BTS’s 'MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)' music video surpasses 1.3 billion views

BTS’s music video for “MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)” (2017) surpassed 1.3 billion views. [BIGHIT MUSIC]

BTS’s music video for “MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)” (2017) surpassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube, BigHit Music said Tuesday.

The milestone was reached a minute after 4 p.m. the same day. It is the boy band’s fourth video to have been viewed more than 1.3 billion times, following “Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)” (2019), “Dynamite” (2021) and “DNA” (2017).

The original song was part of the EP “Love Yourself: Her” (2017), and the band later announced an additional remix version by American DJ Steve Aoki, which debuted at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It remained on the same chart for 10 weeks straight.

Aoki also features in the music video of the remix version of the song. The scene in which member Suga drops his microphone near the end of the video went viral online.

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]