BIGBANG made a huge achievement with Still Life: Stopping Perfect All-kill, "kicking" BTS, IU on the chart

BIGBANG's comeback with the song "Still Life" is making fans burst with emotions.

At exactly 0:00 on April 5 (KST), BIGBANG finally released a comeback MV titled Still Life. This is BIGBANG's first official MV after 4 years since the song "Flower Road". Carrying on the level of kings, this comeback is expected to achieve many explosive achievements. And it was not unexpected, what Still Life brought to BIGBANG in the first 24 hours of its debut was really impressive.

Reached 16.3 million views on YouTube in 24 hours

After its release, Still Life quickly became the MV with the highest number of views in the past 24 hours on YouTube with 8.4 million. The MV also took less than 12 hours to reach the top 1 trending YouTube Music category in Vietnam. And after 24 hours, the number of views displayed on the MV recorded 16,399 million, along with 2 million likes on YouTube.

After 24 hours, the number of views of "Still Life" MV recorded 16,399 million, along with 2 million likes on YouTube.

The group also reached #1 Trending YouTube General Directory in Vietnam, USA, Japan, Korea... top trending in 63 different countries and territories.

Reaching Realtime All-kill, breaking an impressive series of digital music records

After only 13 hours of release, the song "Still Life" quickly achieved Realtime All-kill when greening the charts under iChart: MelOn, Flo, Genie, Bugs. Thus, Still Life has stopped the Perfect All-kill achievement that (G)I-DLE's song TOMBOY is holding. Even another strong opponent, Feel My Rhythm of Red Velvet, also lost the opportunity to reach the All-kill achievement. Up to now, the song is still standing well, aiming for the Perfect All-kill achievement.

Still Life song rank as of 22:30 on April 5 (KST)

Previously, the song broke the record of Dynamite (BTS), debuting at 25 MelOn 24Hits and 26 Flo. Still Life helps BTS become the idol group with the highest debut rankings on these two charts after the reshuffle.

Besides, Still Life also broke the record of highest hourly listeners of MelOn Top 100 with 146,721 hits. The song has reached 909,666 unique views on MelOn, the only number within the first 24 hours after MelOn's reshuffle, surpassing IU's strawberry moon.

Top 5 songs with the highest first 24 hours of unique listening in MelOn Top 100 since the reshuffle:

1. Still Life - BIGBANG: 909.666

2. strawberry moon - IU: 713,054

3. Counting Stars - BEO (Feat. Beenzino): 576,821

4. Winter Sleep - IU: 452,763

5. Limousine - BEO (Feat. MINO): 403,744

In addition, BIGBANG is also the fastest group to enter the MelOn 24Hits Top 10 chart (3 hours), the group with the fastest song to reach #1 on FLO since the chart was reformed. Besides, "Still Life" is also the debut song at number 1 on MelOn Daily chart, the first product in 2022 to achieve this achievement.

Still Life debuted at #1 on MelOn Daily, the first product in 2022 to achieve this feat

Invading the iTunes chart of Vietnam and the world

An achievement that proves that the VIP fandom in Vietnam is extremely good is that BIGBANG's songs spread throughout the iTunes chart. In addition to the latest song Still Life holding No. 1, from No. 2 onward, BIGBANG's old songs are densely covered in the top 100. As if it was a playlist of BIGBANG, even international fans must be in awe!

BIGBANG invades Vietnam iTunes chart

It can be said that it has been a long time since fans have seen BIGBANG return. Therefore, the image of 4 members in the "Still Life" MV immediately caused a fever on social networks. Accordingly, BIGBANG has an artistic MV with slow-paced scenes, mainly focusing on the members' acting and visuals. 13

Although the MV does not have any common scenes between the members, each individual filming set is carefully and carefully invested. Young father Taeyang is the one who opens the MV in the middle of a poetic yellow flower boat. G-Dragon was alone in the middle of the street with a colorful umbrella, TOP got lost in a place covered with white snow, and Daesung went to an old house - where 4 chairs were waiting for him.

The person behind the artistic scenes of Still Life is director Han Samin. For fans of BIGBANG in particular and YG in general, this name is not too strange when he directed a series of hit MVs such as: Love Song, Blue, Bad Boy, Monster (BIGBANG), That XX, Crooked, Who You? (G-Dragon), 1AM, Eyes Nose Lips (Taeyang), 1,2,3!, Gotta Talk You (Seungri), Solo (Jennie), On The Ground (Rosé), Dumb Dumb, XO XO, Anymore (Somi) ).

Besides YG, Han Samin also made MVs for Dawn, SEVENTEEN, STAYC, Block B, Ly Vu Xuan, Monsta X...

Portrait of director Han

Some comments from netizens:

- Uncle Han's MV is really elaborate to every detail, every line on the wall is also good.

- YG really has a tradition of working with followers from the beginning, not changing personnel as much as other companies. Create a feeling of absolute security and trust!

- Thank you to the director for creating so many quality MVs. It makes me feel nostalgic about the past time. Huhu, so emotional!

- The MV looks familiar. It feels like the song "Blue" after a long year of comeback.

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