HYBE LABELS (formerly known as ibighit and Big Hit Labels), is a YouTube channel maintained by South Korean entertainment company HYBE Entertainment. Founded in 2005 by Bang Si-hyuk, it is best known for managing the idol group BTS (Bulletproof Boy Scouts/Bangtan Boys). They also manage TXT (Tomorrow X Together) and soloist Lee Hyun.
Filmography[]
Drama[]
- Youth (TBA) (with Chorokbaem Media)
Exhibitions[]
- "Hybe Insight" (2021) in South Korea[1]
Reality and variety[]
- I-Land (2020, Mnet) (with CJ ENM and Studio Take One)
- &Audition – The Howling (2022, Hulu Japan & HYBE Labels YouTube channel)
- R U Next? (2023, JTBC & Belift Lab)
Philanthropy[]
On February 13, 2023, HYBE donated 500 million won to help 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, by donating money through Save the Children.[2]
Trivia[]
- HYBE LABELS is the 2nd most subscribed South Korean channel, behind only BLACKPINK which was happened on May 31, 2019.
- Their video Butter holds the record for most views gained in the first 24 hours for a music video.[3]
- Their video Dynamite used to hold the record, breaking the previous record held by How You Like That by Blackpink.
- Butter is also the fastest YouTube video (or at least music video) to 100 million views and the fastest video to get 10 million likes.
- On May 20, 2021, the day Butter was released, they gained nearly 900,000 subscribers, more subscribers than any other channel did that day.
- It was about 5 times as many subscribers as PewDiePie and T-Series, the two most subscribed channels, gained that day combined.
- Around this time, they also overtook Dude Perfect as the 16th most subscribed channel.
- HYBE Labels is the only channel to have five videos in the top 30 most liked YouTube videos (Idol w/ 14 million likes, Fake Love w/ 15 million likes, DNA w/ 17 million likes, Boy With Luv w/ 20 million likes, and Dynamite w/ 23 million likes).
- BTS owns its own channel named BANGTANTV.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: May 18, 2016
- 2 million subscribers: November 10, 2016
- 3 million subscribers: February 19, 2017
- 4 million subscribers: May 31, 2017
- 5 million subscribers: August 20, 2017
- 6 million subscribers: September 20, 2017
- 7 million subscribers: November 21, 2017
- 8 million subscribers: December 26, 2017
- 9 million subscribers: February 9, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: March 17, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: April 25, 2018
- 12 million subscribers: May 19, 2018
- 13 million subscribers: June 1, 2018
- 14 million subscribers: July 4, 2018
- 15 million subscribers: August 10, 2018
- 16 million subscribers: August 24, 2018
- 17 million subscribers: September 11, 2018
- 18 million subscribers: October 22, 2018
- 19 million subscribers: December 1, 2018
- 20 million subscribers: January 10, 2019
- 21 million subscribers: February 9, 2019
- 22 million subscribers: March 16, 2019
- 23 million subscribers: April 9, 2019
- 24 million subscribers: April 13, 2019
- 25 million subscribers: April 26, 2019
- 26 million subscribers: May 23, 2019
- 27 million subscribers: June 26, 2019
- 28 million subscribers: August 3, 2019
- 29 million subscribers: September 27, 2019
- 30 million subscribers: November 3, 2019
- 31 million subscribers: January 8, 2020
- 32 million subscribers: February 2, 2020
- 33 million subscribers: February 23, 2020
- 34 million subscribers: March 10, 2020
- 35 million subscribers: April 20, 2020
- 36 million subscribers: May 22, 2020
- 37 million subscribers: June 9, 2020
- 38 million subscribers: June 27, 2020
- 39 million subscribers: July 17, 2020
- 40 million subscribers: August 16, 2020
- 41 million subscribers: August 21, 2020
- 42 million subscribers: August 22, 2020
- 43 million subscribers: August 28, 2020
- 44 million subscribers: September 15, 2020
- 45 million subscribers: October 6, 2020
- 46 million subscribers: October 27, 2020
- 47 million subscribers: November 18, 2020
- 48 million subscribers: November 21, 2020
- 49 million subscribers: December 8, 2020
- 50 million subscribers: January 9, 2021
- 51 million subscribers: February 11, 2021
- 52 million subscribers: March 15, 2021
- 53 million subscribers: April 2, 2021
- 54 million subscribers: May 2, 2021
- 55 million subscribers: May 20, 2021
- 56 million subscribers: May 22, 2021
- 57 million subscribers: June 2, 2021
- 58 million subscribers: July 2, 2021
- 59 million subscribers: July 10, 2021
- 60 million subscribers: August 1, 2021
- 61 million subscribers: September 4, 2021
- 62 million subscribers: October 14, 2021
- 63 million subscribers: December 3, 2021
- 64 million subscribers: February 5, 2022
- 65 million subscribers: April 14, 2022
- 66 million subscribers: June 8, 2022
- 67 million subscribers: June 18, 2022
- 68 million subscribers: August 22, 2022
- 69 million subscribers: November 28, 2022
- 70 million subscribers: April 3, 2023
- 71 million subscribers: June 23, 2023
- 72 million subscribers: August 1, 2023
- 73 million subscribers: October 19, 2023
- 74 million subscribers: February 24, 2024
- 75 million subscribers: June 15, 2024
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: September 20, 2017
- 2 billion views: March 19, 2018
- 3 billion views: August 6, 2018
- 4 billion views: November 21, 2018
- 5 billion views: March 29, 2019
- 6 billion views: June 3, 2019
- 7 billion views: October 4, 2019
- 8 billion views: February 5, 2020
- 9 billion views: April 30, 2020
- 10 billion views: July 4, 2020
- 11 billion views: August 25, 2020
- 12 billion views: October 13, 2020
- 13 billion views: November 22, 2020
- 14 billion views: January 12, 2021
- 15 billion views: March 15, 2021
- 16 billion views: May 3, 2021
- 17 billion views: June 5, 2021
- 18 billion views: July 12, 2021
- 19 billion views: August 30, 2021
- 20 billion views: October 30, 2021
- 21 billion views: January 12, 2022
- 22 billion views: April 1, 2022
- 23 billion views: June 10, 2022
- 24 billion views: August 8, 2022
- 25 billion views: November 1, 2022
- 26 billion views: January 23, 2023
- 27 billion views: March 31, 2023
- 28 billion views: May 30, 2023
- 29 billion views: July 26, 2023
- 30 billion views: September 25, 2023
- 31 billion views: November 12, 2023
- 32 billion views: January 23, 2024
- 33 billion views: April 4, 2024
- 34 billion views: May 30, 2024
- 35 billion views: July 25, 2024