BTS (band)

BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys or Beyond The Scene, is a seven-

BTS
member South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment.
They debuted on June 12, 2013 with the song "No More Dream" from
their first album 2 Cool 4 Skool, for which they won several New
Artist of the Year awards, including at the 2013 Melon Music Awards
and Golden Disc Awards and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards. The band
continued to rise to widespread prominence with their subsequent
albums Dark & Wild (2014), The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part
2 (2015) and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever
(2016), with the latter two entering the U.S.Billboard 200.[3] The Most
Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever went on to win the Album of
the Year award at the 2016 Melon Music Awards.[4] BTS at Golden Disc Awards on January 14,
2017. From left to right: RM, Jimin, Jin, V,
Their second full album, Wings (2016),[5] peaked at number 26 on the
Jungkook, Suga, and J-Hope.
Billboard 200, which marked the highest chart ranking for a K-pop
album ever.[6] In their native South Korea, Wings became the best Background information
selling album in the Gaon Album Chart history at the time.[7] The Also known as Bangtan Boys Bulletproof Boy
album went on to sell more than 1.5 million copies, making it BTS' Scouts Beyond The Scene
first "million seller",[8] and the group was subsequently awarded Artist Bangtan Sonyeondan
of the Year at the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards.[9] The group's next
Origin Seoul, South Korea
release, Love Yourself: Her (2017),[10] debuted at number 7 on the
Genres K-pop hip hop pop
Billboard 200, marking the highest rank for an Asian artist in
electronica rock[1] R&B EDM
history.[11] The group also managed to debut on the Billboard Hot 100
for the first time with the album's title track, "DNA", which entered at Years active 2013present
#85 and peaked at #67.[12] The album sold over 1.2 million copies on Labels Big Hit Entertainment Pony
South Korea's Gaon Album Chart in its first month, reclaiming its title Canyon (20142017 in Japan)
as the best selling album in the chart's history and becoming the Def Jam Japan (Japan, 2017
biggest selling Korean album by month in 16 years, coming second to present)[2]
G.o.d's album in 2001.[13] BTS was awarded the Mnet Asian Music Website bts.ibighit.com
Award for Artist of the Year for the second year in a row in 2017.[14]
Members Jin
Known for their large social media presence, BTS were listed by
J-Hope
Forbes as the most retweeted artist on Twitter in March 2016.[15]
RM
Following that, Twitter launched its first ever K-pop Twitter emoji
featuring BTS.[16] In 2017, BTS broke the Guinness World Record for Suga
most Twitter engagements for a music group.[17] Also in 2017, BTS Jimin
won a Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist.[18] In June 2017, V
Time magazine named the band one of the 25 most influential people
Jungkook
on the internet.[19] BTS' achievements have also led the group to be
ranked #5 on Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list for 2017, a list ranking South
Korea's most powerful and influential celebrities.[20]
BTS
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Contents Transcriptions
 1 Name Revised Bangtan
2 History Romanization Sonyeondan
2.1 20102013: Pre-debut
McCune Pangt'an
2.2
20132014: Debut with2 Cool 4 Skool, O!RUL8, 2?, Skool Luv Reischauer Sonyndan
Affair and Dark and Wild Japanese name
2.3
2015: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, world tour, rising Kanji
popularity and critical acclaim
Hiragana
2.4
2016: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever, Youth Transcriptions
and Wings
Revised Bdan
2.5
2017: You Never Walk Alone, Love Yourself 'Her', and Crystal Hepburn Shnendan
Snow Kunrei-shiki Bdan
3 Artistry Synendan
4 Philanthropy
5 Endorsements
6 Members
7 Discography
7.1 Korean albums
7.2 Japanese albums
8 Tours and concerts
8.1 Korean/Japan/Asian tours
8.2 World tours
9 Filmography
9.1 Television
9.2 Variety shows on V LIVE
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Name
The group's name BTS is an acronym for the Korean expression Bangtan Sonyeondan (Hangul: ; Hanja: ),
literally meaning "Bulletproof Boy Scouts". In Japan, they are known as Bdan Shnendan (), which translates to the
same. On July 2017, BTS announced that in addition to being known as Bangtan Sonyeondan or Bulletproof Boy Scouts, they would
.[21]
also be known as "Beyond The Scene" as part of their new brand identity

