BTS SOUTH KOREA ACHIEVEMENTS
BTS SOUTH KOREA ACHIEVEMENTS
2 Cool 4 Skool is the longest charting album for 290 weeks on Top 100 of the Gaon Album chart. [Source] [Source] [Source]
BTS has 4 albums in the top 5 spots in the Best-Selling Albums in South Korea (after 2000). [Source]
LY: Answer is the Best-selling Korean Album of the Century. It is also #1 from 1998-2018. [Source]
âLove Yourself â Answerâ sold a total of 2,197,808 copies so far making it the fastest-selling single record to sell over 2M copies in Gaon history. [Source] [Source]
They are the currently the youngest artists in the top 15 best selling albums in SK. [Source]
LY Answer is the highest selling individual album on Gaon of all time. [Check latest updates online as proof]
BTS has 4 albums in the top 5 Best Selling Albums in Gaonâs History.
BTS has the Top 3 Best Selling Albums in Hanteoâs History
BTS has the Top 3 Best Selling Albums in Hanteo for 1st Week Sales. [Source]
BTS is the first & only Korean Act to get 1M sales in the 1st week of sales in Hanteo. [Source]
LY Tear has reached 1.22M copies sold & is the best selling album in Hanteo Chart history. Tear is the first album in Hanteo history to reach 1.2M sales. [Source]
LY Her sets new Gaon chart record In 16 Years with more than 1 million Albums Sold since g.o.d. [Source]
According to the KOFICEâs (Korean Foundation for International Culture Exchange) annual report (called 2017 hallyu what paper), itâs officially announced that BTS is the only million seller in Korea after g.o.d. in 16 years. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3 â Click 2017 íë„ë°±ì (2018-05-08)]
BTS is the only pure triple million seller in Hanteo.
BTS are Quintuple million sellers. [Source]
The Love Yourself series occupies the top 3 spots on the list of highest first-month sales on Gaon. [Source]
BTS is the first Korean Act to achieve over 1 million copies just in domestic pre-orders with Love Yourself Her. [Source] [Source 2]
BTS Becomes the 1st Artist To Receive Official Million Certification From Gaon. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3]
BTS becomes the first Korean Act to get a hat trick with 3 albums getting 1M domestic pre-orders with the LY Series. [Source]
Love Yourself: Answer has surpassed Tearâs pre-orders as the highest (domestic) pre-orders for a Korean Group Act with 1,511,910 copies in the first week. Amazon + Target pre-orders not added here. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3]
BTS is the first Korean artist to sell more than 2 million (approx. 2.6M) copies of their albums in one year (2017) since Seo Taiji and Boys, who sold 2,220,000 albums in 1992. [Source 1] [Source 2]
BTS is the first Korean group to have multiple albums exceed one million pre-orders. [Source]
Love Yourself Tear broke the previous record for the highest 1st week album sales on Hanteo Chart with 850k sales in only 4 days. [Source]
BTS Love Yourself Tear is the first & only album to become the fastest to surpass 1M copies in Hanteo within 7 days (6 days to be exact). [Source][Source 2]
BTS is the first & only Korean Act to have 3 consecutive albums become 1M+ sellers without repackage. (LY Her, LY Tear and Answer). [Source]
BTS breaks their own record for the highest monthly sales in Gaon Chart history with LY Answer (1,933,450 copies) in 8 days. This marks both the highest number of albums sold in Gaon Chart history and the highest first month sales ever in Gaon Chart history. [Source]
LY Tearâs first monthly sales in Gaon Chart were 1.66M in just 14 days. [Source] [Source 2]
BTS sell over 1.66 million copies of an album in under a month (in the first 2 weeks) since release for the first time in 18 years. This marked the highest monthly sales of any one album (not including repackaged albums) released in Korea since 2000, when ballad singer Jo Sung Mo sold 1,705,127 copies of his third album in a single month. [Source] [Source 2]
BTS sold a total of 1,774,643 copies of all albums on Gaon for the month of May. That marks the most albums sold in a single month by any artist in Gaon Album Chart history. [Source]
BTS has the most selling albums for a Korean Act (if we include both Gaon and Oricon sales) [Source]
BTS has #1 in the Best Selling Albums in the Gaon Album Chart for a consecutive 3 years so far. [Source]
Love Yourself: Answer has broken Love Yourself: Tearâs first day record of 20k albums. It has surpassed 23,000 pre-orders on ktown4u in less than 8 hours. 40K+ sales on ktown4u for Love Yourself: Answer in just 20 hours.
