BLACKPINK’s Rosé’s APT featuring Bruno Mars becomes fastest Asian music video to hit 1.5 billion views in just 184 days

BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars are formally the unstoppable duo we no doubt wished. Their smash-hit collab APT. is mild wrecking the obtain, and the most up to the moment numbers are right here to existing it. As of April 20 at precisely 8 PM KST, the music video for APT. cruised previous 1.5 billion views on YouTube. That’s handsome — one point 5 billion. It managed to clock that jaw-dropping quantity in barely 184 days since its release on October 18, 2024, at 1 PM KST. If you happen to’re the kind who loves accurate stats, that’s six months, two days, and 7 hours. Not that we’re counting or anything.

With this, APT is formally the quickest music video by any Asian artist to ever hit 1.5 billion views on YouTube. To position it in perspective, it now stands shoulder to shoulder with J Balvin and Willy William’s Mi Gente, tying for the third-quickest climb to this loopy quantity worldwide. The handiest ones prior to them are Luis Fonsi’s Despacito (feat. Daddy Yankee) and Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You. Generally, Rosé and Bruno are out right here rewriting the YouTube file books while taking a watch flawless doing it.

The lag of APT has been wild for the explanation that starting up. Back in January, the music already hit 800 million views, making waves fancy no person’s industry, and it hasn’t slowed down for a 2nd. Folks all over the assign can’t dwell hitting replay, and honestly, same.

Now, if you’re mild sitting there questioning what on earth APT even capacity, let’s sure that up. It’s fast for “아파트” (apateu)—the Korean notice for the apartment. But right here’s the fun part: it’s also the name of a cheeky Korean ingesting sport, most frequently played with chums in, successfully, residences. BLACKPINK’s Rosé said, “APT is the name of my single that correct dropped and APT is in total a Korean ingesting sport that I deserve to play with my chums.”

FYI, after taking part within the game, BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars got right here up with the music. Rosé recalled at some point soon of an interview with Vogue, “I bear in mind heading dwelling, fully freaking out, pondering, ‘Is this ample? Writing a music about a ingesting sport? Is it too silly?”