The Life List: Blackpink, BTS, Adele, Taylor Swift and more who broke records on YouTube

(From top left, clockwise) Blackpink, Luis Fonsi, a screengrab of Taylor Swift's music video for ME! and Adele. PHOTOS: BLACKPINK/FACEBOOK, LUIS FONSI/FACEBOOK, SCREENGRAB FROM YOUTUBE
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SINGAPORE - When K-pop group Blackpink released the music video for new song How You Like That recently, it attracted an average of 998 new views per second in its first day.

The quartet set a new YouTube record of having the most number of views within 24 hours - 86.3 million.

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