Blackpink’s 'Boombayah' music video surpasses 1.2 billion views on YouTube

K-pop

Published: 08 Jun. 2021, 15:35 Updated: 08 Jun. 2021, 15:41

Blackpink’s 'Boombayah' music video surpasses 1.2 billion views on YouTube

Girl group Blackpink [YG ENTERTAINMENT]

Girl group Blackpink’s music video for its 2016 debut song “Boombayah” surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube, according to YG Entertainment on Tuesday.

The agency announced that the music video for “Boombayah” reached 1.2 billion views on YouTube around 10:29 a.m. on Tuesday, becoming the group's third music video to do so.

Blackpink’s music videos for “Ddu-du Ddu-du" (2018) and “Kill This Love" (2019) have also garnered 1.6 billion and 1.3 billion views each on YouTube.

“Boombayah” is also nearing 300 million streams on music streaming platform Spotify.

Blackpink has released several hit tracks including “Playing with Fire” (2016), “Forever Young” (2018) and “Lovesick Girls” (2020) since its debut.

BY HALEY YANG [yang.hyunjoo@joongang.co.kr]