Kathmandu. For the last two months, a song has been on the first position of global trending on YouTube. This song, which is going viral on all kinds of social networks, is breaking all records on YouTube.
The song that is making history like this is Rose of K-pop girl group ‘Blackpink’ and American rapper Bruno Mars’ song ‘APT’. This song, which was released on October 18, has also become the first K-pop music video to get 600 million views the fastest.
Like many countries in the world, the K-pop craze is constantly growing in Nepal. In Korean songs, there is a lot of making tiktok and dancing. In Nepal, K-drama and K-pop have started to be widely discussed among teenagers and young people. K-pop bands like BTS, Blackpink are gaining popularity.
At the same time, the song ‘APT’ is also gaining popularity in Nepal. This song is currently trending on YouTube at number 14 in Nepal. This also shows the increased attraction towards K-Pop in Nepal. Previously, BTS’s ‘Dynamite’ released in 2020 and Blackpink’s songs ‘How You Like That’ (2020) and ‘DDU-DDU DDU’ (2018) were also very popular in Nepal as well as in other countries of the world.
Now let’s talk about the popular song ‘APT’. ‘ATP’ is the romanized abbreviation of the Korean word “아파트”, which is called ‘Apateau’ in English. This is the name of a Korean drinking game that is played in Korean apartments.
To play the APT game, one person says ‘Apateau’ and then everyone puts their hands in the middle of the circle. Someone is saying a number, whose hand is down, he has to raise his hand to reach that number. Whoever puts their hand up last gets a shot.
This hit song is included in Rose’s new solo album, titled ‘Rosie’. It took just 59 days for Rose and Bruno Mars’ ‘APT’, which turned a game into a song, to reach YouTube’s global trending chart. The ‘catchy’ words and bits included in the song struck a chord with many.
The song ‘APT’ has become the fifth music video to reach the top of YouTube history, surpassing British singer Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’. Rose’s song also became the fastest K-pop song to reach 600 million views on YouTube and the first female K-pop song to reach 600 million views. Rose also became the first K-pop female solo artist to enter the top 3 on the Billboard-200 chart.