History

20102013: Pre-debut
The first members of BTS were recruited through Big Hit Entertainment's "Hit it" auditions in 2010 and 2011. The lineup went
through several changes before being finalised in 2012. Six months prior to debut, the members began to gain publicity through
Twitter, video blogs, fancafe posts, and song covers onYouTube and SoundCloud.[22][23]

20132014: Debut with 2 Cool 4 Skool, O!RUL8, 2?, Skool Luv Affair and Dark and
Wild
The first album of BTS' "school trilogy" series and their debut single album, 2 Cool 4 Skool, was released on June 12, 2013, with the
lead single "No More Dream".[24][25] The album won them several New Artist of the Year awards, including at the 2013 Melon
Music Awards and Golden Disc Awards and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards.

On September 11, 2013, BTS released their first extended play, O!RUL8,2?, which consisted of 10 tracks. They also starred in their
own variety show, SBS-MTV's Rookie King Channel Bangtan. The premise of the show was based on a fake broadcast station,
"Channel Bangtan", through which the members parodied variety shows such as VJ Special Forces and MasterChef Korea. Rookie
King Channel Bangtanpremiered its eight-episode run on September 3, 2013.

The third part of the "school trilogy", their second EP Skool Luv Affair, was
released on February 12, 2014.[26] BTS promoted the album's title track "Boy
in Luv ()", releasing its music video on February 11.[27] The album
peaked at #3 on Billboard's World Albums Chart. BTS then came back with
"Just One Day ()", with its music video released on April 6.[28]

On March 7, Big Hit Entertainment announced that BTS would release their
Japanese debut single album, consisting of the Japanese language versions of
their previous releases.[29] The album, 2 Cool 4 Skool, was released on April
23; their first single was a Japanese version of "No More Dream".[30] On June BTS in 2014 performing atMnet M!
14, BTS took part in the Bridge to Korea festival in Russia, an event that Countdown
aimed to promote tourism between the two countries. There, they became
judges of a K-pop cover dance competition and later performed on stage in
front of 10,000 spectators.[31] The group also attendedKCON in Los Angeles alongside other artists on August 10, 2014.
[32]

On August 19, BTS released the music video for their comeback single "Danger" from their first full-length album, Dark & Wild,
ar of Hormone ( )", a track from Dark & Wild. Its music
which sold over 109,098 copies. They made a comeback with "W
video was released on October 21, 2014.[33]

BTS continued to promote in Japan, releasing their first Japanese studio album, Wake Up, on December 24. The album not only
included Japanese versions of their songs, but also the original Japanese tracks "Wake Up" and "The Stars".[34] They then held their
first concert tour, 2014 BTS Live Trilogy Episode II: The Red Bullet, throughout October, November and December. They toured
South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia.[35] During the 2014 Mnet Asian Music Awards, BTS was
nominated for the Best Dance Performance and UnionPay Song of the Year awards. In addition to performing "Boy in Luv", they
also had a collaboration stage withBlock B during the awards show.[36]

2015: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, world tour, rising popularity and critical
acclaim
From February 1019, 2015, BTS toured Japan for the first time with the Wake Up: Open Your Eyes tour. They performed to 25,000
fans in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka.[37] On March 28, BTS held their second solo concert in Korea, titled BTS Live Trilogy
Episode 1: BTS Begins.[38]

The group's third EP, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1, was released on April 29, 2015.[39] It was listed in June by Fuse as
one of the "27 Best Albums of 2015 So Far" and was the only Korean album listed that year.[40] On May 5, 2015, their title track "I
Need U" won first place on SBS MTV's The Show, which marked their first ever music show win since their debut.[41] The Most
Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1had sold over 200,000 copies since its release.[42]

