Surprising few, Big Bang had the most watched K-pop music video in 2015.
On Monday, The Korea Times compiled a list of the most-viewed K-pop music videos of the year up until November. Big Bang took the top two spots, while EXO and Girls' Generation followed closely afterwards.
The most-viewed K-Pop music video of 2015 is Big Bang's "Bang Bang Bang," with racking up 73.8 million views on YouTube.
Big Bang's "Loser" came in second, while EXO's "Call Me Baby" followed in third place. Big Bang's "Bae Bae" took fourth, and Girls' Generation's "Party" rounded out the top five.
The top ten songs included additional Big Bang music videos, as well as songs by 4Minute, Miss A, and Girls' Generation.
The complete 25-song list included EXID, Got7, Red Velvet, BTS, Park Jinyoung, Girls' Generation's Taeyeon, Sistar, AOA, SHINee.
4Minute member HyunA's solo track "Roll Deep" came in the 25th place on the list.
No rookie group from 2015 made it to the list; Red Velvet is the newest K-pop group to make the list, with their song "Ice Cream Cake" being viewed over 27.2 million times on YouTube.
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Tamar Herman is a multi-media journalist and the co-founder of KultScene. She is a freelance writer and copy editor, and has written for MTV Iggy, Noisey, and Paste Magazine.