LY: Answer has surpassed 141k+ pre-orders on ktown4u, the second best selling album on the website (after Tear which had 160k). [Source]
BTS Becomes 1st Artist To Receive Double Million Certification From Gaon. They are the 1st to achieve 2M sales with a single album in 18 years (the last record was set in 2000) and the 5th act to achieve 2M single album sales following Kim Gun-mo, Seo Taiji and Boys, Shin Seung Hun, and Jo Sung-mo. [Source] [Source] [Source]
BTS is the fastest act to surpass 10M album sales on Gaon. This is an achievement in 5 years, 6 months since they debuted, the shortest time for a Korean artist since 2000. [Source] [Source] [Source]
BTS sold 5,150,410 albums on Gaon in 2018 alone, making them the highest-selling Korean artist in an year. [Source]
BTS got 3 songs in the top 5 longest charting idol group song on Melon with Spring Day at #1, BST at #3 and DNA at #5. BTS is currently the only group with three songs in the top 5. [Source]
Spring Day is the 3rd longest charting song on Melon. [Source]
BTSâ âSpring Dayâ is the most-liked song in Melonâs history. DNA is the 2nd most liked song in Melonâs history. [Source]
BTS is the first Korean group to surpass:
100k likes with 31+ songs (most songs) on Melon.
200k likes with 4 songs on Melon.
300k likes with 3 songs on Melon.
Spring Day is the only male Korean group song since June of 2015 to surpass 2M-2.5M digital downloads on Gaon. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3] [Source 4] [Source 5]
Spring Day is the only Idol Group song in the Top 10 Longest Charting Songs on Melon. [Source]
âSpring Dayâ is the longest charting song in Gaonâs Top 100 with 93 consecutive weeks. The record was previously held by Park Hyo Shinâs âWild Flowerâ with 92 consecutive weeks. [Source]
BTS is the first and only boy group to surpass 100M streams on Gaon with 2 songs. [Source]
BTS is the first and only boy group to surpass 100M streams on Gaon with 3 songs (DNA, BST & Spring Day). [Source]
FAKE LOVE is BTSâ first song to get Certified All Kill & Perfect All Kill on Korean charts. [Source] [Source]Â
FAKE LOVE achieved 60 PAKs in less than 118 hours after the song was released making it the fastest song by Korean group to ever achieve this after the chart reform. FAKE LOVE had 62 PAKs. [Source]
BTS has achieved AK, CAK, MAK, PAK, BAK, SAK (SoundCloud All Kill), BKAK (Billboard Korea 100) and GAK so far. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3]
FAKE LOVE becomes the first song in 2018 to achieve a perfect 1000 score, which is a big achievement and rarely happens on the Soompiâs K-Pop Music Chart. The last song to do so was Girlsâ Generations; âLion Heartâ back in 2015. [Source]
LY: Tear is the first album to reach 1B (1.419 billion) Gaon digital score while BTS is the first Korean artist to achieve 2 Billion (2.601 billion) Gaon digital index points in 2018. [Source]Â
BTS is the first Korean Artist to achieve both 2, 3, 4 Billion Gaon digital index points in 2018. Their album is also at #1 in digital points. [Source] They currently have 4,037,290,982 digital points. [Source]
LY: Tear is the first album to surpass 2B digital index points on Gaon. [Source]
BTS surpassed 5B Gaon digital points in 2018 alone. [Source]
BTS and Wanna One hold the #1 spot for the Artist with most number of songs in Top 10 within the same week in Kpop Hot100. [Source]
BTS songs are still charting in Korea K-pop 100 (includes data from Melon, Bugs & NaverMusic). DNA and Spring Day are charting for 57 weeks by now which shows longevity. It is the highest week in the chart since the chart was revived.
BTS is the only Korean Act to have 2 songs still charting with the highest weeks on Korea K-pop 100 since chart revival. [Source]
BTS is the first male kpop group not from YG to have a PAK. Only YG male groups get PAKs so BTS is the first one to break that wall. [Source]
BTS is the 3rd male group to get a PAK. only three K-Pop male groups have done so far.
BTS had the most songs charting in the Gaonâs Digital Chart of 2017 for Male Groups.
âIDOLâ is the second song this year to spend four weeks on top of our chart, with TWICEâs âHeart Shakerâ in the Soompiâs K-Pop Music Chart. [Source]
BTSâs âIDOLâ has joined in on the history of Soompiâs K-Pop Music Chart to spend six weeks as No. 1 song. The only other three songs to achieve this immortal feat are BIGBANGâs âLieâ (which is the only song that spent seven weeks on top), Wonder Girlsâ âTell Me,â CNBLUEâs âLove,â and PSYâs âGangnam Style.â [Source]
According to MMA, Spring Day ranked second in the list âThe Song which is charting the most on Melon music Chart for the last 10 yearsâ. [Source]Â
BTS is the Most Followed Artist on Melon. [Source]
BTS, being from a non Big 3 company, broke the status quo in the Korean industry by winning daesangs in MMA.
