BTS’s single 'Idol' surpasses 1.2 billion views on YouTube

BTS’s 2018 hit “Idol” music video reaches 1.2 billion views on YouTube on Thursday [BIGHIT MUSIC]

The music video for BTS’s 2018 hit “Idol” surpassed 1.2 billion views on YouTube on Thursday, the boy band’s agency BigHit Music said.

“Idol” is the lead track of the band’s 2018 album “Love Yourself: Answer.” The album landed at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart upon release.

The music video takes place in a Euro-Asian architectural environment with traditional Korean styles mixed in. It won the Music Video of 2018 award at the E! People’s Choice Awards the year it was released.

The boy band now has five music videos that have surpassed 1.2 billion views — “Boy With Luv” (2019) currently has 1.6 billion views, “Dynamite” (2020) with 1.5 billion views, “DNA” (2017) with 1.3 billion views and “MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)" with 1.3 billion views.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]