K-pop MV & Dance Digest — June 18-24, 2026

Coverage window: June 18-24, 2026. Times are shown in UTC+8; the comeback pages list the original Korea release times. YouTube counts are the video metadata captured for this issue, so treat them as an early-signal snapshot rather than a lifetime ranking.

Stray Kids released "RUN IT" on June 24 as a pre-release single for THIS & THAT, the mini album scheduled for August 7. The KPOP Official page credits Bang Chan, Changbin, HAN, and Marcus "MarcLo" Lomax on lyrics; Bang Chan, Changbin, HAN, Lomax, and VERSACHOI on composition; and VERSACHOI with Bang Chan on arrangement. 1

The early YouTube numbers explain why this is the headline scale play of the week: 9,847,889 views, 924,408 likes, and 91,313 comments on the JYP Entertainment MV at collection time. 2 The choreography read is less about a single easy challenge hook and more about impact: brass hits, marching-drum energy, and a broad anthem structure that leave space for concert-scale blocking and short-form cuts.

What is still missing: an MV director credit was not visible in the checked KPOP Official entry or the YouTube metadata. The YouTube description does confirm the official JYP Entertainment upload and 2026 JYP copyright line. 1 2

Best use of your watch time: start with the MV if you want the week's biggest fan-reaction volume; save dance replication judgment until an official practice or performance version appears.

Hearts2Hearts' second mini album Lemon Tang arrived June 22 with six tracks: "Lemon Tang," "15-LOVE," "Baby Steps," "heart emoji (♡)," "Secret Recipe," and "RUDE!" KPOP Official lists KENZIE on lyrics, KENZIE/Andrew Choi/no2zcat/JSONG/Rouno on composition, and KENZIE/no2zcat/Rouno on arrangement for the title track. 3

This is the issue's easiest recommendation for dancers. The MV had 11,900,325 views, while the official dance-practice video had 749,902 views and 75,717 likes in the captured metadata. 4 5 The practice cut matters because the formation changes are readable, the chorus gestures are compact enough to isolate, and the bright dance-pop track gives creators an obvious edit point without needing a complicated story setup.

As with Stray Kids, the MV director credit was not visible in the checked album page or YouTube metadata; the YouTube description does identify the official SMTOWN upload and SM Entertainment licensing line. 3 4

Best use of your watch time: if you only open one dance video this week, make it this practice version. It has the clearest line-of-dance view and the most immediate challenge-learning value.

Secret returned with the special mini album Secret Flavor on June 18. The release pairs the new title track "ICE CREAM" and "GET RIGHT" with 2026 versions of older Secret songs, including "Madonna," "Shy Boy," "Starlight Moonlight," "Love is MOVE," and "Yoo Hoo." KPOP Official describes "ICE CREAM" as a medium-tempo pop dance track built around string arrangements sampled from Vivaldi's Spring. 6

The data split is the story: the official 1theK MV had 47,182 views, but the Dance Society performance had 352,830 views. 7 8 That does not make the MV irrelevant; it means the choreography context is where the comeback currently reads best. For a reunion release, a clean performance frame lets viewers judge chemistry, refreshed idol-pop vocabulary, and how the new lineup sits inside a legacy catalog.

The checked sources did not surface a full MV director credit. KPOP Official lists title-track song credits for Kim Ki Beom, Kang Ji Won, and Jun Hyo Seong on lyrics, with Kang Ji Won and Kim Ki Beom on composition and Kang Ji Won on arrangement. 6

Best use of your watch time: use the MV for the comeback concept, then jump to Dance Society to see whether the reunion performance has legs beyond nostalgia.

1. Official practice videos are carrying more decision value. Hearts2Hearts is the cleanest case this week: the MV is the bigger awareness asset, but the official dance practice is the better creator tool because it exposes transitions, spacing, and repeatable chorus shapes. 4 5 Secret shows a related pattern: the Dance Society performance substantially outpaces the MV in this snapshot, suggesting that performance-first cuts can matter more than concept-first MVs for reunion releases. 7 8

2. Reverse challenges are still changing who starts the trend. allkpop's June 24 report describes "reverse challenges" as fan-made edits that pair a dance move with different audio, then get picked up by idols; it cites NCT WISH's Ryo, aespa's Karina, IVE's Rei, RIIZE's Wonbin, and Hearts2Hearts' Ian among examples, and says one Ryo reverse-challenge video passed 100 million views. 22 For this digest, the takeaway is practical: do not assume the viral move will be the officially pushed chorus point.

3. Pre-release challenge clips are becoming calendar signals. SEVENTEEN unit V8 previewed part of the audio and performance for "singasong" through an Instagram dance-challenge clip ahead of the June 29 mini-album release, according to allkpop's June 20 report. 23 Watch next week for whether the challenge arrives before, rather than after, the full title-track cycle.

If you have 10 minutes: watch Stray Kids' "RUN IT" MV for scale, Hearts2Hearts' "Lemon Tang" dance practice for learnability, and Secret's "ICE CREAM" Dance Society performance for the reunion-stage read. If you are tracking next week's challenge cycle, keep V8's "singasong" on the early-watch list because the pre-release challenge clip is already doing the calendar work before the album lands.