BTS ( Bangtan Boys)
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BTS, also known as Bangtan
Boys, is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed by Big
Hit Entertainment. Their name in Korean, Bangtan
Sonyeondan. They debuted on June 13, 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 those at the 2013 MelOn
Music Awards and Golden
Disk Awards, and the 2014 Seoul Music Awards. A year after their debut, they received major bonsang awards for their subsequent albums Dark & Wild and The
Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1. BTS continued rising
to widespread prominence with their The Most Beautiful Moment in Life trilogy, with The Most Beautiful Moment in Life,
Part 2 and The Most Beautiful Moment In Life:
Young Forever both debuting
inside the Billboard 200. The
Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2 also
charted at number one on the Billboard World Albums Chart and remained there
for multiple weeks, making BTS the first K-pop act to achieve that feat .The
Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever went on to win the coveted "Album
of the Year" award at the 2016 Melon
Music Awards. This win marked BTS's first daesang,
or 'grand prize', since their debut. The group continued to surpass themselves
with the release of their second full album, Wings,
which charted at #1 on iTunes in over 26 countries. The album also
debuted at 26 on the Billboard
200, which marked the highest chart ranking for a K-pop album ever, as well as
making BTS the first K-pop act to log three
entries onto the chart, and the first to spend more than one week on the chart.
In their native South Korea, Wings sold 681,924 albums in its first
month, breaking the record for the highest first month sale for an album in Gaon history,
as well as is the best selling album in Gaon history thus far. The album's title track, "Blood
Sweat & Tears" became the group's first domestic number one hit on the Gaon Digital Chart. To date, BTS's discography has sold an estimated 3.2 million
albums worldwide.