BTS’ ‘Blood Sweat & Tears’ Video Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views

BTS has added yet another hit music video into YouTube’s Billion Views club, as their 2016 clip for “Blood Sweat & Tears” has surpassed the milestone.

“Blood Sweat & Tears” is the group’s eighth music video to reach one billion views, and the list also includes “Butter,” “Dynamite,” “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey and “DNA,” among others. In the “Blood, Sweat & Tears” music video, the septet — including V, Suga, Jung Kook, Jin, RM, Jimin and J-Hope — explores a Renaissance-style art museum before delving into slick choreography. Throughout the cinematic visual, which represents purity juxtaposed with giving into temptation, the members drink elixirs, wear blindfolds, blow smoke. Jin even comes dangerously close to sharing a kiss with a white angel statue with black wings at the end of the video, before V is portrayed looking into the camera with his own angel wings ripped off.

Suga, RM and J-Hope co-wrote the sensual lyrics, which declare in the chorus, “It doesn’t matter if it hurts/ Make it tighter so I can’t escape/ Hold me tight and shake me/ So I’ll be unconscious/ Kiss me on the lip, lips/ This is a secret between the two of us/ I am addicted to the prison that is you.”  

The song, released in 2016, topped Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales chart and was featured on the group’s Wings album. The project topped the US World Albums chart and hit No. 26 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums tally.

To celebrate their newest accomplishment, watch BTS’ “Blood Sweat & Tears” music video below.