{"id":162573,"date":"2026-03-25T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162573"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:41:28","slug":"bts-netflix-comeback-racks-up-18-4-million-viewers-in-its-first-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-netflix-comeback-racks-up-18-4-million-viewers-in-its-first-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; Netflix comeback racks up 18.4 million viewers in its first 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> has done it again; the idols have been the talk of the town for days since the release of their album, <em>\u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em> on March 20. Since then, BTS embarked on a journey of amazing promotions, including a performance broadcast by Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24 KST, Netflix announced that it will live concert special <em>\u201cBTS THE COMEBACK LIVE: ARIRANG\u201d<\/em> has not only been #1 in different regions but<strong> racked up a total of 18.4 million viewers within its first day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/2036489533341179912\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">18.4 million global viewers (Live+1) showed up for their BANGTAN when BTS reunited LIVE onstage for the first time in almost four years in BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG!  <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook on their iconic performance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CjAkPCJYeK\">pic.twitter.com\/CjAkPCJYeK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; netflix\u2077 (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/2036489533341179912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The number of viewers<strong> includes both viewers<\/strong> who tuned in during the initial livestream and those who watched it during the 24 hours immediately following the end of the livestream.<\/p>\n<p>BTS proves once again that they are ruling the music industry with their comeback, as the special performance debuted as the most-watched non-English-language TV title on the global Netflix Top 10 for the week of March 16 to 22. In addition, Netflix also revealed that<em> \u201cBTS THE COMEBACK LIVE: ARIRANG\u201d<\/em> garnered<strong> 2.6 billion impressions<\/strong> across its social media channels, proving the strong presence of the idols in the scene! Congratulations to BTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS has done it again; the idols have been the talk of the town for days since the release of their album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d on March 20. Since then, BTS embarked on a journey of amazing promotions, including a performance broadcast by Netflix. On March 24 KST, Netflix announced that it will live concert special \u201cBTS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,16,7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-162573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-concert","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162577,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162573\/revisions\/162577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}