{"id":575041,"date":"2026-07-30T06:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:49:11","slug":"bts-idol-music-video-tops-1-4-bil-youtube-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575041\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; &#8216;Idol&#8217; music video tops 1.4 bil. YouTube views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/62cf9c8f-7526-48eb-bc1e-7c9053e8dd04.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"K-pop boy group BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-pop boy group BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The music video for K-pop supergroup BTS&#8217; 2018 hit &#8220;Idol&#8221; has surpassed 1.4 billion views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The video hit the milestone at about 9:20 p.m., becoming the band&#8217;s fifth music video with more than 1.4 billion views, according to the group&#8217;s agency, BigHit Music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Idol&#8221; is the lead track off &#8220;Love Yourself: Answer,&#8221; the repackaged version of the group&#8217;s third full-length album, &#8220;Love Yourself: Tear,&#8221; released in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The song blends South African house beats with traditional Korean rhythmic patterns and call-and-response chants known as &#8220;chuimsae,&#8221; typically shouted by audiences in traditional Korean performances to encourage performers. In &#8220;Idol,&#8221; the group incorporates these chants as part of the lyrics themselves, creating a fusion that resonated globally while retaining a distinctly Korean identity<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The song is also included in the setlist of BTS&#8217; ongoing &#8220;ARIRANG&#8221; world tour, which began in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop boy group BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music The music video for K-pop supergroup BTS&#8217; 2018 hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-575041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}