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BTS Break YouTube Premiere Record With Latest Video For "ON"

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The 7-piece Korean pop sensation BTS continue to shatter worldwide records, the latest with a video from their new album 'Map Of The Soul: 7'
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Feb 28, 2020 - 2:49 pm

K-pop royalty BTS continue to raise the bar this week. The group's new video for "ON" obliterated YouTube's record for most views of a video premiere, thanks to the BTS army worldwide.

The second video for the single racked up 1.54 million concurrent viewers, which YouTube announced as a record-breaking premiere. 

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The video and song represent, “a symbolic representation of ‘ON’ to highlight a different charm of the multifaceted band," according to a statement from BTS' company Big Hit Entertainment. The song arrives on the group's latest release, Map Of The Soul: 7, which is already the best-selling album of the year worldwide of any genre.

"The genre is BTS. That's the genre we want to make and the music that we want. New genre," the group's Jungkook, V and J-Hope tod the Recording Academy in a recent interview.

The song's first official music video dropped last week. Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima, a short film of sorts arrived in conjunction with the release of Map Of The Soul: 7. Which record with the band and the album break next is anybody's guess...

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Cardi B in Feb. 2020

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Poll: With Albums From Cardi B, BTS, BLACKPINK & More On The Way, What Fall Release Are You Most Looking Forward To?

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Alicia Keys, 2 Chainz, Drake, Kylie Minogue, Public Enemy, YG and others also have big albums on the way—let us know which one you are most excited about
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Sep 10, 2020 - 5:48 pm

With Labor Day here and gone, fall is almost upon us (it starts Sept. 22). While 2020 didn't quite deliver on a song of the summer—or a galivanting poolside vibe—luckily there are tons of big album releases slated for the coming autumn months. For our latest GRAMMY.com poll, we want to know which fall album you are most looking forward to.

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What Fall Album Are You Most Looking Forward To?

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The rap game is set to be big, with Atlanta heavyweight 2 Chainz set to drop So Help Me God, Bronx queen Cardi B primed to deliver a follow-up to her GRAMMY-winning major label debut Invasion Of Privacy and Toronto's finest Drake serving up Certified Lover Boy. Also, Los Angeles hard-hitter YG will release MY 4HUNNID LIFE and OG New York crew Public Enemy will drop What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?, to feature their 2020 update of classic protest track "Fight the Power."

Representing some of the biggest players in K-pop and the global pop landscape, BLACKPINK's debut studio album, titled The Album, is forthcoming this October, and BTS have revealed they have a new album on the way.

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Sure to be odes to the empty dancefloors of the world, Aussie dance-pop queen Kylie Minogue's DISCO, U.K. dance mainstays Groove Armada's EDGE OF THE HORIZON and Irish dance music legend (remember Moloko?) Róisín Murphy's Róisín Machine will keep us grooving.  

While this list of fall 2020 albums is far from exhaustive, there are two more albums we have to mention. 2020 and 2019 GRAMMYs host extraordinaire Alicia Keys will be offering up her first LP in four years sometime this fall with ALICIA, which will include "Underdog," "Show Me Love" and more glowing gems.

Finally, the expansive music of the late experimental jazz legend and Afrofuturist Sun Ra lives on with the Sun Ra Arkestra, who will be releasing their first album in 21 years, Swirling. Which one are you looking forward to the most?

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Miley Cyrus at iHeartRadio Fest 2019

Miley Cyrus at iHeartRadio Fest 2019

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iHeartRadio Fest 2020: BTS, Miley Cyrus, Usher, Migos, Coldplay & More To Play COVID-19 Adherent Concert

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The 10th anniversary event will be filmed in Los Angeles and Nashville on Sept. 18 and 19, airing live and with a highlights special on CW on Sept. 27 and 28
GRAMMYs
Jul 21, 2020 - 5:14 pm

This is the year of canceled and postponed festivals, leaving many livestreams concerts in its wake, yet iHeartRadio Festival 2020 is on, albeit without a live audience. BTS, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Khalid, Migos, Usher, Kane Brown, Keith Urban and Thomas Rhett have been tapped for the two-day, two-city fall concert hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

The 10th anniversary event will be filmed (with strict social distancing guidelines) in Los Angeles and Nashville on Sept. 18 and 19, airing live and with an edited special on the CW on Sept. 27 and 28. Since no fans can be there in person, iHeartRadio is planning several ways for them to be engage with the live show, including a Zoom audience and virtual dressing room interviews, Variety reports.

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The festival typically takes place in Las Vegas, most recently at the 18,000-seat T-Mobile Arena, but will be filmed at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, Calif. and a soundstage in Nashville. John Sykes, the president of entertainment enterprises for the media company, spoke to Variety about their plans:

"The iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles…will be completely scrubbed and cleaned with no audience. We'll put a Zoom suite of fans in there so the artists can look out and see, but they won't really be there. And we'll have a production team outside the facility remotely in a parking lot and the artists will have the venue to themselves for an entire day. They'll be able to rehearse, plug in and play live, we'll have video effects and sound."

Sykes also stressed the number of people in the theater and soundstage will be limited, with he and the rest of the crew working outside, and noted that new fan engagement ideas will be continued at future events.

