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  Speaker 1: BTS Korean r R Bangton Sonyonden lit. Bulletproof Boy Scouts,
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  Speaker 1: also known as the Bankton Boys, is a South Korean
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  Speaker 1: boy band formed in twenty ten. The band consists of
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  Speaker 1: Gene Suga, j Hoope r M, Jimin V and Yung Kouk,
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  Speaker 1: who co write or co produce much of their material.
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  Speaker 1: Originally a hip hop group, they expanded their musical style
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  Speaker 1: to incorporate a wide range of genres. While their lyrics
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  Speaker 1: have focused on subjects including mental health, the troubles of school, age,
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  Speaker 1: youth and coming of age, loss, the journey towards self love, individualism,
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  Speaker 1: and the consequences of fame and recognition. Their discography and
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  Speaker 1: adjacent work has also referenced literature, philosophy, and psychology, and
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  Speaker 1: includes an alternate universe storyline. BTS debuted in twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: under Big Hit Entertainment with the single album two Cool
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  Speaker 1: for School. BTS released their first Korean and Japanese language
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  Speaker 1: studio albums, Dark and Wild and Wake Up respectively, in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand tie fourteen. The group's second Korean studio album,
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  Speaker 1: Wings twenty sixteen, was their first to sell one million
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  Speaker 1: copies in South Korea. By twenty seventeen, BTS had crossed
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  Speaker 1: into the global music market and led the Korean Wave
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  Speaker 1: into the United States, becoming the first Korean ensemble to
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  Speaker 1: receive a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of
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  Speaker 1: America RIA for their single Mic Drop, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the first act from South Korea to top the Billboard
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  Speaker 1: two hundred with their studio album Love Yourself Tear two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eighteen. In twenty twenty, BTS became the fastest group
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  Speaker 1: since the Beatles to chart four US number one albums
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  Speaker 1: in less than two years with Love Yourself Answer twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: becoming the first Korean album certified platinum by the RIA.
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  Speaker 1: In the same year, they also became the first all
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  Speaker 1: South Korean act to reach number one on both the
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  Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred and Billboard Global two hundred with
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  Speaker 1: their Grammy nominated single Dynamite. Follow up releases Savage Love,
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  Speaker 1: Life Goes On But Permission to Dance and My Universe
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  Speaker 1: made them the fastest act to earn six US number
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  Speaker 1: one singles since the Beatles in nineteen sixty six. As
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, BTS is the best selling musical
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  Speaker 1: act in South Korean history. According to the Circle Chart,
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  Speaker 1: having sold in excess of forty million albums two. Their
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  Speaker 1: studio album Map of the Soul seven twenty twenty, is
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  Speaker 1: the fourth best selling album of all time in South Korea,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the first in the country to surpass
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  Speaker 1: both four and five million registered sales. They are the
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  Speaker 1: first non English speaking and Asian act to sell out
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  Speaker 1: concerts at Wembley Stadium and the Rose Bowl Love Yourself
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  Speaker 1: World Tour twenty nineteen, and were named the International Federation
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  Speaker 1: of the Phonographic Industries IFPI Global Recording Artist of the
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  Speaker 1: Year for both twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. The
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  Speaker 1: group's accolades include multiple American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards,
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  Speaker 1: Golden Disc Awards, and nominations for five Grammy Awards. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of music, they have addressed three sessions of the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations General Assembly and partnered with UNSEF in twenty seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to establish the Love Myself anti violence campaign. Featured on
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  Speaker 1: Times International cover as Next Generation Leaders and dubbed the
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  Speaker 1: Princes of Pop. BTS has also appeared on Times lists
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty five most Influential People on the Internet
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen and the one hundred most
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  Speaker 1: Influential People in the World twenty nineteen, and in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: became the youngest recipients of the South Korean Order of
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  Speaker 1: Cultural Merit for their contributions in spreading the Korean culture
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  Speaker 1: and language. On June fourteenth, twenty twenty two, the group
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  Speaker 1: announced as scheduled pause in group activities to enable the
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  Speaker 1: members to complete their eighteen months of mandatory South Korean
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  Speaker 1: military service, which they all completed by June twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Their first group album in almost four years, Errang, is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to be released on March twentieth, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Two thousand ten to twenty fourteen Formation and Early Years
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  Speaker 1: BTS in two thousy thirteen, performing at the Inchan Music Center.
