BTS’ “ON” was released on February 21, 2020, as the second single from the band’s fourth Korean-language album Map of the Soul: 7, A version featuring Australian singer Sia was also released and features on the digital and streaming version of the album. “ON” was written by RM, August Rigo, Melanie Fontana, Michel Schulz, Suga, J-Hope, Antonina Armato, Krysta Youngs, Julia Ross and its producer Pdogg. The band performed the song at the main concourse of Grand Central Station on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on February 24, 2020.

In the United States, “On” debuted at no. four on Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest-charting song by a Korean group in the country, selling 86,000 digital downloads in its release week.

The first music video, dubbed “Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima”, was released on February 21, 2020, in conjunction with the release of the single and the album. It shows BTS, World of Dance Season 2 champions The Lab, and the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps performing the choreography near the Sepulveda Dam, adding a dance break that is now continuously used for promotion.  It is the seventh most-watched online video in the first 24 hours, and the fifth most-watched YouTube video in this period of time; it gained 46.5 million views in this time frame.

The second official music video was released on February 28, 2020 at 0:00 KST. Within minutes of its release, the video became the biggest YouTube premiere of all time with 1.54 million concurrent viewers.  The video reached 10 million views in one The music video garnered 43.8 million views on its first day hour, surpassing the record held by “Boy With Luv” as the fastest Korean video to achieve this.

In 2020  the single won at the MTV Video Music Awards “Best K-Pop,” “Best Pop” and “Best Choreography”

BTS performed the song on various stages in 2020 as they promoted their album “Map Of The Soul: 7,” if not for the global pandemic, BTS would have gone on world tours and performed several songs for their album. But they did give fans performances for the songs on the Album through the “Map Of The Soul ON:E” online concert that broke records as the biggest online event in 2020. Watch the amazing stages that BTS performed “ON” on.

The original Music Video

‘ON’ Stage 2020 MMA – BTS

[BTS – ON] Comeback Stage | M COUNTDOWN 200227

[2020 MAMA] BTS_ON

BTS – ON [Music Bank / 2020.03.06]

BTS Performs “ON” at Grand Central Terminal for The Tonight Show

 BTS ‘ON’ 인기가요 무대! / DIRECTOR’s CUT

BTS – ON [Music Bank / 2020.02.28]

ON- Map Of The Soul O:NE online concert

‘Black Swan’ + ‘ON’♪|JTBC 210110 Golden Disk Awards

BTS – ON [Music Bank / 2020.03.06]

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BTS “ON” DIRECTOR’s CUT

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[BTS – ON] KPOP TV Show | M COUNTDOWN 200305 EP.655

BTS “ON” Tokopedia


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