On Wednesday, Dec. 9, Billboard dropped their "The 25 Best Music Videos of 2020" list. K-pop fans were happy to see BLACKPINK on it. Keep on reading to learn more.
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Annually, Billboards drops their "The 25 Best Music Videos" list. This year was a little different, as music videos became a highlight of 2020 since people were forced to stay at home due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Some music videos this year could take us to a different place, time, and atmosphere. Other music videos acted as a distraction to the chaos happening in the real world. Billboard selected the music videos that made this year more bearable.
BLACKPINK ranked at number 20 for "How You Like That." Surprisingly, Billboard did not choose the official music video for the song. Instead, they chose the dance performance video!
Billboard commented that most K-pop music labels are extremely high-budget, or in Billboard's words, "akin to a small nation's GDP". BLACKPINK is mostly known for their eye-catching visuals, props, and settings. Their dance performance videos, however, are usually much more stripped-down, as it is meant to focus on the choreography.
Despite the simplicity of the dance performance video, BLACKPINK's video is still amazing, and it is still extremely watchable. Though it was released back in June, fans can keep going back to the video and not get bored. Additionally, Billboard also commented on how meme-able the video is!
Every member fights for your attention in the video, with every second showing stunning body rolls and synchronized hair flips. You'll want to watch it more than once to focus on each member!
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"How You Like That" Dance Practice Video Set New Record In Whole K-pop Industry
The achievement of BLACKPINK's "How You Like That" dance performance video has made makes a series of official music videos of other groups are jealous of!
On the 3rd of November, BLACKPINK has reached 2 historical milestones in terms of Youtube views. Just in the morning, As If It's Your Last reached 900 million views, then at night, How You Like That dance performance version also quickly reached 400 million views.
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Released on July 6, 2020, the dance demonstration video How You Like That took only 120 days to reach 400 million views on YouTube. Thereby, How You Like That became the first and only dance performance video to reach the milestone of 400 million, and also the dance video with the greatest views in history so far. BLACKPINK also owns 4/5 of the most viewed choreography videos in Kpop.
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5 most-viewed dance videos of K-pop
- 1. How You Like That - BLACKPINK: 400 million
- 2. DDU-DU DDU-DU - BLACKPINK: 343 million
- 3. Kill This Love - BLACKPINK: 307 million
- 4. Boombayah - BLACKPINK: 202,1 million
- 5. BAAM - MOMOLAND: 202 million
Looking at the view growth rate of this video, surely many other artists have to wish their MV can achieve such achievements. The dance performance video "How You Like That" took only 16 days to reach 100 million views, 45 days for the 200 million views milestone, 77 days to reach 300 million views and 120 days to reach the record milestone of 400 million views. This view growth is not inferior to an official MV, which makes everyone feel shocked because of the overwhelming power of BLACKPINK fans - Blinks from all over the world.
Even the daily views of the dance performance video "How You Like That" are sometimes higher than the MV Ice Cream - a combination of the YG girl group and Selena Gomez released in August. And do not mention "Stay" - this "senior" has been released for 4 years already but is still playing at the 200 million mark!
