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LISA's SaWaDiKa sets 2026 24-hour view record

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LISA has claimed the highest first-day music-video viewing total of 2026 with SaWaDiKa, which recorded 70.8 million views in its first 24 hours.

The Thai star released the track as the lead single from her forthcoming PRESS PLAY mini-album. LISA, whose full name is Lalisa Manobal, thanked the production team and fans after the release.

Record first-day figures

The reported 70.8 million views surpassed the 33.3 million first-day views achieved this year by BTS's Swim.

SaWaDiKa is also said to be the second most-viewed solo artist music-video debut in its first 24 hours in global music history. It trails only LISA's own 2021 single LALISA, which reached 73.6 million views over the same period.

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The video reached between 30 million and 35 million views within its first 10 to 12 hours, before passing 50 million after 15 hours. That made it the fastest music video to reach 50 million views in a single day for several years, since Shakira and Bizarrap's Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 in 2023.

In an Instagram post, LISA wrote: "It has been one day since SaWaDiKa was released for people around the world to hear. From Thailand to Korea and LA, bringing this project to life required everyone's collaboration."

She added: "Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone involved. And thank you to all the Lilies for supporting and loving SaWaDiKa. I really could not have done this without you."

A Thai greeting with a stylised spelling

The title is intended to be read as sawasdee ka, the polite Thai greeting commonly used by women, rather than pronounced as English words. However, neither LISA nor her label, LLOUD, has explained the spelling SaWaDiKa or its alternating capital letters.

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Thai elements feature throughout the song and its wider project, including Bangkok scenes, Muay Thai, tuk-tuks, the baht and the phrase keng mak, meaning "very good".

EP, documentary and Las Vegas dates

PRESS PLAY is due for release on 23 October and follows LISA's February 2025 debut record, Alter Ego. Rolling Stone has reported that the six-track EP explores her Thai roots more deeply and takes a more personal approach to her solo work.

LISA promoted the release through the Hello Sawadika global campaign, including a website displaying "Hello" in 11 languages and billboards around Bangkok. Her documentary Always Lalisa premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival from 10 to 20 September.

She will then begin her first concert residency, VIVA LA LISA, at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on 13, 14, 27 and 28 November.

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6 September 2026


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Wow catchy melody. Kinda like "End of the walkway" you hear at the airport.

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Complete overproduced highly polished trash....This video is instantly forgettable..

Just now, redwood1 said:

Complete overproduced highly polished trash....This video is instantly forgettable..

And in this case, so are you.

40 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

Complete overproduced highly polished trash....This video is instantly forgettable..

Just what the public is hungry for. "Instantly forgettable" means they'll hit 'replay'

How many just saw the video to see her "outfits".

Sex sells.

I did not find the music in that music video.

I could not even get through it with the sound off.

She has a Japanese JAV star that looks like her.

I 'd rather watch her.

All power to her. Corporate or not, you don't get too where she has gotten without discipline and dedication.

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18 minutes ago, dddave said:

All power to her. Corporate or not, you don't get too where she has gotten without discipline and dedication.

The story for Lisa is that there was a spot in BlackPink for a non-Korean Asian female and 2000 girls were auditioned. And Lisa won. She obviously had the moves and the voice that the K-Pop machine was looking for.

The looks can come later.

Useless from a musical perspective. But I'd still do her.

Well done career...👍, but I don't fancy the song "SaWaDiKa". It miss what makes a song a real global hit — a sing-along hook-line or something easy to be remembered, which could be a riff; even that she repeats the same rap 3-4 times it's not something you easily rembers — but it will gain lots of streams and download, because it is Lalisa; if it was an unknown upcoming artist it would likely be of much less interest and soon forgotten.

Go into any crowded night club and see what happens with the audience, the moment the DJ plays something easy recognisable and sing-aloing, even partly covered by tech- og house-rhythms in heavy base and kick drum. It's not the rap, the majority remembers, it's the hook. A known artist with a sexy costly music-video will always gain views and streams, but it might easily be forgotten in the future.

The good old advise I learned from high level pros in music business was: When you receive a demo tape, you play 30 seconds and stop it. Walk out for a mug of coffee or a leak, and if you cannot sing something or remember a riff when you come back in the office, it's next case. I should admit, this was before the long intro's for radio hosts to make a talk over, today you will listen something like 45 seconds...😉

In Blackpink, Lisa was "The Rapper".

My late mother grew up in NY City during the big band era. I used to joke:

To my mother there are 2 kinds of music: Frank Sinatra and Not-Frank Sinatra.

So I learned early on not to question anyone's taste in music. If they like it, up 2 them.

Good luck to her but I don't really think rapping in general qualifies as music since the melody , if any , got off the bus from the get go. It should be re classified as entertainment or something. Viewed as a stand alone style of visual or aural entertainment it is better appreciated. Once you go down the road of accepting all kinds of sound as music, you have to accept that banging two dustbin lids together to a beat or evenly spaced fatulance can also be called music.

4 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Complete overproduced highly polished trash....This video is instantly forgettable..

Bet you were a bundle of fun on a Saturday night when you were a

teenager Red !

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