By 2017, BTS had crossed into the global music market and led the Korean Wave into the United States, becoming the first Korean ensemble to receive a Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for their single 'Mic Drop', as well as the first act from South Korea to top the Billboard 200 with their studio album Love Yourself: Tear (2018). The group's second Korean studio album, Wings (2016), was their first to sell one million copies in South Korea. BTS released their first Korean and Japanese-language studio albums, Dark & Wild and Wake Up respectively, in 2014. Their discography and adjacent work has also referenced literature, philosophy and psychological concepts, and includes an alternate universe storyline.īTS debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. Originally a hip hop group, their musical style has evolved to incorporate a wide range of genres, while their lyrics have focused on subjects including mental health, the troubles of school-age youth and coming of age, loss, the journey towards self-love, individualism, and the consequences of fame and recognition. The band consists of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, who co-write or co-produce much of their material.

BTS (Korean: 방탄소년단 RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan lit. Bulletproof Boy Scouts), also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010.

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