The music video for the debut song ‘Magnetic’ by the group ILLIT has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube.

According to the agency Belift Lab on the 18th, the music video for ‘Magnetic’, the title song of ILLIT‘s first mini-album ‘Super Real Me’, surpassed 200 million views at around 8:50 PM the previous day.

‘Magnetic’ is a dance genre song that mixes Pluggnb and House, and compares the feeling of running full speed toward someone you like to a magnet with the lyrics ‘super attraction’. The music video maximizes the pleasure of watching and listening by containing the members’ quirky and lovely appearances overly immersed in what they like, as well as the point choreography that was very popular in the short form.

The song caused a global craze as soon as it was released on March 25th of last year. ‘Magnetic’ not only swept the top of major domestic music charts, but also entered Billboard‘s main song chart, the ‘Hot 100’ (dated April 20th of last year) and the UK’s ‘Official Singles Top 100’ (dated April 5th), setting a new record for the first and fastest entry by a K-pop debut song.

It has been streamed over 540 million times on Spotify, the world‘s largest music streaming platform. ‘Magnetic’ is still a fixture at the top of major domestic music charts even as it approaches its first anniversary since its release.

Meanwhile, the theme song ‘Almond Chocolate’ of the Japanese movie ‘I Don’t Like You Just by Your Face’, sung by Ailit, was released on the 14th, and Ailit‘s sweet voice and bright and cheerful melody are captivating the ears and receiving good responses.

The song is doing well on major local charts, such as reaching #1 on the AWA Music Real-time Rising Chart and entering the upper ranks of the Oricon ‘Daily Digital Single Ranking’.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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