Group BTS (RM, Suga, Jean, Jay-Hop, Jimin, V, Jungkook) is writing down unprecedented records in K-pop history. BTS, which has been popular in the World, including the United States of America and Europe, is also raising the status of k pop in the global Music market.
BTS, which hit its sixth year this year in 2013 with a deV. Based on their solid Music, they have built up a fandom at home and abroad, and have become a global superstar who is attracting World attention.
The performance of BTS is sexually confirmable; this year BTS released two albums. (excluding Japan album) "Love Yourself Former - Tear" released in May, recorded 1.82 million copies in Korea and "Love Yourself Resolution - Answer" released in August, with a cumulative sales of 2.03 million copies in Korea. It is only 18 years since the third album 'Asina' in 2000 that it exceeded 2 million copies with a single album. These figures have a great significance in the era when Music consumption has changed from soundtrack to soundtrack.
His grades abroad are unique. BTS engulfed all World major charts for the third consecutive month, including the Billboards main album chart Billboards200 entry, the top 100 eighth on the UK Official Albums chart, and the top single on the Japan Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, the top singer overseas.
The solid fandom proved to be the album purchasing power has become a strong backdrop for BTS. BTS was the first Korean group to win the "Favorite Social Artist" award at the 2018 American Music Awards, which is considered the United States of America's top three Musical awards ceremony on October 9. It was the first Korean singer to win the Top Social Artist category for the second consecutive year at the United States of America 'Billboards Music Awards' in May.
The influence of BTS has been noted throughout the country. They were invited by the United Nations in September to attend the event of the Roger Moore (UNICEF) youth agenda "Generation Unlimited" held at the United States of America New York City UN Headquarters Trust Board meeting. RM, who was on stage as a representative of the group at the time, was impressed by the message of experience as a normal young man of Korea and leader of BTS.
In October, United States of America's leading media Time (TIME) selected BTS as its cover model. Time describes BTS as the 'next generation leader' and published an article titled 'How BTS conquers World'.
The tour scale was also different. BTS has performed 15 times in United States of America and seven Canadian cities for about a month, starting with Los Angeles on September 5, and mobilized a total of 220,000 viewers. Especially on October 6th, New York City City Field decorated the finale of the tour. Cityfield is home to the United States of America Major League New York City Mets, where large singers such as Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga and Beyonce perform; it is the first time BTS has been touring here as a Korean singer.
At the time, leading foreign media focused on BTS performances, among which the BBC described them as "21st Century Beatles". Just as the Beatles' advance into the United States of America in the past was successful enough to be called the British Invasion, BTS can be seen as an evaluation that North America and Europe are making good progress in the main stream.
It is noteworthy that there seems to be a place where they will fly more in the phenomenal record of BTS, which left the footprint of 'first' and 'best' every moment. The new history of K-pop that they will write in the future is expected more.