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SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- The dance challenge made with boy band BTS's song "Run BTS" is currently extremely popular on the short-form platform TikTok, as their agency BigHit Music announced on Wednesday.
"Run BTS" is a side track from BTS's anthology album "Proof," which was released in June, and it was performed for the first time at the Busan solo concert.
BTS started the dance challenge when they released their choreography video on November 13.
The number of contents created using "Run BTS" on TikTok has increased by about 200,000 videos in ten days since November 13, surpassing 650,000 contents. The number of content views using the hashtag (#) "RunBTS" increased by 500 million over the same period, exceeding 3.9 billion.
Different artists, such as Yeonjun from TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Hoshi from SEVENTEEN, Lee Seo-yeon, LE SSERAFIM, Jungwon and Ni-ki from ENHYPEN, and Min-ji and Hye-rin from NewJeans, have participated in this dance challenge.
Additionally, dancer Aiki and Japanese actor Koki Yamashita have participated in the challenge.
With the support of this dance challenge, "Run BTS" was able to gain more popularity and re-enter several U.S. Billboard charts.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
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