BTS, also known as Bangtan Sonyeondan (방탄소년단) or Bangtan Boys, is the hottest name in the K-Pop industry after their recent international recognition on Billboard Music Awards as the Top Social Artist of the Year, breaking Justin Bieber's 4 years of consecutive wins. The group is also the first K-Pop group to be nominated in on Billboard Music Awards. Their nomination as the Top Social Artist boosted their popularity not only in Asia but also around the world. The group is composed of 7 handsome, talented, and passionate members, with Rap Monster as their leader. Since their debut on June 13, 2013, the group has won 47 awards with 75 nominations, making them one of the most successful boy bands in K-Pop history.
Members & Position:
- Rap Monster (real name: Kim Nam-joon, age 23) - Leader, Main Rapper
- Jin (real name: Kim Seok-jin, age 25) - Vocalist, Visual
- Suga (real name: Min Yoon-gi, age 24) - Lead Rapper
- J-hope (real name: Jung Ho-seok, age 23) - Lead Rapper, Main Dancer
- Jimin (real name: Park Ji-min, age 22) - Lead Vocalist, Main Dancer
- V (real name: Kim Taehyung, age 22) - Vocalist
- Jungkook (real name: Jeon Jung-kook, age 20) - Main Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Sub Rapper, Center/ Face of the Group, Golden Maknae
- A year after their debut, BTS received major bonsang awards for their albums Dark & Wild and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1.
- The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2 charted at #1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart and remained there for multiple weeks, making BTS the first K-pop act to achieve such record.
- The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever brought them the Album of the Year award at the 2016 Melon Music Awards, which was their first daesang since their debut.
- Pre-orders for their album 'Wings' reached over 500,000 copies within the first week.
- BTS achieved an "all-kill" on the South Korean music charts with the song, Blood, Sweat and Tears.
- Within 24 hours of "Blood Sweat & Tears" MV being posted on YouTube, it reached over 6 million views. This broke the previous record on YouTube for the highest number of views on a K-pop group music video within 24 hours.
- "Wings" managed to make it to the U.K. Official Albums Charts, making history as the first Korean act to do so.
- The same album also marked them as the first K-pop act to log three entries on the Billboard 200. A few days later, it was revealed that BTS had topped the World Albums Chart, World Digital Songs Chart and Social 50 Chart for week of October 29. They also charted on YouTube Music Global Top 100 – 17th on the video chart, 6th on the artist chart and 14th on the tracks chart.
- The song "Spring Day" achieved an all-kill on 8 of the major South Korean online music charts, having crashed the Melon digital chart upon its initial release due to traffic overload.
- When the MV of "Spring Day" was released, it reached over 9 million views within 24 hours. This made them broke their own record for the highest views of a K-Pop music video within 24 hours.
- However, the new record was broken a week later after they released the music video for "Not Today", which accumulated over 10 million views in said time span.
- In 2016, the group were met with a series of endorsements, including being selected as the face of SK Telecom, 'BBQ Chicken', and 'Smart Uniform'. That year, they topped the 'Boy Group Brand Power Ranking', published by the Korean Corporate Reputation Research.
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