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"Ko Ko Bop" is a song by South Korean–Chinese boy band Exo, released on July 18, 2017, as the lead single of their fourth studio album The War. It was released in Korean and Chinese versions by their label SM Entertainment. It was the first Exo single not to feature member Lay due to his extended hiatus.
Produced by Styalz Fuego, "Ko Ko Bop" is described as an energetic reggae song with rhythmical reggae and bass guitar sounds. "Ko Ko Bop" was co-written by Exo members Chen, Chanyeol and Baekhyun. It was released digitally on July 18, 2017 and physically on July 19 along with the album. According to Chanyeol, the term "Ko Ko Bop" means "Fun Dancing".
Talking to Billboard about producing the song, Styalz Fuego stated that while writing the song the other composers were going with a reggae type of song, but after adding the drop after the chorus the song took a different distraction, and they settled for a reggae-pop song afterwards. The composers stated that they thought the song would be for a girl group because Shaylen Carroll, one of the composers, a female, did the demo, but eventually it went to Exo. Fuego stated "The song was actually in a higher key – I think three semitones higher – so it was more fitted for a female group originally."
About writing the lyrics of the song, Carroll stated: "When I was recording some melody ideas I kept on singing nonsense phrases and one was 'Shimmy shimmy Ko Ko Bop', which we all thought was super quirky and catchy. So we built off that and turned it into something real". Carroll went and described the "Ko Ko Bop" as a song that is about "not worrying about things", "going with the flow" and "not worrying about the haters". Chen and Baekhyun also talked with Billboard about writing the lyrics of the song, Chen stated that the Baekhyun, Chanyeol and himself each wrote the lyrics separately and worked on putting the lyrics together for the song afterwards by selecting the lyrics that would suit the song the best. Baekhyun stated "I wanted my lyrics to have people to become more carefree, release their stress and dance away with the music."
"Ko Ko Bop" topped the Gaon Digital Chart for four non-consecutive weeks, making Exo the first artist to do so in 2017.[citation needed] Exo also became the third idol group to chart at number one for four weeks, as well as the first male idol group to do so.[citation needed] The song also stayed at number two on Billboard's US World Digital Songs and China V Chart. For the month of August, "Ko Ko Bop" topped the Gaon Monthly Digital Chart. Upon the song's release, it was reported that Melon's servers crashed, due to the number of fans streaming at the same time.
Exo's fans began a viral Internet video trend called Ko Ko Bop Challenge where people dance the quick hip thrust succession choreography of the song to the lyrics "Down down baby". The hashtag #KoKoBopChallenge was used for popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Weibo.
A teaser of "Ko Ko Bop" music video was released on July 17, 2017 by SM Entertainment. The Korean and Chinese music videos of "Ko Ko Bop" were released on July 18. The music video was filmed in Seoul, South Korea.The music video shows the boys spending a day having fun as the name of the suggests "Ko Ko Bop" meaning fun dancing.
The Korean music video hit one million views in its first hour of release and 8,833,869 in 24 hours.[unreliable source?] Three days after its release, the music video hit one million likes; in August 2020, it reached four million likes.[citation needed] On December 12, 2017, the music video surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, reaching 200 million views on January 25, 2019, and 300 million on February 28, 2021.[better source needed]
Ko Ko Bop
"Ko Ko Bop" is a song by South Korean–Chinese boy band Exo, released on July 18, 2017, as the lead single of their fourth studio album The War. It was released in Korean and Chinese versions by their label SM Entertainment. It was the first Exo single not to feature member Lay due to his extended hiatus.
Produced by Styalz Fuego, "Ko Ko Bop" is described as an energetic reggae song with rhythmical reggae and bass guitar sounds. "Ko Ko Bop" was co-written by Exo members Chen, Chanyeol and Baekhyun. It was released digitally on July 18, 2017 and physically on July 19 along with the album. According to Chanyeol, the term "Ko Ko Bop" means "Fun Dancing".
Talking to Billboard about producing the song, Styalz Fuego stated that while writing the song the other composers were going with a reggae type of song, but after adding the drop after the chorus the song took a different distraction, and they settled for a reggae-pop song afterwards. The composers stated that they thought the song would be for a girl group because Shaylen Carroll, one of the composers, a female, did the demo, but eventually it went to Exo. Fuego stated "The song was actually in a higher key – I think three semitones higher – so it was more fitted for a female group originally."
About writing the lyrics of the song, Carroll stated: "When I was recording some melody ideas I kept on singing nonsense phrases and one was 'Shimmy shimmy Ko Ko Bop', which we all thought was super quirky and catchy. So we built off that and turned it into something real". Carroll went and described the "Ko Ko Bop" as a song that is about "not worrying about things", "going with the flow" and "not worrying about the haters". Chen and Baekhyun also talked with Billboard about writing the lyrics of the song, Chen stated that the Baekhyun, Chanyeol and himself each wrote the lyrics separately and worked on putting the lyrics together for the song afterwards by selecting the lyrics that would suit the song the best. Baekhyun stated "I wanted my lyrics to have people to become more carefree, release their stress and dance away with the music."
"Ko Ko Bop" topped the Gaon Digital Chart for four non-consecutive weeks, making Exo the first artist to do so in 2017.[citation needed] Exo also became the third idol group to chart at number one for four weeks, as well as the first male idol group to do so.[citation needed] The song also stayed at number two on Billboard's US World Digital Songs and China V Chart. For the month of August, "Ko Ko Bop" topped the Gaon Monthly Digital Chart. Upon the song's release, it was reported that Melon's servers crashed, due to the number of fans streaming at the same time.
Exo's fans began a viral Internet video trend called Ko Ko Bop Challenge where people dance the quick hip thrust succession choreography of the song to the lyrics "Down down baby". The hashtag #KoKoBopChallenge was used for popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Weibo.
A teaser of "Ko Ko Bop" music video was released on July 17, 2017 by SM Entertainment. The Korean and Chinese music videos of "Ko Ko Bop" were released on July 18. The music video was filmed in Seoul, South Korea.The music video shows the boys spending a day having fun as the name of the suggests "Ko Ko Bop" meaning fun dancing.
The Korean music video hit one million views in its first hour of release and 8,833,869 in 24 hours.[unreliable source?] Three days after its release, the music video hit one million likes; in August 2020, it reached four million likes.[citation needed] On December 12, 2017, the music video surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, reaching 200 million views on January 25, 2019, and 300 million on February 28, 2021.[better source needed]