BTS (Hangul: 방탄소년단 RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan), also acknowledged as the Bangtan Boys, is a 7-member South Korean boy band fashioned in Seoul in 2013. The name became a backronym for Over and above the Scene in July 2017. The septet co-writes and makes significantly of their output. At first rooted in hip hop, BTS' musical design has developed to incorporate a vast assortment of genres. Their lyrics, frequently targeted on personal and social commentary, touch on the themes of psychological well being, troubles of school-age youth, decline, the journey in the direction of loving oneself, and individualism. Their function functions references to literature and psychological concepts and consists of an option universe storyline. Well-known for their dwell performances, the group have staged a number of entire world excursions. The group to begin with shaped as young adults below Big Strike Enjoyment and launched their debut single album, two Cool 4 Skool (2013). Subsequent function these kinds of as their first U.S. Billboard two hundred entries The Most Stunning Moment in Life, Element two (2015), The Most Stunning Minute in Life: Youthful Permanently (2016), and Wings (2016) aided set up BTS' popularity as a socially acutely aware team. Wings became BTS' first album to offer one particular million copies in South Korea. By 2017, BTS crossed into the international music market, top the Korean Wave into the United States and breaking many product sales documents, turning into the first Korean team to obtain a certification by the Recording Sector Association of America (RIAA) with their one "Mic Fall." The band is the very first and only Korean act as of 2019 to leading the U.S. Billboard 200 with their studio album Love Your self: Tear (2018) and have given that strike the prime of the U.S. charts with their albums Love Oneself: Solution (2018) and Map of the Soul: Persona (2019), making BTS the initial group given that The Beatles to earn three quantity one particular albums in considerably less than a calendar year. Really like Yourself: Solution also broke South Korea's Gaon Album Chart's all-time month to month document beforehand established by Really like Your self: Tear and became the initial Korean album qualified Gold in the United States.
In 2018, BTS had the next and third best-marketing albums worldwide and ended up the next ideal-selling artists globally. In 2019, Map of the Soul: Persona turned the greatest-marketing album in Korean history, and BTS became the greatest-offering artist in South Korea of all time, getting bought over fourteen million albums.The team won Best Social Artist 3 a long time in a row and Leading Duo/Group at the twenty sixth Billboard Songs Awards. Time magazine has named the band one particular of the twenty five most influential individuals on the net, featured them on their worldwide go over as "Next Technology Leaders," and named them one of Time 100's most influential people of 2019. Forbes Korea Electricity Celebrity has named BTS the most influential superstars of Korea in 2018. BTS are value far more than $four.sixty five billion to South Korea's economic climate each and every yr, attracting a single in every 13 overseas tourists that check out the place, and are cited as one of the crucial acts boosting global music product sales to $19 billion in 2018, a determine not observed given that 2006 after digital buys acquired momentum.
Subsequent their philanthropic initiatives in their Love Myself anti-violence campaign in partnership with UNICEF, BTS dealt with the United Nations 73rd General Assembly and turned the youngest at any time recipients of the Purchase of Cultural Benefit from the President of South Korea due to their contributions in spreading Korean society and language.
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