The music video for the group Baby Monster‘s pre-debut song ‘BATTER UP’ has surpassed 300 million views on YouTube.
According to their agency YG Entertainment on the 5th, Baby Monster’s ‘BATTER UP’ music video surpassed 300 million views on YouTube at 11:44 p.m. the previous day. This achievement was made about 1 year and 2 months after its release on November 27, 2023.
Immediately after its release, the music video ranked first on the global YouTube daily music video chart for 5 consecutive days amidst an enthusiastic response from music fans, immediately taking the top spot on the weekly chart. Riding the momentum, it quickly reached 100 million views (on the 18th) and 200 million views (on the 53rd), showing an unusually high level of popularity.
With this, Baby Monster now has two videos with over 300 million views out of eight YouTube contents with hundreds of millions of views. The music video for their first mini-album, ‘SHEESH’, previously achieved the same number of views in approximately 186 days, breaking the record for the shortest time for a K-pop girl group debut song to reach 100 million views (10 days) and 200 million views (33 days).
Baby Monster‘s official channel also surpassed 8.35 million subscribers and 3.7 billion cumulative views. With the music videos for songs from their recent full-length first album [DRIP] receiving positive responses and each content they appear in continuing to garner explosive views, their influence as the next-generation ‘YouTube Queens’ is expected to become even more solid.
Baby Monster will expand their global base through their first world tour since their debut, ‘2025 BABYMONSTER 1st WORLD TOUR
’. After successfully completing their first concert in Seoul at the mecca of K-pop, KSPO DOME, they will head to the US, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, etc. to meet their fans in a total of 14 cities, 23 times.
Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com
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