On June 4, BTS released their fourth Japanese single, "For You", to celebrate the first anniversary of their Japanese debut, with its
music video released on the same day. The single climbed to the top on Oricon's daily chart, selling 42,611 copies within its first
day.[43] On June 23, BTS released their music video for their follow up single, "Dope ()", from The Most Beautiful Moment in
Life, Part 1, becoming BTS' first music video to hit over 100 million views.[44] "Dope" rose to its peak at number 3 on Billboard's
.[45]
World Digital Chart despite being released two months earlier
The group's world tour, 2015 Live Trilogy Episode: The Red Bullet, continued with stops in Malaysia, Latin America, Australia and
the United States, and ended in Hong Kong on August 29.[35] BTS was a part of the 2015 Summer Sonic Festival tour in Japan,
performing on August 15 at Tokyo's QVC Marine Field and on the 16th in Osaka.[46][47] They returned with the album The Most
Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2 on November 30. They also held a three-day concert tour, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: On
Stage, from November 2729, where they showcased their title track "Run".[48] The album charted at number one on the Billboard
World Albums and remained atop the chart for multiple weeks, making BTS the first K-pop act to achieve that feat.[49] At the 2015
Mnet Asian Music Awards, they received the Best World Performer in recognition of their international fanbase. During the event,
they performed "Run" and had a short collaboration stage with GOT7. The band released the Japanese version of "I Need U" as their
fifth Japanese single on December 8.[50]

2016: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever, Youth and Wings
BTS released their sixth Japanese single, "Run", on March 15, 2016.[51]
On May 2, they released a special compilation album, The Most Beautiful
Moment in Life: Young Forever and held two days of concerts at the
Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul from May 78 in support of the
album. A total of 24,000 fans attended.[52] After that, the group began
their Asia tour, which sold out 144,000 concert tickets.[53] The group also
headlined KCON in both Los Angeles and New York in June and July
2016, both to sold out audiences.[54]
Bangtan Boys at KCON France 2016 in Paris
On September 7, 2016, they released their second Japanese studio album on June 2, 2016.
Youth, selling over 44,000 copies on its first day of release, and shot up to
first place on the daily albums chart in Japan.[55] In October 2016,
Billboard placed BTS as #1 on theirSocial 50 chart, making them the first Korean group to top the chart.[56] To date, they have spent
48 weeks as #1 on the Social 50 chart.[57]

On October 10, 2016, BTS released their second full-length studio album,Wings, with the title track "Blood Sweat & Tears" (Korean:
). Pre-orders for the album reached over 500,000 copies within the first week.[58] The album managed to make it to the
U.K. Official Albums Charts, entering at #62, making history as the first Korean act to do so.[59] The album also debuted at #26 on
the Billboard 200 chart with 16,000 units earned in the week ending October 13. This made the new U.S. record for "Highest
Charting and Best Selling K-pop Album", with 2NE1's Crush previously holding the record at #61 in 2014. It also marked them as
the first K-pop act to log three entries on the Billboard 200, and Wings was the first album to spend more than one week on the
chart.[60][61] A few days later, it was revealed that BTS had topped the World Albums Chart, World Digital Songs Chart and Social
50 Chart for the week of October 29.[6] They also charted on YouTube's Music Global Top 100: 17th on the video chart, 6th on the
artist chart and 14th on the tracks chart.[62] The album's title track, "Blood Sweat & Tears", achieved an "all-kill" on the South
Korean music charts,[63] and went on to become the group's first domestic number one hit on the Gaon Digital Chart.[64] Within 24
hours of the music video for "Blood Sweat & Tears" being released, it reached over 6 million views. This broke the previous record
on YouTube for the highest number of views on aK-pop group music video within 24 hours.[65]

From November 1213, BTS held a fan meeting at Gocheok Sky Dome for which all 38,000 tickets sold out.[66] On November 19,
2016, BTS announced the Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour, set to visit South Korea, Chile, Brazil, the United States,
Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Australia. On the same day, BTS won Album of the Year for The Most
Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever at the Melon Music Awards. This award marked BTS' first daesang, or grand prize, since
debut.[4] On December 2, 2016, BTS won their second daesang for Artist of the Year at the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards.[9] By
( YG and JYP) to win the award.[67]
doing this, BTS became the first artist not from a "Big 3" entertainment companySM,

