On July 29 at 9:19 p.m. KST, BTS’s music video for IDOL surpassed 1.4 billion views on YouTube, which is their fifth music video to reach this after Boy With Luv, DNA, Dynamite, & MIC Drop.
BTS originally released the music video for IDOL on August 24, 2018, at 6 p.m. KST, meaning that it took the song just over seven years, 11 months, and five days to reach the milestone.