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"The handful of camera people will all be tested daily and the interviews with Ryan Seacrest will be done with cameras in different rooms. There will be fans who will be connected talking one-on-one in the dressing room with artists. We could never put a regular fan in an artist dressing room, but we can do it on a video screen. We have some virtual ideas too where fans will be able to perform with one of the artists onstage," he continued.

"Many of these ideas will live on: giving fans intimate experiences and conversations with artists is something we'd never be able to do in an 18,000-seat arena. But there's nothing like live music and we're just trying to do our best to connect our fans with the music rather than giving up."

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He also hinted that an "iconic" legacy artist—Fleetwood Mac, Bon Jovi and Elton John have performed past fests—will likely be added to the lineup in the near future.

According to iHeart.com, fans will also be able to watch the event live during its taping on Sept. 18 and 19 via the CW app and CWTV.com at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST, in addition to the "festival highlights special" on the 27 and 28 from 8:00–10:00 p.m. EST/PST. The music will also be broadcast on iHeartRadio's app and of their affiliate radio stations.

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BLACKPINK at Coachella 2109

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"How You Like That:" BLACKPINK Breaks Multiple Records With Latest Music Video

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The K-pop queens' latest music video hit 86.3 million views during its YouTube debut on June 26
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jul 2, 2020 - 3:03 pm

K-pop superstars BLACKPINK have broken multiple Guinness World Records and YouTube records for their fierce new music video for "How You Like That." Their first single of 2020, the highly anticipated song and visual both dropped on June 26 following several weeks of teasers on their social channels.

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According to Guinness, the video got 86.3 million views on June 26, earning three records: most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours (i.e. any type of video), most viewed music video on YouTube in 24 hours and most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours by a K-pop group.

The previous recordholder of these three categories was BTS and Halsey, for their April 2019 collab "Boy With Luv," which earned 74.6 million views in the first 24 hours. Prior to the K-pop boy band earning the top spot, BLACKPINK briefly held the record, for just about one week, with their April 2019 video, "Kill This Love," which hit 56.7 million views in 24 hours.

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The YouTube premiere of the "How You Like That" music video, which hit 1.66 million peak concurrent viewers, also earned the ladies two more Guinness/YouTube record titles: most viewers for the premiere of a video on YouTube and most viewers for the premiere of a music video on YouTube.

At the time of this writing, just six days after its release, it has 193.4 million views on YouTube.

Other current Guinness World Records held by BLACKPINK are most followed female group on Spotify and music group with the most subscribers on YouTube.

"How You Like That" is confident breakup track, backed by a buoyant trap- and EDM-influenced beat, and follows their massive collab with Lady Gaga, "Sour Candy," from Gaga's new Chromatica album. The latest track, written by Teddy and Danny Chung, is expected to be a lead single for their forthcoming debut Korean-language studio album.

Their first full-length, BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA, a compilation album of prior EPs, was released in December 2018 and included Japanese versions of some of their biggest tracks, including the infectious "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du."

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BTS Donates $1 Million To Crew Nation To Support Out Of Work Concert Crews

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The generous contribution comes from the K-pop supergroup and their management company, Big Hit Entertainment, and follows a $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter earlier this month
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jun 23, 2020 - 1:04 pm

BTS and their management company, Big Hit Entertainment, have donated $1 million to Crew Nation, Live Nation's COVID-19 relief fund for out of work live entertainment staff. The K-pop superstars would've been on tour for the majority of the year, before coronavirus turned live music and the rest of the world upside down earlier this year.

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"This is one of the largest artist donations that has been raised for the Crew Nation fund since its conception," a statement, shared by Variety on June 22, noted.

The event behemoth launched the fund in March with an initial $5 million, pledging to match another $5 million of donations from employees, artists and fans, according to Variety. Event crew personnel who typically make at least half of their income from live events can apply for one-time grants of $1000 via Crew Nation. Individuals living and working in any city/country can apply.

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Over 70 live concert crew members who were originally scheduled to work at BTS’ concerts before the postponement (or cancellation) due to COVID-19 have received funding so far, 20% of whom are veteran crews who have worked in live performance industry for over 16 years. This contribution will help aid 1,000 live concert crews to receive relief, according to the announcement.

"It is very unfortunate that the music industry has to go through such difficult time at the moment," Big Hit's Global CEO Lenzo Yoon wrote in the statement. "We hope our contribution to Crew Nation could help support many live concert crews around the world."

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"If it weren't for COVID-19, we would have been happily touring across the world with many of our live concert crews by now," BTS added. "We are aware that a lot of communities need help due to COVID-19, and we wanted to support the music industry crews by making a donation. We hope to meet again on stage very soon."

The generous contribution comes just several weeks after BTS and Big Hit donated $1 million to the Black Lives Matter Foundation, as well as publicly announcing their allyship with the Black community.  

Earlier this month, on June 14, the talented septet shared a live pay-to-watch virtual concert, BANG BANG CON, with their massive BTS ARMY. They also recently released a new single, "Stay Gold," on June 19.

The MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund is also supporting out-of-work crew and all other music industry folks who have been financially affected by the coronavirus crisis.

Learn more about how you can donate to or apply for assistance via the Recording Academy's and MusiCares' COVID-19 Relief Fund.

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