APT.’ of Rosé becomes fastest K-Pop solo music video to reach 300 million views

E. Kristhoff Cagape

<p>Rosé&#x27;s latest single &quot;<em>APT</em>.&quot; has reached another feat.</p><p>&quot;<em>APT</em>.&quot; has set a new record as the fastest music video by a K-pop soloist to hit 300 million views as per a report by Soompi. The video achieved the milestone in 22 days surpassing the previous record of Psy&#x27;s 2013 hit track &quot;<em>Gentleman</em>&quot; which achieved 300 million views in 25 days.</p><p>It also became the fastest music video across all genres to reach 300 million views on YouTube this year and ranking as the sixth-fastest overall in history.</p><p>&quot;<em>APT</em>.&quot; reached 300 million views on November 9.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-8" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBQFVlBKxf9/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=361&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A8%2C%22os%22%3A941295.600000143%2C%22ls%22%3A562703%2C%22le%22%3A563350.100000143%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="498" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-8" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>Released on October 18, &quot;APT&quot; is Rosé&#x27;s collaboration with Bruno Mars. On its first day of release, the song gained the biggest debut for a male-female duet on YouTube this year. It achieved more than 25 million views on YouTube on its first day on the platform.  </p><p>The record surpassed the previous record set by Taylor Swift and Post Malone&#x27;s &quot;Fortnight.&quot;</p><p>&quot;APT.&quot; is inspired by the Korean drinking game Apartment. It is pronounced as apateu or 아파트 in Korean.</p><p>In an interview with <em>Vogue</em>, Rosé shared that she got the inspiration for the song when she was playing the drinking game with her team in the recording studio.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-9" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBXtQfDKefv/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=361&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A9%2C%22os%22%3A942617.2000000477%2C%22ls%22%3A562703%2C%22le%22%3A563350.100000143%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="745" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-9" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>&quot;<em>I was like, &#x27;Is this okay that I&#x27;ve written like a song about like a drinking game? Is this too unserious?&#x27; And so I like got all of the producers and songwriters to delete the song off of their phones</em>,&quot; she said.</p><p>Upon noticing that listeners from her team became &quot;obsessed&quot; with the song, the BLACKPINK member decided to move forward with completing the track.</p><div><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2024/10/18/ros-releases-new-single-apt-in-collaboration-with-bruno-mars-1954"><strong>READ:Rosé releases new single &#x27;APT&#x27; in collaboration with Bruno Mars </strong></a></div><p>On how her collaboration with Bruno Mars materialized, Rosé recalled: &quot;<em>Last year, Bruno came to perform in Korea, in Seoul and my friends were like, &#x27;Do you wanna go watch a Bruno Mars concert?&#x27; And so ever since then I was like, &#x27;Oh my god, I love Bruno Mars, I play his songs all the time</em>.&#x27;&quot;</p><p>She went on: &quot;<em>Fast forward somebody set up a meeting with him and I. And I met him and I was like, I was fangirling so much, and he liked jumped on the song and he had all these like crazy ideas for it</em>.&quot;</p>

<p>'APT.' of Rosé and Bruno Mars became the fastest music video across all genres to reach 300 million views on YouTube this year and ranking as the sixth-fastest overall in history.</p>

'APT.' of Rosé and Bruno Mars became the fastest music video across all genres to reach 300 million views on YouTube this year and ranking as the sixth-fastest overall in history.

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‘APT.’ of Rosé becomes fastest K-Pop solo music video to reach 300 million views

‘APT.’ of Rosé becomes fastest K-Pop solo music video to reach 300 million views

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Published Nov 15, 2024 07:38 PM PHT

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Updated Nov 22, 2024 06:20 PM PHT

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