BTS’s 'Dope' surpasses 700 million views on YouTube

BTS's music video ″Dope″ surpassed 700 million views on YouTube Wednesday. [BIG HIT MUSIC]

BTS’s music video for its song “Dope” surpassed 700 million views on YouTube, according to the boy band's agency Big Hit Music Thursday.

The video broke the record at 4:37 p.m. Wednesday. It is the band’s ninth music video to accumulate over 700 million views.

The song, which was part of the EP “The most beautiful moment in life pt. 1,” was released in April 2015.

“Dope” is an electronic hip hop number with members singing about how it’s “swag” to practice hard and make good music even when others are partying. In the music video, the members turn into workers from a variety of fields such as a police officer, detective and an office worker, all dedicated to their work.

“Dope” was also the boy band’s first music video to surpass 100 million views.

BTS currently has 35 videos with over 100 million streams.

BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]