TWICE's music video for 'Cheer Up' crossed 600 million YouTube views at approximately 9 AM KST on June 20, 2026 — a milestone that arrives a full decade after the track's release and makes it the group's fifth music video to reach the 600 million threshold. The TWICE Cheer Up 600 million YouTube views landmark joins TT, What Is Love?, LIKEY, and FANCY as the pillars of one of the most-viewed discographies in K-pop's streaming era, and stands as a monument to a song that was already a record-setter the week it was released.
A DECADE OF 'CHEER UP': FROM CHART SWEEP TO YOUTUBE MONUMENT
Released on April 25, 2016 as the title track of TWICE's second mini album PAGE TWO, 'Cheer Up' was the song that confirmed the group's commercial dominance in their first full year of activity. The track held the top spot on the Melon chart for 13 consecutive weeks — a remarkable streak for a group with less than six months of experience — and swept Song of the Year honors at the Melon Music Awards and the Golden Disc Awards for 2016. At the time of its release, the global infrastructure for streaming K-pop was a fraction of what it would become; that a JYP Entertainment girl group would accumulate 600 million YouTube views on this particular track over the following decade would have been difficult to forecast even in the most optimistic projections.
The path from release to 600 million is a compressed history of how TWICE's international fanbase grew. The video passed 100 million views in 2017 as the group's Japan debut accelerated their regional profile, moved through 300 million during the peak of their crossover push in 2018–2019, and continued accumulating views across subsequent generations of K-pop fans discovering the catalog organically through YouTube's recommendation architecture.
TWICE'S 600M CLUB AND WHAT THE MILESTONE SIGNALS
With five videos now past 600 million, TWICE hold one of the most consistent YouTube view tallies of any K-pop act. The five videos — TT, What Is Love?, LIKEY, FANCY, and Cheer Up — span four years of the group's output and four distinctly different sonic eras. TT and LIKEY represent the hyper-pop bubblegum phase that made TWICE a phenomenon in 2016–2017; What Is Love? and FANCY mark the transition toward a more self-assured pop production style in 2018–2019; Cheer Up, as the earliest of the five chronologically, anchors the catalog at the moment of the group's first true chart dominance. That range matters: it is not the story of a single viral moment, but a sustained pattern of songs entering the cultural consciousness and remaining there.
The milestone lands during an active period for the group. The TWICE THIS IS FOR World Tour, which opened its North American leg in May 2026 and extends into a European arc through August, has positioned TWICE as one of the most active touring acts in K-pop this cycle. The 600M announcement reached fans already in concert mode — fueling social media celebrations tied to a group in the middle of a global tour rather than a legacy catalog retrospective.
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