After spending a phenomenal year with megahits “Dynamite” and “Life Goes On” in 2020, BTS has been crowned Global Recording Artist of the Year by an organization representing the worldwide recording industry. The win on Wednesday (U.S. local time) marks a first for an act that performs primarily in a non-English language. BTS had ranked...Read More
Global superstar BTS has set another record, this time by claiming No. 1 on the Billboard’s Artist 100 chart for a 16th week, the most for a group act. The seven-piece act ranked No. 1, up to four notches from the previous week, on the metric that measures artists’ popularity across album and track sales,...Read More
K-pop sensation BTS took home two awards at the 18th Korean Music Awards, Sunday. The Big Hit Entertainment group clinched awards for Song of the Year and the Best Pop Song with its hit “Dynamite,” the song that made BTS the first Korean act to top the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. “We put out...Read More
A famous German radio host has made racist remarks to the Korean boy band BTS, which is controversial. Internet users from around the world urged an apology by posting on social networking services (SNS), “We oppose racism,” and “Racism cannot be an opinion.” At 9 p.m. (local time) on the 25th, German broadcaster Matthias Matuschik...Read More
Global superstar BTS has earned another “million points” song on Japan’s Oricon music chart with its upbeat pop-disco hit “Dynamite,” the band’s agency said Thursday. “Dynamite,” the all-English summer number released in August, has accumulated more than 1 million points on the Japanese music chart’s weekly single rankings, according to Big Hit Entertainment. Oricon ranks...Read More
“Map of the Soul: 7,” an album by global superstar BTS, has stayed on the Billboard main albums chart for almost one straight year this week, recording another piece of history for K-pop. According to the latest Billboard chart results updated Tuesday (U.S. time), the mega-hit album released in February 2020, came in at 108th...Read More
K-pop sensation BTS was the most tweeted about the musician in the United States last year, the band’s agency said Monday. In a recent survey by Twitter, BTS topped the list of 2020 most tweeted about musicians in the U.S., followed by Kanye West, Beyonce, and Drake, according to Big Hit Entertainment. Other South Korean...Read More
Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind global dynamite BTS, and Universal Music Group (UMG) on Thursday unveiled plans to put together a new K-pop boy band that will debut in the United States. In a pre-recorded video streamed early Thursday, the heads and executives of the two companies announced the new project, which will proceed...Read More
K-pop sensation BTS has made the list of the “10 best pop bands of all time” by the American men’s magazine Esquire. Esquire on Jan. 30 announced that BTS was one of the 10 groups to make the list alongside the Beatles and Queen. Introducing the seven-member group, the magazine said, “With a fanbase that...Read More
Superstar BTS has earned five nominations for the 2021 Korean Music Awards with its record-breaking albums and songs released last year. BTS has been named in the Musician of the Year, the Album of the Year, the Song of the Year, the Best Pop Album and the Best Pop Song categories, becoming one of the...Read More
