Most watched K-pop video of 2015: BigBang's 'Bang Bang Bang'
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Boy band BigBang’s music video for “Bang Bang Bang” is the most-watched K-pop video of the year, Yonhap reported Monday, citing YouTube.
The five-member band’s video topped the list of top K-pop videos on the American video-sharing site. BigBang’s four other songs on its latest album, “MADE,” also made the list. BigBang’s music video for “Loser” was the second most-watched K-pop video of the year, while “Bae Bae” was fourth, “Let’s Not Fall in Love” sixth and “Sober” ninth.
And BigBang’s YouTube channel was tops in terms of the biggest increase in subscribers from Nov. 24, 2014, to Nov. 23 this year.
SM Entertainment’s boy band EXO’s “Call Me Baby” was the third most-watched video and its “Love Me Right” 10th. Label-mate Girls’ Generation’s “Party” was fifth. Other K-pop groups on the “top 10” list were 4minute with “Crazy” at seventh and missA with “Only You” eighth.
The channels by SM Entertainment, the “SMTOWN,” and “1theK” by the agency that was formerly LOEN Entertainment were also the fastest-growing channels after BigBang’s. JYP Entertainment’s channel ranked fifth.
Among the top 20 Korean-contents channels, those with 70 percent or more foreign subscribers tallied 16, attesting to the strength of Korean pop-content with foreign consumers.