BTS, the global idol that released its new album, is shaking World's pop music scene. BTS' new album Map of the Sol: Persona is ranked #1 on the iTunes top album chart in 86 countries around World, including United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Singapore, India, Japan and Taiwan. The album, which was released simultaneously at 6 pm on December 12, has been evaluated by various music charts around World in three hours. The title song "Poetry for Small Things" (Boy With Luv) has recorded 17 million views on YouTube in James Stewart, the shortest YouTube views ever posted by a Korean singer.
BTS's album was featured by American pop star Halsey, and appeared in music videos and collected topics before the release. Love Yourself, released in May last year, has won the top spot on the Top Album charts in 65 countries around World, including United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil. At the same time, the poetry for small things, which is a paralysis of domestic music sites, is also sweeping the top of major domestic music sites such as Melon, Mnet, Bugs and Genie. Immediately after the release of the BTS album, the server was once down due to the crowd of users in the largest music site Melon in Korea. According to Melon, Traffic has been running several times in the past 12 to 13 days, so it has not been able to access mobile for about two hours Haru. "I was preparing for Traffic growth as I am an artist who is in great attention all over World, but I did not expect it to run this far," said Melon. "In addition to the" Poetry for Small Things "topped the iTunes top song, the entire seven songs on this album were named in iTunes Top 10 in turn. Make It Light, featured by British pop star Ed Sheeran, ranked third in the top song, Home ranked fourth, Sowoo ranked fifth, Intro: Persona ranked sixth, Dionysus ranked seventh, and Jame View ranked eighth. BTS' new album also changed the record of Guinness in Korea based on album sales before its release. It remained the top seller in the Amazon CD & Vinyl category for 30 days until the 11th, the day before the release of the album. BTS' album distributor, Dreamers Company, said that the total number of reservation orders received for a month totaled 3,021,822. Before the album came out, the third album, which included Kim Gun-mo's Mismatched Meet, released in 1995, was on Guinness, Korea with 2.86 million copies.
US SNL comeback stage .. "Prove the World's Top Idol Status" Bulletproof Boys appeared on NBC comedy show Saturday Night Love Live! (SNL) on the 13th (local time) and released World's first comeback stage. Hollywood actor Emma Stone, who appeared as their pre-stage host (introducer), was surprised by the crowd's shout after introducing it as "the stage of BTS." BTS member Sugar (26) said in "Combag Special" (BTS Honey FM 06.13), which was presented through Naver Love Live!! in New York on the night of the 12th, "This album was pleasantly worked in the Love Love Live!!r." "I feel like I have a good feeling, but I think the results are good because I put down my mind." Regarding the popularity of BTS sweeping World, Ha Jae-geun, a cultural critic, said, "BTS is already World's best idol." "BTS is already World's best idol." "Black Pink has set a YouTube 100 million view record for James Stewart with Kill This Love, but the BTS has shortened the record by one day faster than this," Ha said. "The BTS has been building a solid fandom globally." The BTS has since moved from Los Angeles to Chicago, New Jersey, Brazil, Britain, France, Japan and others. It continues to tour in eight regions around World.