BTS won the Global Artist Daesang in MMA 2017. The interesting thing about this award is that the last time someone got this award was Psy in 2013 and was later discarded. The fact that this award was brought back for BTS shows how much BTS made an impact on the global scale after Psy. [Source]Â
BTS broke the record for winning the most awards won in one year at the Melon Music Awards with 7 awards won. SNSD previously held the record with 6 awards since 2009. [Source]
BTS is the first artist to win both AOTY and AROTY simultaneously in the same year at Melon Music Awards.
BTS is the 3rd artist to claim 2 Daesangs in a single year at the Melon Music Awards.
BTS is the 3rd artist to complete all 3 main daesangs won at the Melon Music Awards.
They are the only artist who have received 4 different daesangs (including 2017âs Global Artist Daesang).
BTS, being from a non Big 3 company, broke the status quo in the Korean industry by winning daesangs in MAMA.
BTS are the first non-big three idols to win Artist of the Year at MAMA (MAMA was created in 1999) and are the first non-big 3 idols to win the GDA daesang. [Source]
They became the first act to win the âArtist of the Year Awardâ two years in a row at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. [Source]
First Act to win âArtist of the Yearâ 3 years in a row.
First Act from a âsmall labelâ to win the most âArtist of the Yearâ daesangs.
BTS has the record for winning the most awards won in one year at the MAMA with 10 awards won. [Source]
BTS is the 3rd Act to get both AROTY and AOTY in the same year at MAMA.
First Act to win 3 different daesangs in MAMA 2018.
BTS is the 1st and only Korean idol/group to get the main Daesang (Best Musician) in the Korean Music Awards (the Korean Grammys). They are currently the youngest winners in the âBest Musicianâ list. (Psy is not considered an idol by critics and Koreans)
BTS is the only group (or Act??) to get nominated in all 3 daesang categories on KMAs in an year.
BTS, being from a non Big 3 company, broke the status quo in the Korean industry by winning daesangs in MAMA, Melon, GDA and SMA since almost all the daesangs were won by groups from big 3.
10 out of the last 11, the GDAâs Disc Daesang was within SM. BTS broke a 9 year consecutive SM streak by winning the Disc Daesang. [Source]
For 12 years, the SMA Daesang was won by artists / groups from the Big 3. BTS broke a 12 year consecutive streak by winning the Disc Daesang. [Source]
BTS got 4 rookie awards from GDA, SMA, MMA and Gaon in 2013-2014.
BTS received the Commendation of Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2016. [Source]
BTS was the first group to be nominated for the Commendation of President at Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards in 2017. [Source] [Source 2]
BTS is the first Korean idol to win the âOrder of Cultural Meritâ and they are also the youngest nominee (only 5 years of experience). This award is higher than the Presidential Award. All seven members of BTS are awarded the Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit. Following Gangnam Style singer Psy receiving the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit in 2012, BTS are the only other pop musicians to be bestowed with the awards. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
BTS is the first in Soompi Awards history to take home 6 group awards (highest number) in 2018 (7 if we also add Best Idol Actor which V won). [Source] [Source 2]
BTS are the only musicians to win at the 44th Korean Broadcasting Awards. They again won in the 45th Korea Broadcasting Prizes in 2018 (two years in a row). [Source] [Source 2] [Source]
Commemorating the 600th anniversary of King Sejongâs accession to the throne and the 572nd Hangul proclamation day, the city of Seoul and Korea Local Industrial Culture Association have selected BTS as the recipient of the Sejong Best Korean award for promoting Hangul worldwide. [Source] [Source]
The civic group Nationâs People Preserving the Korean Language announced that BTS has been chosen as the âTop Promoter of the Korean Languageâ in 2018. [Source]
BTS is the Korean group with most awards won in a single year (2018) (125 awards estimated). [Source]
Korea Green Foundation will be giving BTS, the award âPeople Who Made The World Brighter in 2018.â BTS will be awarded because âthey have swayed and given hope to teenagers worldwide.â [Source]
Big Hit Entertainment, who is making Korea shine through BTS, received the âBest Management Company Awardâ and âInvestment Company of the Year Awardâ at the 9th Korea VC Awards for creating high-quality jobs and greatly contributing to fund of funds. [Source] [Source]
The Korean Journalists Association chose BTS as one of the 12 recipients of the 2018 âThe Proud Korean Awardâ for enhancing national prestige music category. BTS and IU are the only two celebrities to make the list. [Source] [Source]
BTS won the SFCC Award for Raising Awareness of Korea Overseas which is given by the Seoul Foreign Correspondentsâ Club (who covers Blue House) to big influential figure in Korea of the year. [Source]Â
BTS is the youngest act ever to receive the Gaon K-pop Contribution Award / Lifetime Achievement Award. [Source]
Love Yourself World Tour named best concert during the 6th Edaily Culture Awards. [Source] [Source] [Source]
The founder of K-Pop, Seo Taiji, chose BTS as his successors. It took him 2 decades in choosing a successor!? Well it shows he wasnât impressed by the 2nd and 3rd generation groups until BTS came along.
