Red Velvet continue to be a must-watch act as the girl group earn September 2016’s top-viewed music video among K-pop artists.
The quintet’s whimsical visual for “Russian Roulette” was last month’s most-viewed K-pop video on YouTube both in America and around the world. Released on Sept. 6, the ladies had nearly all month to rack up views and currently boast more than 25 million watches. To date, Red Velvet has seen three other videos to score more than 25 million views: 2015’s “Dumb Dumb” (currently with 50 million views), 2015’s “Ice Cream Cake” (48 million), and their debut visual “Happiness” (38 million) from 2014.
The ladies end up on top of a male-heavy month that included a lot of releases from the “Big Three” Korean record record labels: SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.
Red Velvet is under SM as is boy band phenom EXO, who have the second-most viewed video worldwide with “Dancing King,” their collaboration with Korea’s famed comedian Yu Jae Seok. Though, the video doesn’t fare as well in America, ending up fourth in the ranking, perhaps due to Yu not having as big of star appeal in the U.S. Meanwhile, Girls’ Generation member Taeyeon also slips into the countdown at No. 10 on both lists with “All With You,” recorded for the soundtrack to hit Korean drama TV show Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo.
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