Published : Dec. 16, 2021 - 18:19
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Seventeen continues to reign at the top of Japanese charts with its special single “Ainochikara.”
The single topped Billboard Japan’s weekly single sales chart, logging close to 247,000 copies in sales. It also was No. 2 on Billboard Japan’s Hot 100, according to the publication’s latest announcement on Wednesday.
It was released on Dec. 8 and landed atop Oricon’s daily single ranking and maintained the spot for six days before hitting its weekly single ranking at No. 1. The same-titled main track was No. 1 on a string of major music charts in Japan and on AWA, one of those charts, hogged the top three along with other tracks -- Japanese version of “Home” and “Snap Shoot.”
Separately, the band was chosen as the artist of the month by MTV Push as “first-ever K-pop group to land an MTV Push feature.”
Twice’s “Alcohol-Free” music video tops 200m views (Credit: JYP Entertainment)
The music video of Twice’s “Alcohol-Free” surpassed 200 million views on YouTube as of Thursday, according to label JYP Entertainment.
All music videos for 15 consecutive songs the group promoted so far have reached the milestone.
The song is the lead track from its 10th EP “Taste of Love” that came out in June and written by head producer Park Jinyoung. The EP ranked No. 6 on Billboard 200 at the time, the best record for an EP released by a K-pop female band.
Twice is staying on Billboard 200 for four weeks in a row with its third studio album “Formula of Love: O+T=