The six minute video features RM reciting from a passage of Hermann Hesse's Demian, which was an inspiration for the album Wings concept, and does not appear on the album version of the song.
Within 24 hours of the music video's release, it reached 6.3 million views, setting a new record at the time. Also on October 13, it was reported that "Blood, Sweat & Tears" had become the fastest K-pop music video by a group to reach 10 million views.
In South Korea, the song became the group's first domestic number one hit on Gaon Digital Chart, selling 198,987 in the first week and having 3,184,355 streams.
As of December 2017, the song became the longest charting single by a boy group on a Korean chart, breaking a record that was ten years old.
The Japanese single version was released on May 10, 2017, under Universal Music Japan and Virgin Music-Def Jam Recordings.