2017: You Never Walk Alone, Love Yourself 'Her', and Crystal Snow
In February 2017, BTS ranked fifth in Forbes magazine's Korea Power Celebrity list.[68] On February 13, they released a repackage
of their second full-length studio album, Wings, titling it You Never Walk Alone. Pre-orders for the album, which contained 4 new
tracks, reached over 700,000 copies.[69][70] Title track "Spring Day" (Korean: ) achieved an all-kill on eight of the major South
Korean online music charts, having crashed the Melon digital chart upon its initial release due to traffic overload.[71] "Spring Day"
entered the US Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at #15. A writer from the magazine highlighted the achievement as
the single was "almost all in Korean" and had "zero promotions in America".[72] The single also topped the Gaon Digital
Chart.[73][74] Within 24 hours of the music video for "Spring Day" being released, it reached over 9 million views.[75] This broke the
previous record on YouTube for the highest number of views on a K-pop group music video within 24 hours, previously held by the
music video for their previous single "Blood, Sweat, and Tears". However, the new record was broken a week later after the group
released the music video for "Not Today", which accumulated over 10 million views in said time span.[76] Similarly, "Spring Day"
became the fastest K-pop group music video to reach 20 million views, achieving the feat in less than four days; "Not Today" bested
this by reaching said number of views in less than 3 days.[77][78] The group performed the new tracks fromYou Never Walk Alone for
the first time at the South Korean leg of the2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour, a week after its release.

On May 21, BTS won the Top Social Artist Award at the Billboard Music Awards, becoming the first Korean group to win a
BBMA.[79]

The group released a cover of the Seo Taiji and Boys classic "Come Back Home" (originally from Seo Taiji and Boys IV) for Seo
Taiji's Time:Traveler project.[21]

The group released their fifth mini album, Love Yourself 'Her', on September 18, 2017.[80] The mini-album includes the track
"Best of Me", a collaboration with The Chainsmokers' Andrew Taggart.[81] Within 24 hours of release, the "DNA" music video
reached over 20 million views on YouTube, becoming one of the most viewed K-pop music videos within the first 24 hours.[82] On
September 25, 2017, BTS earned their first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 entry after debuting with the single "DNA" at number 85. They
became the first K-pop boy group to enter the chart and the second Korean act to do so with a Korean-language song.[83] On October
2, BTS scored the highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 for a K-pop group, beating the Wonder Girls' previous high record
of number 76 by 9 spots, gaining a position of 67.[84]

On October 14, an official post made on their Japanese website confirmed the group's release of an upcoming eighth Japanese single
album (their first Triple-A side single), coming out on December 6.[85] The album includes Japanese versions of two tracks from
[86][87]
Love Yourself 'Her', "Mic Drop" and "DNA" and an original new Japanese song entitled "Crystal Snow".

On November 3, the group confirmed that they will be performing at the American Music Awards, making them the first K-pop
group to perform at the show.[88][89] On November 7, Big Hit Entertainment confirmed a collaboration with Steve Aoki and
Desiigner for a remix of "Mic Drop" released on November 24.[90]

On November 22, the group was announced to be a part of the Guinness World Record Book for 2018 as a musical group who have
the most Twitter engagement.[91]

On December 1, BTS won their third daesang, Artist of the Year, at the 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards.[92] By doing this, BTS
.[93]
became the first ever K-pop artist to win the award two years in a row

Artistry
In BTS's early history, the group's musical style and image was mainly influenced by hip hop, in singles such as 'N.O.' and 'No More
Dream'.[94] They soon evolved to include a more R&B feel to their hip-hop as well as rock-inspired elements, in singles such as
"Danger" and "Boy in Luv ()".[95] With The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt. 1, BTS was noted to have shifted musically.
Although they still maintained a hip-hop image, they had also embraced their R&B side, with tracks such as 'Hold Me Tight'. Wings
brought a change in tone as it featured seven solo songs, with genres ranging from V's 'neo-soul' Stigma' to J-Hope's gospel-evoking
'Mama' and Suga's impassioned piano-rap in 'First Love'.[96] In You Never Walk Alone, 'Spring Day' evokes an alt hip-hop feel, with
British rock elements. BTS has also been noted for lyrics that "speak honestly about topics they deem important, even in a
conservative society."[97] Their releases have tackled subject matters such as school bullying and nonconformity to societal ideals, as
well as mental health issues, suicide, nihilism, the K-pop idol system, and female empowerment.[98] In their most recent mini-album,
Love Yourself: Her, the tracks Pied Piper and Go Go comment on BTSs own fanbase and an advocation for nihilistic spending in
the name of happiness and youth respectively. In the release before, You Never Walk Alone, Not Today is an anti-establishment
[99]
anthem, with messages advocating for minority groups.

