BTS is continuing its unique global career.
BTS is the first overseas singer to surpass 400,000 points in the first week of release on the Japan Oricon chart, 100th first place on the United States of America Billboard 'Social 50' chart set a milestone in achieving .
According to the latest chart released by Billboard on Wednesday (local time), BTS is the first place for 70 consecutive weeks on "Social 50." . The first place was held on October 29, 2016. BTS, which entered the first place, Recording the 100th first place . This record for BTS is the second highest since the chart began in December 2010, and is the first for a group.
Billboard's 'Social 50' is a way to rank the music data analysis company of United States of America, Next Big Sound, by collecting various SNS data information such as streaming, The Artist's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr's friends and followers and SNS page visitors.
BTS is the 70th straight week on this chart, 100th first place Is a figure that directly shows how much BTS is mentioned, frequently consumed and loved in former World countries. It is the part where you can check the current location of BTS, the name that is most often called and mentioned on various SNSs most closely related to the life of former World people.
The first record of BTS is also continuing in Japan. BTS' ninth single "FAKE LOVE/Airplane pt.2" on the Japan Oricon weekly single chart released on the 13th, beat Japan's prominent singers and first place on the weekly single chart. took the place. In particular, BTS became the first overseas The Artist to reach the top of the weekly single chart, surpassing 400,000 points in the first week of release on the Oricon chart.
BTS is also attracting attention because it boasts a strong popularity in Japan, which is also a flawed issue that has emerged as a Liberation Day commemorative T-shirt. Earlier, BTS was in controversy within Japan with a Liberation Day commemorative T-shirt worn by Ji Min. Some right-wing forces in Japan have been rough against the fact that the picture in the T-shirt seems to mean an atomic bomb that fell on Japan. As a result, TV Asahi 'Music Station', which was scheduled to appear in BTS, also took an incomprehensible follow-up, such as canceling BTS' appearance.
BTS explained the situation to those who were hurt by unintended situations through SNS on the 13th and those who felt uncomfortable just because BTS was related to the controversy and apologized.
Big Heat repeatedly emphasized that the controversy is not a BTS but an issue that has arisen due to the company. "Based on understanding various social and historical and cultural backgrounds, we will pay more attention to the details of the big hits and their artists, "He promised. In addition, it continued to make clear follow-up measures to directly apologize to the people involved in the atomic bomb damage and the organizations that raised the controversy.
Some have speculated that this will be a political issue and Brake will be taken into global activity of BTS. In fact, right-wing groups threatened to protest to prevent BTS concerts, but only one young man who protested BTS in front of the Tokyo Dome was one. The popularity of BTS remained unwavering: BTS opened a spectacular prelude to the Japan Dome tour on Thursday at Japan Tokyo Dome, a row of bulletproof lines that could not prevent controversy.
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