Many legendary people like Shinhwa, Tablo, Psy, Cho Yong Pil, Tiger JK, Seo Taiji etc. gave their respect to BTS.
The SK public calls BTS âThe Nationâs Prideâ or âThe Nationâs Proud Sonsâ. Ask any Korean citizen for proof.
BTS was the only K-pop act to perform in the âBridge to Koreaâ festival in Russia (to promote tourism between the two countries) in 2014. They were spreading Korean culture since 2014. They also participated as judges for a K-pop cover dance competition in the event. [Source] [Source]
In 2018âs End Year Award Shows, K-Award Shows are building their schedule around BTSâ free time to ensure they attend. This is a high level of respect, prestige and privilege given to any Korean Act. [Source] [Source]
The President of South Korea acknowledged BTS for their achievement. Army is also the 1st fandom that gets recognition and cheer by the president. [Source] [Source 2] [Source 3]
Lim Hyung-joo, the legendary UN Peace Medal (United Nations Peace Medal) winning Popera Singer, has been a huge supporter of BTS since Wings. He always believe that BTS will get a Grammy Nominee. [e.g. Source] [Source 2] [Source 3]
According to the Sisa Journal â 2018 Who rules Korea? BTS is at #2 in the Broadcasting & Entertainment sector. BTS is one of two singers (Psy at #9) in Top 10 in Broadcasting & Entertainment sector. Others are MC/comedian, news anchor and actor. [Source] [Source 2]
BTS received custom made watches from the President of South Korea. [Source] [Source]
BTS x TWICE effect: international copyright royalties for K-Pop has reached 7.9 billion won as of Sep 30, more than 2017âs total of 7.7 billion. [Source]
BTSâ estimated economic effect surpassed 1 trillion Won. In 2012, at the heyday of âGangnam Styleâ, KOTRA had a 4.4% rise in the national brand value and the resulting value of assets is 665.6 billion won (NetShark said it is $896M) (another article says that Psy had overall 1 trillion won). But, BTSâ estimated economic effect has exceeded 1 trillion won ($1B). So basically, BTS surpassed Psy in the economic effect. [Source] [Source 2]
The economic value generated by BTS is now estimated at around 4 trillion won (US$3.54 billion) annually. [Source] [Source] [Source] They surpassed both Psy, Bae Yong-joon & Winter Sonata. [Source] [Source]
BTS is estimated to have an economic effect of bringing in 56.16 trillion won into South Koreaâs economy from 2014 to 2023. This is more money than the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, per the Hyundai Research Institute. [Source] [Source]
BTS fandom ARMY is worth billions to the South Korean economy. This is the first time that a fandom is worth billions to SK. [Source]
Because of their popularity, BTS is bringing more tourists to Seoul than ever before. [Source]
The Office of Korean Tourism reported that there had been an increase in tourists for the month of August because of BTS. [Source]
BTS is rumored to be the #1 most profitable K-pop group in history. [Source] [Source]
BTS and the President of SK attended Korea-France companionship concert on October 14 in Paris. BTS performed at a show titled âThe Echo of Korean Musicians.â [Source] [Source]
BTS and Samsung are compared in terms of their global success. [Source]
According to the Korea Music Copyright Association, the value of copyright fees collected from BTSâ new album during the first three quarters of this year was tabulated at 15.5 billion won. [Source]
124,448 people enrolled since KBxBTS rollout on 6/21, total balance of â©67.5B ($60M), BTS bankbook, app w monthly msg from BTS, special interest rates on BTS debut anniversary & membersâ birthdays. [Source]
KB Kookmin Bank extended the selling of their financial product âBTS term depositâ one month more. Usually this kind of star marketing is sudden popular, but BTS saving is steady selling, for last 6 months, they have 230K accounts. [Source]
Through BTS, the feasibility of the Ent. companiesâ stocks has been proved. The stocks used to be affected by the âKorea banâ of China but now they have entered the US & Europe with high investment value.â [Source]
Their contract renewal is a record too. No idol has ever stayed with a company for 14 years. But BTS promised. The history that no other idol has done before is being made by BTS and Big Hit. [Source]
