BTS's new song "SWIM" teaser will be released. 1 million views in 22 minutes. [K-EYES]

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1.2 million posts and 3.4 million views on YouTube for 13 hours

As soon as the music video teaser for BTS's comeback title song "SWIM" is released, fans from all over the world are exploding.

Big Hit Music released a teaser for the music video for "SWIM," the title track of its fifth full-length album "ARIRANG," on its official SNS and YouTube channel on March 17. The video surpassed 1 million views on YouTube within 22 minutes of its release, marking the shortest record among music video teasers in 2026. Since then, it has exceeded 3 million views in 9 hours, 3.4 million views and 800,000 likes in 13 hours. In X(X), more than 1.2 million related posts were poured out, realizing the enthusiasm of the global fandom.

The teaser video begins with a woman rushing into an empty museum and stopping in front of a huge model of a ship while looking around the exhibition space. Soon, while the surrounding lights are turned off one by one and only the model of the ship is in the spotlight, the screen switches to a sparkling sea and ends with the word "SWIM" rising over the calm waves. The museum in the video has been identified as the Museum de Marinha in Lisbon, Portugal.

Director Tanu Muin ̃, who has worked with global artists such as Post Malone, Doja Cat, and Dua Lipa, as well as Jungkook's "Standing Next to You," is said to have completed a short film-like video.

The response from overseas fans is hot. One fan said, "They listened to BTS, studied BTS, and came back to BTS. It received 410,000 likes by posting, "BTS in both inspiration and standards." Another fan drew attention with 310,000 likes for her original interpretation of the female character in the teaser, saying, "Wouldn't she be a journalist or researcher studying seven Korean boys in 1896?" A fan who visited Korea to watch the BTS performance said, "I experienced the world's longest immigration line at Incheon International Airport," and a domestic fan who shared it wrote, "No matter how much BTS is undermined online, in reality, the longest line of entry for foreigners is created due to the BTS concert, and taxi drivers are welcome back."

"SWIM" is an upbeat alternative pop song about the attitude of continuing to swim without stopping in the waves of life, and RM took over the overall lyrics and melted the thoughts and emotions of the current BTS. Chairman Bang Si-hyuk's fifth full-length album, "ARIRANG," will be released at 1 p.m. on the 20th. It is the first full album to be released after being discharged from the military after 'Proof' in 2022.

We also have a lot of promotions after our comeback. BTS Comeback Live: ARIRANG will be held at Gwanghwamun Square at 8 p.m. on the 21st, and will meet with local fans through the "Spotify X BTS: SWIMSIDE" event in New York, USA, on the 24th. Netflix will release a comeback documentary on the 27th.

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