Group BTS (RM, Jean, Sugar, Jay-Hop, Ji Min, Vu, and Political Power) took over to the "Hot 100" chart following United States of America Billboards' "Billboards 200".
According to United States of America Billboards on May 30 (hereinafter referred to as Korea time), BTS entered the "Hot 100" with its title song "Tear" (pre-Love Yourself's "Tear") on its regular third album, "LOVE YOURSELF" released on the 18th. This is an 18-step increase from the 28th, the highest K-pop group record on the "Hot 100" chart achieved by the BTS as a remix version of "MIC Drop" released in December last year.
▲ 'Twinkle popularity' is not, the achievement achieved after steady rise
Although it has recently been attracting attention as a K-pop record that has been written on the Billboards chart, the history of BTS and Billboards is longer. The Billboards main chart consists of the so-called 'Billboards 200' and 'Hot 100', called the 'Two Mountains'. 'Billboards 200' is the main chart chart, which quantifies record sales, track sales, and streaming performance, ranking the most popular albums in the United States of America. The Billboards main music chart 'Hot 100' digitizes song sales, radio air play, and sound recording, ranking the most hotly loved sound sources in the state.
The album, which BTS first succeeded in entering the Billboards 200, was the mini album In the Mood for Love Part Two (In the Mood for Love pt.2) released in November 2015, which ranked 171st on the chart. Since then, BTS has entered the top of the chart on the 28th with Shinbo LOVE YOURSELF 'Tear' and wrote a new history of K-pop, which is the entry of 'Billboards 200' for six consecutive albums. According to Billboards, BTS has earned a total of 135,000 points in album figures compiled by the 24th, setting the second highest record of group album sales in 2018. It is only 12 years since the album, which is not English but foreign, became the top chart. Earlier in 2006, the male crossover group Il Divo became the number one player on the chart with the album "Ancora" sung in Spanish, Italian and French.
"Hot 100" debuted for the first time in more than four years. The mini-album "Wings (WINGS) Abduction: You Never Walk ALONE" title song "Spring Day" released in February last year, ranked 15th on the "Bubling Under Hot 100" chart (the chart that ranked #1 to #25 that failed to enter the Hot 100 chart) and increased the possibility of entering the "Hot 100" in September last year. OVE YOURSELF made its first entry (85th) with the title song "Her" (DNA), the highest record for the K-pop group. Since then, "DNA" has risen 18 steps in a week to 67th place. In addition, it ranked 28th in the remix version of "MIC Drop" last December, and once again renewed the K-pop group record.
The 10th place in the 'Hot 100' through Shinbo is the highest record among the entry records set by K-pop singers. PSY has been in second place for seven weeks on the chart with its global hit song 'Gangnam Style' in 2012, and ranked fifth in Gentleman' the following year, but both songs have continued to rise in the rankings since they first entered the rankings lower than 10th. The highest ranking of PSY's entry was Gentleman', which is the 12th place. In the case of BTS, it was revealed that it had high performance in song sales, streaming data, and radio play from the first week of 'FAKE LOVE' release. The song also topped Billboards' Digital Song Sales, proving that the most downloaded songs in the United States of America in the past week are songs from BTS in Korean, not English. In the streaming category, it ranked 27.4 million times, ranking seventh on the Billboards 'streaming song' chart.
▲ United States of America's leading music media and critics also report intensively
Local media also attracts attention because they are continuing to focus on BTS's record-breaking achievements. Billboards as well as BuzzFeed, PopCruch and Forbes have also reported on a series of amazing records being written by Asian singers.
In particular, Chicago-based local music review site Pitchfork rated BTS's new score of 7.1 and said, "This BTS album, which is smoothly completed with one unified theme consciousness, is a work about love and loss." K-pop has already been a genre that has been preparing for a breakthrough in the United States of America market. Now the universe seems to have finally moved for BTS, a Boy Band from Korea. "
"The music that BTS introduced has a pure artistic element even according to the latest trend. "BTS members participate in composition and production, and some of the songs are about topics such as mental health and social responsibility. For this reason, many people consider BTS songs quite personal, and the fact that the song has a personal story appeals to take it more seriously. Many Boy Band have imitated the strategy that BTS has pursued, but BTS is a model of K-pop that maximizes efficiency in many ways. "
RollingStone wrote in an article entitled "How BTS Are Breaking K-Pop's Biggest Tabbos" that "it is not common for pop stars to get tangled with politics in modern Korean society. Although some hip-hop artists, such as Epik High, have dealt with controversial topics, many idol groups follow a smooth success formula without political color. "BTS, who was the first Korean singer in 'Billboards 200', succeeded because he had a willingness to resist this. The members of the seven have spoken their thoughts after their debut, and in Korea, they have publicly talked about the taboo topic of mental health and the pressure on success. "
"BTS has proposed a refreshing change to the 'k pop machine' that some critics and music fans do not prefer," he said. "BTS donated 100 million won to the bereaved family of the Sewol ferry last year with his agency Big Hit Entertainment. After the agreement with UNICEF Korea Committee, I mentioned that the UNICEF campaign is underway for two years from November last year.
hwang hye-jin