TXT's 'Stick With You' Sweeps Charts After 10M-View MV Milestone

The numbers are in, and they make a clear statement. TXT's "Stick With You" crossed 10 million YouTube views in less than 48 hours after its April 13 release — reaching that milestone at 6:36 p.m. KST on April 15. On the same day, the group dropped a performance film through GQ Korea's YouTube channel that showed a completely different side of the song. In the space of three days, TXT delivered two separate pieces of content that each succeeded on their own terms.

The title track is the centerpiece of 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, TXT's eighth mini album, a six-track collection that marks the group's most personal creative statement since debut. First-day sales landed at 1.35 million copies — the group's seventh consecutive million-selling release. That kind of unbroken run across an entire discography tells a story about an audience that does not need to be convinced to show up. MOA, TXT's global fandom, mobilized at scale from the very first hour of release.

Chart Sweep: From Korea to Japan

"Stick With You" entered the Melon daily chart Top 100 on both April 13 and 14. Melon's chart reflects the broadest cross-section of Korean streaming behavior, drawing on a listener base that extends well beyond dedicated fandoms — making a Top 100 entry there a more meaningful indicator than it might first appear. On Bugs Music, the group went further: two consecutive days at number one.

The international response was equally swift. On Line Music's daily song chart in Japan, "Stick With You" held the top position for two straight days, April 14 and 15. The full album hit the number one spot on Oricon's Daily Album Ranking on April 14 — the first day physical copies were available in the Japanese market. Japan has consistently been TXT's most stable international fanbase, and these numbers reflect the depth of that long-term engagement.

The group's commercial ambitions for this cycle are explicit. When asked what they want to achieve during promotions, the answer was direct: number one on the Billboard charts. For a group now on its seventh consecutive million-seller, the goal is ambitious but not arbitrary. The fanbase has the scale. The question is whether the streaming performance can sustain across the weeks following release — and so far, every indicator points in the right direction.

The Performance Film: Pure Movement

Released via GQ Korea on April 15, the performance film for "Stick With You" operates as a deliberate contrast to the music video. Where the MV is narrative-driven — built around a man's fear of losing his partner, with actress Jeon Jong-seo as the emotional center and all five members embodying different facets of a single character — the performance film strips the production down to its essentials. No set dressing, no storyline. Five members, black outfits, and a camera that stays close to the movement.

The choreography's most talked-about element is a tutting sequence: precise isolation movements concentrated in the joints of the hands and arms, creating a mechanical, controlled visual texture that contrasts with the song's warmer emotional register. The technique requires the kind of control that only becomes visible when the camera is close enough, and the GQ Korea production keeps it close. Korean media described the effect as producing "a sense of pleasure" — the satisfaction of watching difficult physical skill executed with complete command.

Members' facial expressions and deliberate tempo shifts prevent the film from becoming a pure technical exercise. The emotional content of "Stick With You" — about holding on when someone is pulling away — is present throughout, carried in the way the group moves rather than through any external narrative device. The film ends on five shadows leaving a building, dissolving into the light outside. It is an unusually poetic closing for what is essentially a choreography showcase, and it works.

What the Members Said Before the Release

"We wanted to show not only joy but also anxiety and concerns honestly," Beomgyu told media ahead of the launch. The shift in tone is audible across all six tracks. Where previous TXT releases filtered personal feeling through the lens of youth-narrative concept work, 7TH YEAR removes that distance entirely. Yeonjun noted that the members took on greater creative involvement in this record than any before it, precisely because "we were telling our own stories." The result is an album that sounds like it cost something to make.

Soobin described the title track as capturing "pathetic yet familiar emotions" — the specific register of feeling something you'd rather not admit to. That combination of self-awareness and vulnerability runs through the production choices as well. The music video's commitment to psychological depth over spectacle, the performance film's focus on controlled movement over elaborate staging — both reflect a group that knows exactly what it's doing and is no longer interested in softening the edges.

The group recently renewed their contracts with HYBE, reportedly reaching that decision collectively in under an hour. In the context of an industry where contract renewals are rarely that uncomplicated, the speed says something about where TXT stands as a unit heading into their eighth year together. The album, the 10 million views, the charts — all of it lands differently when you know the five people making it chose, quickly and without apparent hesitation, to keep going.

TXT's broadcast schedule for the coming days includes M Countdown on April 16, Music Bank on April 17, Show! Music Core on April 18, and Inkigayo on April 19. The live stages will be the first opportunity for general audiences to see "Stick With You" performed outside of the controlled environment of a music video or performance film. With over a million copies sold and 10 million views already on the board, those performances arrive with significant momentum behind them. If the early numbers are any guide, they will be watched closely — and remembered. Seven years in, TXT is playing to win — and the opening numbers suggest the competition should be paying attention.