South Korean boy band, BTS (short for Bangtan Sonyeondan) is the newest online sensation and people are loving their music.
BTS earns first No. 1 album on Billboard 200 chart with ‘Love Yourself: Tear’ https://t.co/zNug6vsUH0 pic.twitter.com/agGbqKABYy
— billboard (@billboard) May 27, 2018
The band consists of seven members, and is already a hit worldwide. Known for their meticulously choreographed dance style and boyish good looks, the group is one of their country’s best selling musical exports. They have developed a fiercely devoted fan base, who call themselves the ARMY.
BTS formed in 2013 and have won over global audiences with their blend of pop, R’n’B and hip hop. The band is made up of members Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook. They have released albums in Korean and Japanese languages and have as many as 10 million followers on social media.
It is part of a global phenomenon of “Hallyu”, or Korean Wave, which has promoted the country’s culture in the past eight years. The South Korean government has also emphasised promoting K-pop around the world in its cultural policies.
The BTS new album, Love Yourself: Tear, topped the Billboard 200 music charts on Sunday, which are based sales, downloads and streams of albums.
It had been released earlier in May. It’s first single, Fake Love, premiered at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Sung in Korean, the album is “the first primarily foreign-language No. 1 album in over 12 years,” according to Billboard.
Known for their large social media presence, BTS were listed by Forbes as the most retweeted artist on Twitter in March 2016.
In October 2016, Billboard placed BTS as number one on their Social 50 chart. The first Korean group to top the chart. To date, they have spent 75 weeks as number one on the Social 50 chart. That same year, they also charted on YouTube’s Music Global Top 100: 17th on the video chart, 6th on the artist chart and 14th on the tracks chart. In May 2017, they won the Top Social Artist Award at the Billboard Music Awards. Becoming the first Korean group to win a BBMA. In June 2017, Time magazine named the band one of the 25 most influential people on the internet.
Crush Alert: BTS guys have their eyes on a few pretty ladies in Hollywood. During a recent interview the social media superstars expressed their love for Amanda Seyfried, Scarlett Johansson, Rachel McAdams and Blake Lively. As for who their favorite artists are, Chris Brown, Drake and Eminem are just a few of the musicians they think highly of.
On November 20, 2017 Guinness World Records revealed that BTS had earned a spot in their 2018 edition for “having the world’s most Twitter engagements for a music group”. That December, BTS was revealed to be the most tweeted about band in 2017, being “liked or retweeted over half a billion times (502 million)” worldwide, more than U.S. President Donald Trump and Justin Bieber combined.
Their upcoming world tour will take them to the US and Canada before moving on to the UK, Netherlands, Germany and France.
All 14 North America dates are already sold out, including the opening of four consecutive concerts in the 21,000 capacity Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The devoted BTS ARMY have been celebrating their album success on social media.
The almost fanatic loyalty is evident on Twitter.
They’re not superman, batman, spiderman, iron man, or catman but they are our men. The seven men who saved millions of hearts, lives and souls. The greatest men who can never be compared to any other superheroes.#BTSourANPANMAN @BTS_twt
— eℓℓesy光⸗ (@KOOKIEHOLY) May 28, 2018
Our boys @BTS_twt knows!!! Oh wow congrats!! How exciting they must feel! Not only is it the foreign album chart topper in Billboard 200 since 2006 of Il Divo, it is the FIRST No. 1 album for the K-pop genre!! Proud tears!
축하해 탄이들!!! #TearBB200No1 #BTSBB200No1
— 눈부신 꾸기
(@glitter_jk) May 27, 2018
The fact that BTS came from a small company, started as a nugu group, being told by almost everyone that they’ll not achieve this and that but look at them now breaking records here and there, making history in every corner of this world. IM A PROUD MOMMA #LYTear1onBB200 @BTS_twt
— elle ㅡ giveaway
(@taehyungharder) May 28, 2018
They inspire us so much.. They are the living example that hard work is the only way to achieve our dreams.. I’ve learned so many things from them
#BTSNo1onBB200
— Moon Bhattacharjee (@thisisMoon98) May 28, 2018
BTS: we want a daesang
ARMY: doneBTS: BB 100
ARMY: doneBTS: winning BBMAs
ARMY: doneBTS: tripple crown
ARMY: doneBTS: BB HOT100 top 50
ARMY: doneBTS: performing at BBMAs
ARMY: doneBTS: BTS HOT 200 #1
ARMY: doneBTS: GRAMMYS
ARMY: OKAY WE’RE ON IT@BTS_twt
— 방탄소년단 | Jimin
(@BTStwt__saii) May 28, 2018
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