BTS’s “Butter” video beat the No. 2 most-viewed upload on YouTube last week by more than 190 million plays.
Looking at the rest of the top 10 on YouTube’s weekly ranking of the music videos that were watched the most, it looks like “Butter” outperformed the entire top tier, but they missed that feat by a few million plays. Instead, the band can feel happy knowing that their treatment was viewed more than the titles that land at Nos. 2 through 9 combined.
Impressively, BTS’s “Butter” occupies two spaces inside the global top 10, as the video of their performance of the track at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards opens at No. 4 with just under 30 million views. The band claims seven spots on the 100-rung tally, as a number of their popular releases surge in popularity. “Dynamite” lifts from No. 27 to No. 15 , “Film Out” returns to the list at No. 36 , the Steve Aoki remix of “Mic Drop” vaults from No. 96 all the way to No.