M views in 33 minutes. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​Film Out is the biggest first 24 hours views debut for a Japanese music video with 29.38M views. [Source]
  1. ​​Airplane pt.2 is the first Japanese MV by a Korean Act to get 200M views in YouTube. [Source]
  1. ​​"Dynamite" MV debuted at #1 on the global YouTube songs chart with 220M views and 287M listens, the biggest weekly debut in history for any artist. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​Dynamite got 21M streams on YouTube from the US in the first week, making it the biggest first week debut in the US for a Korean Group. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the only artist to have 5 MVs in the Top 10 Fastest MVs to reach 100M. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the only artist to have 5 MVs in the top 10 of the “most-viewed Music Videos in the first 24 hours”. [Source] 
  1. ​​Butter broke Dynamite’s record and is the fastest MV in history to reach 10M → 200M views. [Source]
  1. ​​Butter is the overall 2nd fastest MV (after LWUMMD) and the fastest MV by a group and Asian Act to reach 300M views on YT. [Source]
  1. ​​Dynamite is the fastest MV by a group and Asian Act to reach 400M and 500M views on YT. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​Dynamite is the fastest MV by an Asian Act to reach 600M, 700M views and fastest MV for a Korean Group to reach 800M, 900M on YT.
  1. ​​DNA is the 1st Korean Boy Group MV Ever To Hit 1 Billion Views. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the Group and Korean Act with the most MVs over 1 Billion views on YT (DNA, BWL, Dynamite, MDR, Fake Love, IDOL). [Source]
  1. ​​Dynamite is the fastest MV by a Korean Group to surpass 1 Billion Streams on YouTube in just "7" months. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Korean group to reach 350, 400M, 450M, 500M views for an MV. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the Most Viewed Artist on YouTube across all official releases (Kworb). [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the Group with the Most Views on YouTube (music only). [Source]
  1. ​​Fire was at #1 in the MOST viewed MAMA performance of 2016 on YouTube.
  1. ​​Cypher 4 + MIC Drop (remix) was at #1 in the MOST viewed MAMA performance of 2017 on YouTube. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the most watched Korean artist in Canada and USA.
  1. ​​BTS ranked #1 Most Streamed Group and #7 Most Streamed Artist on YouTube Global for 2018. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BWL came at #2 in the Most Liked Music Videos in 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​According to kworb, BTS was the #1 Top Streamed Artist of 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS was the only artist to reach 4B views in 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is at #3 in the Artists with the most official videos above 100M+ views on YouTube. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the most viewed group of all time on YouTube. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the Artist with the most MVs with >100M views.
  1. ​​BTS is the Group with the most MVs with 200M (32); 300M (23); 400M (19); 500M (17); 600M (13); 900M (8); 1B (6)
  1. ​​BTS ties as the Group with the most MVs with 700M (11) and 800M (8)
  1. ​​BTS is the first group to have 7 MVs with over 700M views. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS, Imagine dragons & Maroon 5 are the groups to have 5 MVs with over 650M views on YouTube. They are the first Korean act to achieve this. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first group in history to have 7, 8, 9 music videos surpass 600M views. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Asian Act to have 5 MVs with over 800M views. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Asian Act to surpass 9 → 22 billion views across music videos & dance practices. [Source]
  • ​​BTS is the First Group to surpass a total of 16 → 22 Billion views across music videos & dance practices. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Group and Asian Act to surpass 6 billion views in a single year (2020). [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS peaked at #1 in the Weekly Top Groups on YouTube (global). [Source]
  1. ​​The BANGBANGCON live streaming racked up 50.59M views in 24 hours in over 162 regions with 500k Army Bombs lit up. At its peak, it reached a concurrent audience of 2.24M. Audience members interacted socially, leading to 6.46M in hashtag engagements between Weverse and Twitter. [Source] [Source] [Source]