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ALBUMTake Two - SingleBTS
Albums by BTS
ALBUMBEBTS
ALBUMMAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ~ THE JOURNEY ~BTS
ALBUMMAP OF THE SOUL : 7BTS
ALBUMMAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONABTS
ALBUMLove Yourself 結 'Answer'BTS
ALBUMLove Yourself 轉 'Tear'BTS
ALBUMFACE YOURSELFBTS
ALBUMLOVE YOURSELF 承 'Her'BTS
ALBUMYOU NEVER WALK ALONEBTS
ALBUMWingsBTS
BTS's Popular Music Videos
Dynamite
BTS
Airplane pt.2 (Japanese Version)
BTS
Girl Of My Dreams (Lyric Video)
Juice WRLD, SUGA & BTS
My Universe
Coldplay & BTS
Butter
BTS
Lights
BTS
MIC Drop (Steve Aoki Remix)
BTS
Stay Gold
BTS
Yet To Come
BTS
Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey)
BTS
Artist Playlists
BTS Essentials
R&B, rap, and even metal are all part of this boy band's K-pop dance party.
BTS Essentials (Japanese Songs)
BTS Video Essentials
The K-pop superstars' visuals range from smart and complex to cute and goofy.
BTS: Deep Cuts
The K-pop boy band are always breaking boundaries.
BTS At 7
Seven members. Seven years. Fifty songs.
BTS: Fitness+ Spotlight
ARMY-powered tracks that are equal parts energetic and uplifting.
BTS: Chill
Take it easy with these soothing songs by the global pop idols.
Guest Playlist: BTS
BTS: “Songs that start with a tear.”
BTS: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Artist Biography
Calling BTS a boy band is a little like calling a computer a typewriter with a screen. Yes, they sing. Yes, they dance. Yes, they have cool haircuts and their outfits always match in an interesting way. But they also represent the power of pop music—simple, catchy pop music—as a force for social transformation, touching on subjects—mental health, LGBTQ identity, class inequity—taboo not just in their native South Korea but in the sunshine-and-rainbows world of mass-market culture generally. The official name of their fans (the ARMY), is an acronym for “Adorable Representative MC for Youth.” But the subtext is clear: These are people willing to fight for what they believe.
Formed in 2010 by K-pop impresario Bang Si-hyuk, 방탄소년단 (or Bangtan Sonyeondan), aka BTS—members V, j-hope, RM, Jin, Jimin, Jungkook, and SUGA—swiftly became not only one of the biggest groups in South Korea (and eventually the best-selling artists in the country’s history), but an emblem for K-pop’s migration into mainstream global pop—a feat made even more impressive by the fact that the band sings almost entirely in Korean. More than just developing a brand, BTS crafted a rich, reference-heavy alternate universe that invoked things like Jungian psychoanalysis and Nietzschean philosophy—not your most bankable teen-pop references. (The video to their 2016 track “Blood Sweat & Tears” is, if not the only music video in history to feature both a coordinated dance routine and a quote from the Hermann Hesse novel Demian, certainly the only one to have been watched more than half a billion times.)
But for as dense as the band’s mythology can get, their presence remains simple, clear, and uplifting. In 2017, they partnered with UNICEF in a campaign to protect young people from violence; the next year, their fans raised over $1 million in an effort to alleviate childhood malnutrition. SUGA once promised that if he got rich, he would buy his fans beef—a luxury in Korea. On his 25th birthday, he donated nearly $20,000 of it to orphanages. And he did it in ARMY’s name.
Formed in 2010 by K-pop impresario Bang Si-hyuk, 방탄소년단 (or Bangtan Sonyeondan), aka BTS—members V, j-hope, RM, Jin, Jimin, Jungkook, and SUGA—swiftly became not only one of the biggest groups in South Korea (and eventually the best-selling artists in the country’s history), but an emblem for K-pop’s migration into mainstream global pop—a feat made even more impressive by the fact that the band sings almost entirely in Korean. More than just developing a brand, BTS crafted a rich, reference-heavy alternate universe that invoked things like Jungian psychoanalysis and Nietzschean philosophy—not your most bankable teen-pop references. (The video to their 2016 track “Blood Sweat & Tears” is, if not the only music video in history to feature both a coordinated dance routine and a quote from the Hermann Hesse novel Demian, certainly the only one to have been watched more than half a billion times.)
But for as dense as the band’s mythology can get, their presence remains simple, clear, and uplifting. In 2017, they partnered with UNICEF in a campaign to protect young people from violence; the next year, their fans raised over $1 million in an effort to alleviate childhood malnutrition. SUGA once promised that if he got rich, he would buy his fans beef—a luxury in Korea. On his 25th birthday, he donated nearly $20,000 of it to orphanages. And he did it in ARMY’s name.
Hometown
Seoul, South Korea
Genre
K-Pop