K Pop or Korean Pop is currently on the rise. BTS is one of the most popular K Pop boy bands and has gained a lot of fame the last few years.
Let’s find out more about them!
1.BTS band is also known as “Bangdan Boys” and “Beyond the Scene”.
2. The were formed by Big Heat Entertainment, which is a South Korean entertainment company established in 2005!
3. They started their major success by the song “No More Dream”, from their first album “2 Cool 4 Skool” on 12 June 2013.
4. In order for the band to be formed Big Heat Entertainment auditioned to recruit the members of the band on 2010!
5. The band had been completed six months prior to their debut!
6. BTS is composed by seven male members.
7. The members of the band are the following: Jin (vocals), Suga (rapper), J-Hope (rapper), RM (rapper), Jimin (vocals), V (vocals), Jungkook (vocals).
8. RM is also the leader of the band!
9. BTS had been listed by Forbes as the most retweeted artist on March 2016!
10. Their social media presence is unbelievably large!
11. The band has been nominated and has won countless awards in Asia and worldwide!
12. They have more than 4 studio albums!
13.. Their first studio album is Dark and Wild and was released on August 19, 2014!
14.. They also have 2 Japanese Albums.
15.The Wake Up which includes the Japanese versions of “No More Dream”, “Boy in Luv”, and “Danger”, and Youth!
16. BTS also starred in their own variety show SBS-MTV’s Rookie King Channel Bangtan (2013)!
17.In 2019 they collaborated with the famous American singer Halsey for the song Boy with Luv.
18. They have performed in 5 concerts tour and 3 of them were worldwide.
19.They have also made 4 fan meeting tours.Their solo concert tour in 2014 (1 year after their debut) was named “The Red Bullet Tour”.
20. The Red Bullet Tour attracted more than 80.000 speculators, and was expanded to Australia, North & South America. It started from Asia though.
21. BTS in 2015 donated the huge amount of 7 tons of rice to charity at the K-Star Road opening ceremony held in Apgujeong-dong!
22. The band also participated in ALLET’s charity campaign “Let’s Share The Heart” in 2016.
23. They also made another donation which intended to be secret, but it was revealed that BTS and Big Heat Entertainment donated 85.000$ to the 4/16 Sewol Families for Truth and A Safer Society on January 2017!
24. They have won the grand total of 53 awards throughout their career!
25. BTS’s highly dedicated fun base, is also called ARMY!!!
26. At the AMAs of 2017 people witnessed massive “fan chants”!
27. BTS were invited at the Ellen Show on November 27, 2017!
28. RM, the leader of the band said that he learned English by watching the sitcom show Friends.
29. RM’s full name is Kim Nam-joon, and he was born September 12, 1994! The initials RM come from Rap Monster!
30. RM has also released his first solo mixtape in 2015 and was the first member that had been recruited for BTS!
31. Suga, one of the rappers of the group was born on 9 March, 1993! Apart his love for rapping, he has another great love! The piano! He enjoys playing the piano, and he is the one to always show how much he adores sleeping!
32. J-Hope‘s real name is Jung Hoseok! He was born on 18 February 1994, and he hates working out!
33. Jimin’s full name is Park Jimin!!! He was born on 13 October 1995, he likes nice and cute girls and preferrably smaller than him!
34. V‘s real name is Kim Taehyung! He was born on 30 December 1995, and likes almost all of the cartoons in Tooniverse!
35. Jungkook‘s full name is Jeon Jungkook! He was born on 1 September 1997, and is the youngest member of the group! He is talented in both singing and in dancing!!!
36. At the beginning of their formation, their musical style and image were mainly influenced by the hip hop!
37. As the band evolved they started to include an R&B feel to their hip-hop as well as rock-inspired elements!
38. Their songs have touched upon subject matters such as school bullying and nonconformity to societal ideals, as well as mental health issues, suicide, nihilism, the K-pop idol system, and female empowerment!
39. The original name is “Bangtan Sonyeondan” which means “Bulletproof Boy Scouts” in Korean.
40. It signifies deflecting stereotypes, criticisms, and expectations like bullets.
41. BTS hold a leading role in producing most of their own music.
42. BTS performed at the 2017 American Music Awards which was their first ever TV performance in the United States.
43. BTS was the first K-Pop group to get their own Twitter emojis.
44. The emoji was established as a challenge for BTS to find where their biggest fanbases were located.
45. In the end, Brazil, Turkey, and Russia came out on top.
46. BTS has sold at least 7 million albums globally as of July 2018.
47. Their album “Love Yourself: Her” retailed more than 1.2 million copies on South Korea’s Gaon Album Chart in its first month of release.
48. It managed to become a phenomenon and it broke the record of the biggest selling Korean album by month in 16 years.
49. BTS has two certified Gold singles – “Mic Drop Remix” and “DNA.”
50. There are the first and so far only Korean artist to acquire two Gold certifications
51. All BTS members are brand ambassadors of Puma.
52. They have been Coca Cola’s campaign models in 2018.
53. Elsword, an RPG game by Nexon, revealed character avatars based on the members of BTS.
54. In the future, Jungkook has said that he either wants to own a duck restaurant or be tattoo artist.
55. During their debut performance, Jin’s pants fell down! It must have been an akward moment…
56. There is a BTS dorm, where they all live together.
57. In the BTS dorm, they used to collect 1,000 wons from any member who broke a house rule (wons is the Korean currency).
58.Eventually, they got rid of the charge because people kept breaking the rules and the money they had to pay was too much.
59. The money they collected from this rule was mostly used to buy chicken & pizza.
60. When South Korea beat Germany in World Cup BTS’s new song “Fake Love” climbed 31 spots in the charts.
61. BTS landed a spot on Time Magazine’s 2018 list of 25 Most Influential People on the Internet.
62.When BTS paired up with UNICEF, inspired fans eagerly donated to the cause and raised $1,000,000 in less than two days for UNICEF’s campaign to feed malnourished children.
63. The shortest member of BTS is Jimin.
64. The tallest member of BTS is RM.
65. None of the BTS members are from Seoul. They are not even from the same province.
66. BTS and all of South Korean music along with other genres are not allowed in North Korea.
67. In February 2019 a USB stick with BTS songs was found in a house in a city is North Korea. The ones who owned the USB were arrested and taken to a detention center.
68. Before Suga was introduced to hip-hop, he only listened to Classical music.
69. Originally, Jimin’s stage name was supposed to be either Baby J or Young Kid.
70 Namjoon IQ reaches 148 and Jungkook’s and Jimin‘s IQ reaches 128.
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