dynamite and its impact on pop culture a thread:

BTS announced the release of their surprise brand new single and first full english titled ‘DYNAMITE’ will be released on august 21st during a vlive.

after this, they teased the release of their upcoming single by changing the header and the profile pictures on all their SNS.

from august 2nd to august 15th the group’s label ‘Bighit’ dropped several individual and group teasers of dynamite which quickly gained 1m likes on twitter in less than 24 hours and a huge amount on FB, doing it faster than their previous photo concepts from their album MOTS7.

they also gained 1M likes on instagram, taehyung and jimin’s dynamite individual teasers became the fastest pictures from korean male singers to reach 1m likes (34 & 30min).+

+the group’s picture (one below) also reached 1m likes on instagram in 25 minutes, becoming one of the fastest pictures on the platform to reach this milestone.

on august 17th, dynamite surpassed, 1M pre saves on dynamite.

bts dropped the official teaser on august 19th. the teaser broke several records : the fastest MV teaser to reach 1M likes and it gained +30M views & 3.7M likes, becoming the most viewed and liked MV teaser in 24hrs

D-Day: dynamite’ was released on august 21ST and the song instantly became a major hit. the official MV surpassed 1M likes on youtube minutes before the official release. it also became the fastest music video in history to hit 10, 20, 30, 40, 50M views on youtube.

dynamite was a streaming monster, it broke the youtube record of the most viewed music video of all time with 101M views within 24 hours. it became the fastest song in history to reach #1 in 100 countries’ itunes. making bts the only act in history to have 6 songs with 100 #1

during the day, HDD had announced that dynamite was on track to break the all-time single day record on Spotify’s history. which became true. dynamite debuted with 12.638.540 streams, THEE biggest debut in spotify’s history.

the song debuted at #1 on global spotify with 7.77M streams, the biggest debut of the year. the song debuted in the top 10 of global apple music and peaked at #2 on global apple music, becoming the highest track by a korean act to do so.

dynamite spent +60 days at #1 on spotify India with the biggest debut for a song with 549,901 streams (record broken by BTS’ life goes on), +40 days on spotify philippines and +20 days on spotify japan. It debuted at #1 in 15 countries, song by an Asian act with the most #1

dynamite was a massive success in japan : it debuted at #7 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 with no physical copies and only 3 days of tracking, BTS’ 15th top 10 in the country. and it also joined shape of you as the only songs by foreign artists to reach 100M streams.

dynamite’s became the fastest music video in history to reach 200M views and 15M likes (4 days). It is the fastest music video by a group to hit 300, 400, 500, 600M views on Youtube andthe first MV by a group and the fastest one in history to surpass 21M likes on youtube.

it’s also reached 100m streams on spotify in 15 days, fastest song to do so this year (tied with dakiti by bad bunny) and also became one of the fastest songs this year to reach 200m streams on spotify, it has now +400M streams on spotify, reaching this milestone in 84 days.

on august 31st, dynamite went on to debut at #1 on the billboard hot 100 becoming BTS’ first ever #1 hit. It sold 444K units in its debut week, biggest debut ever by a pop song this year and 4th one overall. It has sold 265K sales, the biggest sales debut of the year.

dynamite became the first number 1 debut song by a group to spend two consecutive weeks at the top. it spent three non consecutive weeks at the top and 9 weeks in the top 10. dynamite is the longest charting song by a korean group (dynamite is still charting),+

record previously held by BTS’ mic drop which stayed for 10 weeks on the hot 100. dynamite is the best selling downloads song of the year in the USA and is the first and only song to sell over 1M downloads this year in the USA. the song is eligible for RIAA 3X platinum units.

dynamite is one of the biggest pop song of the year, it has never left the top 20 of global spotify and apple music , it’s spent 100 days in the top 10 on global spotify. it has never left global spotify and apple music since its release. The track is still charting.

dynamite was and still is a pop titan in South Korea. the song broke so many records: dynamite became the first song in history to stay at #1 for 75 days on melon, Korea’s biggest streaming platform and+

reached 1.8M ULs on genie, another korean platform, and became the idol group song with most ULs this year and remains the first song by a group on the platform to reach 50M streams. dynamite spent a record extending of 9th week at #1 on gaon digital charts.

dynamite is the fastest this year by a group to hit 400M digital points. the song received 23 music show wins and broke the record previously held by bts’ boy with luv. dynamite became the song with the most music show wins this century.

bts made history with dynamite as the first song by a korean act to be nominated at the grammys awards in the ”best pop duo/group performance” category. BTS’ 1st nomination at the grammys, with this nomination BTS is now a Grammys nominated group.

say whatever about dynamite but let’s not pretend that it’s not one of the biggest pop songs of the year and made an impact on POP CULTURE around the world.

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dynamite still in the top 10 of Apple Music months after. what does that tell you? ITS A HIT.