BTS‘ ‘Dynamite,’ as per a South Korean newspaper report, will be tested for space internet during South Korea’s maiden lunar excursion on May 17. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), South Korea’s first lunar orbiter, will launch on August 1, 2022, according to the article. Additionally, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a governmental research agency, will examine if a wireless internet environment can be implemented using space internet equipment it designed, with no latency in data flow between the Earth and the moon.
According to reports, the BTS song “Dynamite” will be beamed from the moon to Earth as part of South Korea’s space effort to launch a lunar orbiter via a SpaceX rocket using this experimental wireless space internet service. If this happens, BTS’ Dynamite will be the first K-pop song to be broadcast in space. In the meantime, Dynamite has gained even another achievement. The Japanese Society for Authors, Composers, and Publishers (JASRAC) announced its winners for 2022 on May 18, and ‘Dynamite’ was given the ‘Foreign Works Award’. Last year, BTS’ smash song received the highest royalty share of all international musical works in Japan.
Dynamite is a disco-pop song that debuted in August 2020 and spent 32 weeks on Billboard’s top 100 most popular songs chart. With the global hit song, BTS was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song incorporates snapping handclaps, echoing synths, and joyful horns, and was written by David Stewart and Jessica Agombar and produced by Stewart.
“Dynamite” was a commercial triumph, debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and making BTS the first all-South Korean outfit to top the Hot 100. In its first week, the song sold 265,000 downloads, making it the most successful single week since Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” (2017).