ITZY Motto Music Video Holds No. 1 on YouTube Worldwide Trending

ITZY’s “Motto” music video held No. 1 on YouTube Music’s Worldwide Trending chart for three days immediately after release, putting the group’s latest comeback at the center of this week’s K-pop promotion cycle. The mini album and title track were released at 6 p.m. KST on May 18, 2026, and the group moved into a sequence of Korean music-show stages beginning May 21. ¹

The release marks ITZY’s 10th mini album, with JYP Entertainment listing “Motto” as a May 18, 2026 release and presenting the title track as built around a refreshing, trendy melody. ² The YouTube result gives the comeback a measurable global digital indicator before the first full week of broadcast promotions is complete.

ITZY Motto Tops YouTube Worldwide Trending

StarNews reported that the “Motto” music video remained at No. 1 on YouTube Music’s Worldwide Trending chart for three days after its release. ¹ Kworb’s YouTube trending data for ITZY “Motto” M/V also lists country-level trending placements, including No. 1 rankings in Australia, Russia, and Taiwan, with additional placements across Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. ³

The available YouTube statistics also show an early two-day view pattern. Kworb’s related stats page records 3,900,706 views for May 18 and 2,422,334 views for May 19. ³ Those figures cover the first two dates reflected in the available source data and support the report that the video’s launch reached beyond the domestic market.

The focus on YouTube is central to this comeback update because the platform ranking arrived alongside the formal album release and the start of scheduled television performances. Rather than serving only as a post-release promotional clip, the video has become one of the key documented measures of “Motto” in its opening week.

Album Details and Track Context

JYP Entertainment’s official discography page identifies “Motto” as a mini album with eight tracks. The listed material includes the title song, “Glitch,” “you And I,” and five member solo songs that were first shown during ITZY’s “TUNNEL VISION” world tour. ²

The album information connects the release to both studio output and live-performance material. Aju Press also reported before release that the album would include eight tracks, naming “Glitch,” “you And I,” and the member solo songs previously performed on the “TUNNEL VISION” world tour. ⁴ The repeated sourcing confirms the track structure without requiring additional interpretation about concept or commercial direction.

The official album text credits domestic and international writers and notes choreography by HAEINYSS and YURI. ² Those credits are relevant because ITZY’s comeback reporting has also emphasized performance activity, with the group entering music-show stages immediately after the digital release window.

A separate JYP Entertainment notice posted on May 18 identified an official “Motto” M/V photo update and again listed the album release timing as May 18, 2026 at 6 p.m. KST. ⁵ The notice also tied the update to the official comeback hashtags for ITZY and “Motto,” further aligning the music video rollout with the album’s release-day campaign.

Music-Show Promotions Begin After Release

ITZY’s domestic broadcast promotions for “Motto” were scheduled to begin with Mnet’s “M Countdown” on May 21, followed by KBS2’s “Music Bank” on May 22, MBC’s “Show! Music Core” on May 23, and SBS’s “Inkigayo” on May 24. ¹ Because the current date is May 21, 2026, the group’s first listed music-show appearance falls on the same date as the latest StarNews report, while the subsequent appearances remain scheduled for the following three days.

This schedule places the YouTube No. 1 result at the front of a standard comeback-week sequence: release first, music video traction next, and then televised stage promotion. The available sources do not provide broadcast performance details beyond the program names and dates, so the confirmed update is limited to the announced schedule.

Allkpop also reported that ITZY released the new album “Motto” with the title track of the same name and connected the comeback to the group’s ongoing “TUNNEL VISION” world tour, which began earlier in 2026 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul. ⁶ Aju Press described “Motto” as ITZY’s first release in about six months after “TUNNEL VISION,” citing JYP Entertainment in its pre-release report. ⁴

The confirmed picture is therefore narrow but clear: ITZY released “Motto” on May 18, the music video reached No. 1 on YouTube Music’s Worldwide Trending chart for three days after release, and the group is moving through a four-program Korean music-show promotion schedule from May 21 to May 24. With the album’s eight-track structure and early YouTube data documented by official and tracking sources, ITZY “Motto” enters its first promotion week with both broadcast activity and global video-chart momentum.

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