According to an academic conference on popular Korean music, BTS has transcended the K-pop frame. Thatâs why theyâre seen as almost the antithesis of K-pop. (in simple words, it means that BTS is not k-pop but are beyond k-pop) [Source]
K-media calls BTSâ music not K-pop but they call it BTS-pop. [Source]
BTS is the 1st K-pop group to remove the âK-popâ label. [Source] [Source]
Global Cyber University stated âBTS Universityâ in their advertisement to promote new enrollment for 2019 as 6 members of BTS (except for Jin) attended broadcast course at the uni. [Source]
A photo of BTS was included in the 2019 calendar of Blue House (CheongWaDae, the office of South Korea president, Moon) This calendar was been made for the promotion of Korea as limited edition, which was distributed to foreign diplomatic offices. [Source]
BTS brings $3.6 billion a year to South Korea. 800,000 visitors reportedly went to South Korea because of BTS, which is more than seven percent of the countryâs annual tourists. [Source] [Source]
BTS was featured in the exhibition âCome Here, Springâ an exhibition of the Blue House of Korea. They presented works by artists who focus on the progression of peace between South Korea and the North. [Source] [Source]
There is a demand for more Korean sounding instrumentals after BTS released IDOL. Due to BTS âIDOLâ stage with gugak, more music creators from home & abroad are looking for gugak instrumental sounds. [Source] [Source]
BTS has increased Koreaâs consumer good exports by an avg of $1.1 billion/year. [Source] [Source]
It was later said that people in the fashion industry who donât normally watch award shows monitored them this time out of curiosity to see what fashion brand BTS wore. [Source] [Source]
BTS as Seoulâs Honorary Tourism Ambassador. [Source]
SKâs toy maker Sonokong Co Ltd jumped 10.2% after its top shareholder Mattel Inc announced its worldwide licensing agreement with BTS. [Source]
BTS is considered the leading reason to the increase of 16M+ Hallyu fans from 2017, up 22% â despite THAAD + issues affecting China & Japan. [Source] [Source] [Source]
How BTSâs Embrace of Korean Tradition Helped Them Blow Up. [Source]
On a report about Korean economy & why the world sees Korea as an advanced country, some of the reasons listed: 9th largest trading nation, 6th largest exporter, a trade volume of more than 1 trillion US dollars and BTS, who have captured the world youth, exists. [Source] [Source]
Global Cyber University (where 6/7 BTS members study) is hosting a âBTS talk concertâ called âLY: BTS 7 storiesâ about âthe past & present of Hallyu through BTS seven stories. [Source]
Jungkook shared a brand of fabric softener âDownyâ that he currently uses. It soon led to a shortage of the product and the productâs name topped Naverâs real time search rankings. Downy informed that unexpectedly 2 month worth of stock got sold out in a day with a sudden increase of orders. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
According to Seoul Economy TV, KCI (P&Gâs surfactant supplier)âs stock price went up 3.52%. The media analyzes that the rising is from Jungkook. [Source] [Source]
Ms. Cheon, the creator of Ryan in KakaoTalk has reportedly moved to Bighit recently. She was famous as the creator of Ryan the biggest hit in KakaoFriends. She will be the chief of the dept. of character & emoticon business in Bighit. [Source] [Source]
BTS was chosen to represent Korea in the Korean entertainment department for 2019 National Representative brands. This is about choosing which brand or who represents Korea the best in different categories in the global scale. [Source]
Lotte Duty Freeâs âYouâre So Beautifulâ MV performed by BTS has been named in Google Koreaâs top 20 YouTube ads for 2018. [Source] [Source]
The leading economic research in Korea said â2019 the key words for Korean Economyâ should be BTS. [Source]
Critics say BTSâ cross-industry movement is different from any other K-pop artists. âEverything about BTS was different from existing K-pop groups, from its inception to its way of creating a phenomenonâ. One music industry insider points out that BTS has succeeded in achieving Marvel-like world fame. [Source]
Hyundai Research Institute identified 7 causes for hope for the SK economy. They named BTS as one of the 7 as they estimate the group to have a positive impact on the economy. HRI estimated that BTS adds approx $3.66b to the SK economy and $1.26b to added value annually. [Source]
