The Buzz : Everything You Need To Know Today

Merge 104.8  |  24 August 2020

K-POP band BTS have smashed the record for the video with the most views on YouTube within 24 hours. Fans of the new single ‘Dynamite’ watched the clip over 100m times in a single day. It has beaten the previous record by more than 14.8m views.

 

Performers at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards might be pulled due to coronavirus safety concerns. A bubble has been created at a hotel in Losd Angeles for the artists and their teams, along with a bubble for production at the custom-built sound stage for the event. The 2020 VMAs is due to be held next Sunday.

 

New pictures of Colin Farrell have appeared online looking unrecognisable as Penguin in the first teaser for The Batman. With the help of some prosthetics and makeup, he has transformed into his version of Penguin, who makes three brief appearances in the two-minute-plus teaser. Production for the movie is far from being complete though, due to filming being put on hold because of the pandemic.