Breaking the record is overwhelming, and I’m happy to keep others to do the same.” And YouTube has a big responsibility, and I recognise it. I recognise the influence that the platform has. Yankee says: “Thank you YouTube for Despacito’s success. Daddy Yankee has since made an Instagram video sharing his gratitude for being part of what is now the biggest video on the web. The song, coming from Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee has been a viral hit shooting up in views since it was released at the start of this year. It was the first Spanish-language song to make it the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in over 20 years since Macarena in 1996. Yeah, that Spanish pop song that everyone is listening to at the moment because, well I don’t know.ĭespacito has been the song of the summer this year topping charts around the world. The new video that has taken the spot as the most viewed video ever, on the biggest video hosting platform in the world is… Despacito. Their own streak wasn’t quite as lengthy though, as there’s already a new video at the top of the video just 1 month later. The BTS member and Park Seo Joon’s friendship first began when the two worked together in the 2016 KBS2 drama ‘Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth’.Just a month after Gangnam Style lost its long running spot at number 1 on YouTube, another video has taken first place.Ĭharlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa knocked Psy’s Gangnam Style off the top spot as most viewed video ever on YouTube after years of the South Korean’s domination. V had worked on ‘Sweet Night’ for his close friend Park Seo Joon, who starred in ‘Itaewon Class’ opposite Kim Da Mi. Written and composed by BTS’ V, ‘Sweet Night’ became the fastest Korean OST to reach 100 million streams on Spotify in January 2021, and became the highest streamed OST on the global music streaming platform in February 2022, by recording over 200 million streams. Upon the release of ‘Sweet Night’, V became the second Korean artist to top the iTunes Top Songs chart in the UK (following PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’), and the track was also the first OST from a Korean drama to top the chart in the US and the UK. Not only this iTunes record, but ‘Sweet Night’ also achieved multiple other milestones. About a year later, the song has broken its own record. Nearly a year after the song’s release, BTS' V's ‘Sweet Night’ first set a new record by becoming the first and only song to top the worldwide iTunes chart in 118 countries.
BTS’ V’s original soundtrack ‘Sweet Night’ has extended its own record! Originally released on March 13, 2020, as an OST for the popular K-drama ‘Itaewon Class’, ‘Sweet Night’ has now extended its record as the song reaching #1 in the most countries in history on the iTunes Top Songs chart, achieving this position in a whopping total of 119 countries, the latest country added to the list being Venezuela.
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