courtesy of YouTube/ibighitMusicNewsMusic / NewsBTS smashed YouTube viewing records with their new ‘Idol’ videoWith over 56 million views in 24 hoursShareLink copied ✔️August 26, 2018August 26, 2018TextThom Waite Record-breaking is pretty much par for the course for K-Pop boy band BTS. In 2017 they were the first Korean group to make it into the US Top 30 and this year they topped the Billboard 200 album charts (another first). As of this weekend, they’ve smashed YouTube viewing records, too, with the new video to their song “Idol”. The “Idol” music video – replete with slick choreography and bright, trippy visuals – passed 56 million views in its first 24 hours, making its debut the most watched of all time. BTS take the title off Taylor Swift, who’s 2017 “Look What You Made Me Do” video got a paltry 43.2 million views on its first day. The band also released a special version of the song featuring a verse from Nicki Minaj yesterday (August 25), and she accordingly gave them a shoutout in an Instagram post. Other big names to show their support include Liam Payne and Ed Sheeran, who wrote in his Instagram story that they are “about to have an incredible week”. As of writing, the video has just under 70 million views. Watch it below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREListen to our shadowy Dazed Winter 2025 playlist7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop tracks Jean Paul GaultierJean Paul Gaultier’s iconic Le Male is the gift that keeps on givingMeet The Deep, K-pop’s antihero ‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversationIs art finally getting challenging again?The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising starLella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music sceneThe rise of Sweden’s post-pop underground