- Blackpink breaks a
Guinness World Record,
Lil Nas X celebrates his
coming out anniversary,
and Ty Dolla Sign teams
up with Kanye West.
These are your top Billboard stories
for Wednesday, July 1st.
♪ How you like that ♪
♪ You gon like that ♪
♪ Da da da ♪
All right, first up,
Blackpink's historic
week has been rewarded
with a swag of Guinness World Records.
The K-pop girl group's music video
for their latest single
"How You Like That"
earned 86.3 million views,
setting a record for
most viewed YouTube video
in 24 hours,
most viewed music video in 24 hours,
and most viewed YouTube music video
in 24 hours by a K-pop group.
But that's not all.
The live premiere of "How You Like That"
reached 1.66 million
peak concurrent viewers
on the streaming video platform,
setting new records for most viewers
for the premiere of a video on YouTube,
and most viewers for the premiere
of a music video on YouTube.
And according to Guinness World Records,
Blackpink already holds the record
for most followed female group on Spotify
and music group with the
most subscribers on YouTube,
eclipsing One Direction.
♪ I feel it's always what you like ♪
Next up, Lil Nas X took a
walk down pride memory lane.
Here's Jordyn Rolling with that story.
- [Jordyn] Resharing his June 30th, 2019
coming out tweet that
featured an animated video
for his song "Closure You Like"
and the message,
some of y'all already know.
Some of y'all don't care.
Some of y'all not gonna with me no more.
But before this month ends,
I want y'all to listen closely to closure.
Well, this year the Old Town Roads rapper
was way more direct,
asking his five million Twitter followers,
I have officially been gay for a year,
wow, that was fun,
what should I do next?
♪ Murder my ego when you walk away ♪
and last but certainly not least,
Ty Dolla Sign just dropped
his new single Ego Death,
that not only features the
one and only Kanye West,
but also FKA Twigs and Skrillex.
♪ Wait, it-wait, it-wait,
it been bad (Bad) ♪
♪ Showin' up to the Grammy's mad (Mad) ♪
♪ Tryna win some' we already have ♪
All right, that's all for today,
but for more on these stories,
you can head to Billboard.com
and until next time for Billboard News,
I'm Chelsea Briggs.
