It’s been 1 year since BTS released ‘Dynamite’, dominating both the US and Japanese music market and even breaking BLACKPINK’s YouTube record
BTS just celebrated the 1st anniversary of Dynamite’s debut and let’s take a look at the most outstanding achievements of this song.
1 year ago on August 21, 2020, BTS officially released the single ‘Dynamite’ (DayTime Version) including the title track ‘Dynamite’ and its 5 versions (instrumental, acoustic remix, EDM remix, tropical remix, and poolside remix).
‘Dynamite’ is considered the first English song of BTS that has a music video after more than 7 years of their debut. The song was produced and written by David Stewart and Jessica Agombar. The MV was also officially released at 1 pm (KST) the same day.
Only a short time after ít release, Dynamite has been recognized by many Kpop fans as a “mega-hit” thanks to a series of super achievements, records both domestic and abroad. Let’s review the most impressive achievements of this cult hit.
On Melon (Korea):
- No.1 real-time chart in 2021 hours, the longest in history.
- No.1 on 24Hits chart for 1815 hours, the longest in history.
- No.1 on daily chart for 75 days, longest in history.
- No.1 weekly chart for 11 weeks, the longest in history.
- No.1 monthy chart for 3 months, the longest in history.
- 420 thousand likes, the most in 2020.
On iChart (Korea):
- 610 hours of Perfect All-kill, the most in history.
- Second English song to achieve Perfect All-kill, after Let It Go (2013).
On weekly music programs (Korea): 32 trophies, the most in history.
- Show Champion: 3 trophies
- Music Bank: 16 trophies
- Show Music Core: 10 trophies
- Inkigayo: 3 trophies
On US Billboard:
- Debut no.1 Hot 100, the first song of an Asian group.
- Hold No.1 Hot 100 for 3 weeks.
- Stayed 32 weeks on the Hot 100, the longest-running song by an Asian artist on the chart.
- Debut no.1 Digital Song Sales.
On Billboard Japan:
- Debut no.7 Hot 100 after only 3 days.
- Peak no.2 Hot 100 for 4 weeks.
- Peak no.1 Top Streaming Songs.
- No.1 Radio Play Chart, the first song by a Korean artist.
On Spotify (global):
- The most-streamed song of the Korean artist in history
- The song with the highest debut stream in 2020
- The only song by a Korean artist to reach No.1 Global Spotify Chart.
One of Dynamite’s most impressive achievements is on YouTube. Previously, BLACKPINK‘s songs often led the milestones of hundreds of millions of views for Korean groups. However, BTS later dethroned the 4 YG girls and even broke the world record on this platform.
On YouTube (global):
- MV has the highest premiere views in history (over 3 million) as of August 2020.
- The only MV to reach more than 100 million views in the first 24 hours as of August 2020.
- The 2nd most viewed MV in 2020 (more than 1.2 billion), behind Drake’s Life Is Good.
- Most liked MV in the first 24 hours in history (over 8.81 million).
- 3rd most liked MV in history (over 30.1 million).
- MV with the most comments in history (more than 15.7 million).
- Achievements in terms of views:
- 100 million: Less than 24 hours, the 2nd fastest in history.
- 200 million: 4 days and 12 hours, the second fastest in history.
- 300 million: 15 days and 4 hours, the 3rd fastest in history.
- 400 million: 35 days and 9 hours, the fastest Korean artists.
- 500 million: 59 days and 20 hours, the fastest Korean artists.
- 600 million: 87 days and 12 hours, the fastest Korean artists.
- 700 million: 118 days and 10 hours, the fastest Korean artists.
- 800 million: 156 days, the fastest Korean group (surpassing BLACKPINK’s DDU-DU DDU-DU: 330 days).
- 900 million: 201 days, the fastest Korean group (surpassing BLACKPINK’s DDU-DU DDU-DU: 410 days).
- 1 billion: 234 days, the fastest Korean group (surpassing BLACKPINK’s DDU-DU DDU-DU: 514 days).
- 1.1 billion: 283 days, the fastest Korean group (surpassing BLACKPINK’s Kill This Love: 583 days).
- 1.2 billion: 350 days, the fastest Korean group (surpassing BLACKPINK’s Kill This Love: 675 days).