In 2016, however, the group faced criticisms of misogyny regarding the lyrics of "War of Hormone", "Converse High", and RM's
solo song "Joke", as well as a Twitter comment made by Suga. The group's label later issued an apology.[100] BTS co-writes and
[101][102]
produces much of their output, which some media outlets have attributed for their success.

Philanthropy
Apgujeong-dong.[103]
In 2015, BTS donated 7 tons (7,187 kg) of rice to charity at the K-Star Road opening ceremony held in

[104][105][106]
In 2016, they participated in ALLETS's charity campaign "Let's Share the Heart".

In January 2017, it was revealed that BTS and Big Hit Entertainment had donated KR100,000,000 (US$85,000) to the 4/16 Sewol
Families for Truth and A Safer Society, an organization that is connected to the families of the 2014 Sewol Ferry Disaster. Each
member had donated KR10,000,000 and Big Hit Entertainment donated an additional KR30,000,000. The donation was
intended to have been made in secret.[107]

On October 31, 2017, BTS officially launched their 'Love Myself' campaign, in partnership with the Korean Committee for
UNICEF.[108] They revealed a new website called Love Myself, in collaboration with UNICEF that would support profits from the
#ENDviolence project. Big Hit revealed they plan to donate 500 million won ($448,000) from the members, 3% of all upcoming
Love Yourself: Her album sales and 100% of all sales of official goods for the "LOVE MYSELF" campaign over the next two years,
.[109][110]
as well as include donation desks installed by UNICEF

Endorsements
In 2015, BTS became brand ambassadors for Puma.[111] In 2016, Nexon released character avatars based on the members for their
RPG game Elsword.[112] That year, they topped the 'Boy Group Brand Power Ranking' published by the Korean Corporate
[113] and were the boy group with the highest brand reputation.
Reputation Research Institute for 9 out of 12 months, [114]

In 2017, BTS were chosen as the honorary tourism ambassadors for Seoul as part of the 'I Seoul U' programme. The group filmed an
advertisement produced by theSeoul Metropolitan Government, which was subsequently aired in over 100 countries.[115] They were
also chosen as the new brand models forLotte Duty Free Shop.[116][117][118]

Members
Jin (), born Kim Seok-jin (, December 4, 1992 )[119] vocalist[120]
Suga (), born Min Yoon-gi (, March 9, 1993 )[119] rapper[121]
J-Hope (), born Jung Ho-seok (, February 18, 1994 )[119] dancer, rapper[122]
RM, born Kim Nam-joon (, September 12, 1994 )[119] leader, rapper[123]
Jimin () Park Ji-min (, born October 13, 1995 )[119] dancer, vocalist[124]
V () born Kim Tae-hyung (, December 30, 1995 )[119] vocalist[125]
Jungkook (), born Jeon Jung-kook (, September 1, 1997 )[119] dancer, vocalist[126][127]

Discography

Korean albums Japanese albums

 Dark & Wild (2014) Wake Up (2014)
Wings (2016) Youth (2016)

Tours and concerts

Korean/Japan/Asian tours
2014 BTS Live Trilogy-Episode II: The Red Bullet (2014)
BTS Live Trilogy Episode I: BTS Begins (2015)
BTS's First Japan Tour-Wake Up: Open Your Eyes (2015)
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage (2015)

World tours
2015 BTS Live Trilogy Episode II: The Red Bullet (2015)
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life on Stage: Epilogue (2016)
2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The WingsTour (2017)

Filmography

Television
Rookie King: Channel Bangtan(SBS MTV) BTS-based reality show, Episode 18
American Hustle Life (Mnet) BTS-based reality show, Episode 18
, Episode 7[128]
BTS GO! (Mnet America) BTS-based reality show

Variety shows on V LIVE

Run BTS! Episode 129
BTS GAYO Episode 115
BTS Bokbulbok Episode 15
BTS: Bon Voyage a 10-day trip around North Europe celebrating their 3rd year
, Episode 18
BTS: Bon Voyage Season 2 a 9-day travel in Hawaii, Episode 18

See also
List of awards and nominations received by BTS
BTS videography

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