History Awesome / BTS

** It also tied with Music/{{Aerosmith}} for the longest-running #1 by a group at four weeks. What makes this even better is that this took place during the month of June, meaning that BTS managed to get a #1 hit for both their debut day and their anniversary month.

** The song also reached #1 on iTunes in 100 countries within the first 12 hours of its release, making it their 9th song to achieve this.
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** It surpassed 100M views on [=YouTube=] much faster than Dynamite did, and did it in much less than 24 hours to boot, making it the fastest video in the site's history to reach that many views.
** On Spotify, it debuted with 11.042 million filtered streams, making it the biggest debut in the platform's history, and ended up on #2 for Spotify daily global streams that day. Especially impressive was the fact that due to its release time, it had only 20 hours of tracking for those numbers.
** The song also reached #1 on iTunes in 100 countries within the first 12 hours of its release, making it their 9th song to achieve this.

** RM's solo album ''Mono'' broke the record for most #1s for an Asian artist, holding 114 as of August 2020.

* "Film Out", the group's first new release of 2021, reached 101 #1s on iTunes about a week after its release. It also replaced ''"Dynamite"'', which had an 18-week-reign, as #1 on the Digital Sales Chart, being the first Japanese song in history to do so.

** 59 days after it was released, the music video surpassed 500 million views, setting a new record for the fastest MV to do so.

* Their nomination for the Best International Group 2021 at the BRIT awards (which are often cited as being "The Grammys of Britain") in the United Kingdom, the first Korean act to be nominated in general.

** [[https://magazine.weverse.io/article/view?lang=en&num=104&fbclid=IwAR1x9zXxo2BTZTMa2Ucp6Cz6jdG7xR-5i1znlcvd3eABx3UXM0LuwhR7H1E This article]] takes a deeper look into the powerful mental health messages of "BE" as well as Jin's [=SoundCloud=] track Abyss, which have been positively received by actual psychiatrists as shown in the article.

** Dynamite placed #10 on Global Top 10 Digital singles.
** ''MAP OF THE SOUL: 7'' and ''BE'' both made it into the Top 10 for the Album All-Format and Album Sales charts (#1 and #4 respectively on the former, and #1 and #2 on the latter). Especially impressive was ''BE'' making it onto both charts, since it was an album that was released in November 2020 and only had about one month of tracking. Not only that, but #8 on the Global Album Sales chart was also a BTS album, and it's none other than ''MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 - THE JOURNEY'', a Japanese album that didn't receive heavy promotions outside of Japan and mainly had Japanese versions of their existing songs.

** [[https://magazine.weverse.io/article/view?lang=en&num=104&fbclid=IwAR1x9zXxo2BTZTMa2Ucp6Cz6jdG7xR-5i1znlcvd3eABx3UXM0LuwhR7H1E This article]] takes a deeper look into the powerful mental health messages of "BE" as well as Jin's {{SoundCloud}} track Abyss, which have been positively received by actual psychiatrists as shown in the article.

* "Spring Day" is the longest-charting idol song and song in general and still counting on Melon!

* "Spring Day" is the longest-charting idol song and song in general and still counting on MelOn!

* Although the entire MMA 2020 performance by BTS was amazing, one moment of note is the intro of "Black Swan", where Jimin and Jungkook (the latter who isn't trained in ballet) manage to perfectly execute a pas de deux, which is often cited as one of the most difficult moves in ballet and requires a lot of strength and trust between the dancers. All while the stage was wet and slippery as well.

* Although the entire MMA 2020 performance by BTS was amazing, one moment of note is the intro of "Black Swan", where Jimin and Jungkook (the latter who isn't trained in ballet) manage to perfectly execute a pas de deux, which is often cited as one of the most difficult moves in ballet and requires a lot of strength and trust between the dancers.

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* Repeating their success from last year, BTS sweep all the daesangs again at the 2020 Melon Music Awards.

* BTS winning "Best International Duo/Group of the Year" at the NRJ Music Awards, making them the first Asian act ever to have a win at a major ''French'' award show (which until then had mainly European and North American artists nominated for awards).

* ''BE'' in general tackles a very sensitive topic (mental health and emotions felt during a disaster) and does it amazingly. Some songs, like "Blue and Grey" address things like depression and anxiety without putting the blame on the person suffering, subverting a lot of the toxic positivity narratives that often come with discussing it. All of the songs do lean towards the same message at some point though, that being that there is still hope for the future, no matter how bleak the situation may seem, though reaching that point can take time. [[https://www.bupipedream.com/ac/119326/auto-draft-663/ Many people throughout the world were able to relate to the lyrics and were comforted by the hopeful messages the album had to bring.]]

** According to [[https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1333611068690735105?s=20 the account chartdata]], this all also made them the first group in history to simultaneously top the Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Artist 100 charts. Not only that, but they also topped both Billboard Global charts, Social 50 and Digital Song Sales at the same time, all of this with both ''BE'' and "Life Goes On" on the top. This resulted in a brand new achievement dubbed a BAK, or "Billboard all Kill" similar to [=PAKs=] on Korean charts.

** The album becoming the group's 5th #1 album catches up to a record for the fastest group to have that many #1 albums consecutively... which was held by none other than ''The Beatles.'' Meanwhile, when "Life Goes On" became the group's third #1 hit, achieving the fastest accumulation of three #1 hits since the Bee Gees.

* The fact that "Life Goes On" and ''BE'' got so many #1s on Billboard charts simultaneously that ''an entirely new achievement'' came into being, the Billboard all-kill (#1 on every Billboard chart at once). They're not just the first Korean and Asian act to do this, but the first group in ''music history'' to do so.

* The fact that "Life Goes On" and ''BE'' got so many #1s on Billboard charts simultaneously that ''an entirely new achievement'' came into being, the Billboard all-kill (#1 on every Billboard chart at once). They're not just the first Korean and Asian act to do this, but the first act in ''music history'' to do so.

* The fact that "Life Goes On" and ''BE'' got so many #1s on Billboard charts simultaneously that ''an entirely new achievement'' came into being, the Billboard all-kill (#1 on every Billboard chart at once). They're not just the first Korean and Asian act to do this, but the first ''artist'' in music history to do so.