K-pop Diaries

“...Gurira beat out Avengers: Infinity War’s Chris Hemsworth, Jurassic World star Chris Pratt, Deadpool 2’s Ryan Reynolds, and her Black Panther co-star, Chadwick Boseman, for the honor.”

“Thank you for affirming that women and girls, when they are given the chance to hang with the boys, can hang with the best of them…”

BTS’s “Fake Love” has achieved another milestone in record time! Their “Fake Love” music video reached 100 million views on YouTube at approximately 2:45 a.m. KST on May 27. As it was originally released on May 18 at 6 p.m. KST, this means that the MV hit this milestone in eight days, eight hours, and 45 minutes. They have beaten their own record for the fastest K-pop group music video to achieve 100 million views, which was previously held by “DNA” at a little over 24 days. 

“Fake Love” is also notably BTS’s 13th music video to hit the 100 million mark on YouTube, after “Dope,” “Fire,” “Blood, Sweat & Tears,” “Boy in Luv,” “Save Me,” “Not Today,” “Spring Day,” “DNA,” “Danger,” “I Need U,” “War of Hormone,” and “MIC Drop” remix. Not only has it beaten many MV records for K-pop groups, “Fake Love” was also confirmed to have garnered the third highest number of views on a MV in YouTube history. Congratulations to BTS and ARMYs! Celebrate with another viewing of the music video!

BTS has already sold 1 million copies of their new album “Love Yourself: Tear”! The group’s latest album came out on May 18, and features the title track “Fake Love.” “Love Yourself: Tear” reached 1 million copies sold according to Hanteo’s sales tally on the afternoon of May 24. This is the highest number of albums recorded on Hanteo in the first week since release, ever since the chart’s creation in 1993. It breaks the record set by BTS’s “Love Yourself: Her” of 759,263 copies sold in its first week. It also means that BTS now has the title of “Double Million Seller,” after “Love Yourself: Her” also reached 1 million copies sold last year. A source from Hanteo told news outlet No Cut News, “Hanteo’s album ranking is the only system in the world that reflects the number of copies really sold in realtime.” They added, “BTS’s record of reaching 1 million copies sold in the first week since release is very meaningful in Korea’s popular music history.” Congratulations to BTS!