BTS

BTS (Hangul: 방탄소년단; Hanja: Bangtan Sonyeondan) or Bangtan Boys, is a male vocal group from South Korea. This group consists of seven members, including RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jin, V, Jungkook, and Jimin which is managed by Big Hit Music. The name later became an acronym to Beyond the Scene in July 2017. On June 12, 2013, they performed the song "No More Dream" from their original album "2 Cool 4 Skool" which supported their debut on June 13, 2013. They won the New Artist award. of the Year for the song "No More Dream", including at the Melon Music Awards and the 2013 Golden Disc Awards and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards. They attracted more attention with the albums Dark & ​​Wild (2014), The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2 ( 2015) and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever (2016), with the last two albums entering the US Billboard 200. The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever won the Album of the Year award at the 2016 Melon Music Awards.

Their second full-length album, Wings (2016), peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200, making it the highest-charting album ever to a K-pop album. In South Korea, Wings became the best-selling album in the history of the Gaon Album Chart at that time. The album sold over 1.5 million copies, making it BTS's "first million-selling album", and they won Artist of the Year at the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards. Their next release, Love Yourself: Her (2017), debuted on number #7 on the Billboard 200, the highest ranking by an Asian artist in history. The group also debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time with the song of the same name as the album "DNA", which peaked at #85 and peaked at #67. Another song from the album, "Mic Drop", was remixed by Steve Aoki with a feature with Desiigner and peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs were certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, the first time by a Korean group and the second Korean artist. overall after Psy. The album sold over 1.2 million copies on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart in its first month, earning the highest monthly album sales in the chart's history and the highest on any Korean album chart in 16 years, the second of G.o.d's album Chapter 4 in 2001. BTS won the Mnet Asian Music Award as Artist of the Year for the second year in a row in 2017. Their third full-length album, Love Yourself: Tear (2018), debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200, making them the only award-winning K-Pop artist so far. The song of the same name as the album, "Fake Love", became their third song to be certified gold. Love Yourself: Answer, the new version of the album, also debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200. The new version of the album sold 1.9 million copies on the Gaon Album Chart in August 2018, breaking album sales records on this album chart once again. On November 9, 2018 "Love Yourself: Answer" became the first Korean album to be certified Gold (500,000+ units), and BTS became the first Korean group to be certified Platinum (1,000,000+ units) with the single "Mic Drop" in the United States. They have sold over ten million albums in Korea, with five million sold in 2018 alone.

Known for their huge following on social media, BTS was listed by Forbes as the artist with the most tweets back on Twitter in March 2016. In May, Twitter launched its first K-pop emoji, featuring BTS. In October, Billboard placed BTS at #1 on the Social 50 chart, making them the first Korean group to top this list. Also in 2016 they were in YouTube's Music Global Top 100: 17th in position for video, 6th in artist and 14th in song position. In May 2017, they won the Top Social Artist award at the Billboard Music Awards, becoming the first Korean group to win the BBMAs.

In June 2017, Time magazine ranked them as one of the 25 most influential people on the internet. On November 20, 2017, Guinness World Records revealed that BTS earned a record in their 2018 edition for "having the most Twitter engagements in the world as a music group". In December of that year, it was revealed they were the most tweeted celebrities of 2017, being "the most liked or tweeted of more than half a billion (502 million)" worldwide. In 2018, BTS was at number one on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list, which ranks the most powerful and influential celebrities in South Korea, and also became the youngest artist to be awarded the Order of Cultural Merit from the South Korean government. In September 2018, BTS gave a speech at the United Nations as UNICEF ambassadors.