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  Speaker 1: BTS was formed in two thousand ten after Big Hit
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment CEO Bang Siehuk wanted to form a hip hop
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  Speaker 1: group around RM Kim Nom June, an underground rapper well
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  Speaker 1: known on the music scene in Seoul. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: physical album sales were on the decline and digital revenues
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  Speaker 1: were not yet high enough to compensate. Nine. Seeing a
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  Speaker 1: need for diversified income streams, Bang decided to form an
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  Speaker 1: idle group instead. Because of the potential for live concert
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  Speaker 1: performances and passionate support from fans of such groups. Many
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  Speaker 1: trainees refused to become part of an idol group, but Jhope,
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  Speaker 1: r M and SUGA remained. Nine Bang chose to vary
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  Speaker 1: from the usual highly regimented idol groups and create one
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  Speaker 1: where the members would be individuals rather than an ensemble
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  Speaker 1: and free to express themselves. Ten eleven auditions were held
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand ten, with plans to launch the following
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  Speaker 1: year twelve thirteen. The band members lived together, practicing up
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen hours a day, and first performed before a
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  Speaker 1: small crowd of ind Stree and ciders in twenty thirteen fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: We started to tell the stories that people wanted to
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  Speaker 1: hear and were ready to hear, stories that other people
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  Speaker 1: could not or would not tell. We said what other
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  Speaker 1: people were feeling, like pain, anxieties and worries. That was
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  Speaker 1: our goal to create this empathy that people can relate to.
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  Speaker 1: SUGA fifteen BTS's representation by Big Hit rather than one
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  Speaker 1: of the three agencies that dominated K pop at the time,
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  Speaker 1: allowed the individual members leeway to express their individuality and
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  Speaker 1: have input into the music. Sixteen. On June twelfth, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: BTS released their debut single album Too Cool for School,
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  Speaker 1: along with the lead single No More Dream, neither of
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  Speaker 1: which sold particularly well at the time. Seventeen. On June thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, BTS made their stage debut on M Countdown
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  Speaker 1: with the single No More Dream eighteen. Nevertheless, according to
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Sprinkle in her book on BTS, that single was
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  Speaker 1: spotlighting young peace people's anxiety in the face of lofty
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  Speaker 1: parental expectations sent shock waves through the K pop ranks.
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  Speaker 1: Here was a musical act that wasn't pulling any punches.
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  Speaker 1: More specifically, they had a point of view, and they
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  Speaker 1: weren't afraid to take on topics that are considered taboo
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  Speaker 1: in South Korean society and elsewhere. Nineteen the album reached
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  Speaker 1: the top five on South Korea's Jaan Music chart. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: in two, Cool four School Bts employed an old school
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  Speaker 1: hip hop sound from the nineteen ninety s twenty one
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. The album's release was followed by appearances on
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  Speaker 1: Korean music shows, which caught the attention of reviewers and viewers.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty four. In September twenty thirteen, BTS released
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  Speaker 1: the second entry in their School trilogy, the EPO r
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  Speaker 1: UL eight two. The album was released alongside the single
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  Speaker 1: n O twenty five twenty six. Similarly to two Cool
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  Speaker 1: for School, the new release had a theme of students
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  Speaker 1: feeling under pressure and needing to sacrifice their dreams and
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  Speaker 1: as Inspirations twenty five. According to Skala Kyung hyun Kim,
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  Speaker 1: many of BTS's earlier works such as Eno and No
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  Speaker 1: More Dreams were expressions of rebellion against the establishment that
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  Speaker 1: tapped into Korean teenager's frustrations with the country's educational system,
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  Speaker 1: and he stated helped them build a fan base among
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  Speaker 1: young people in North America and Europe twenty seven. That
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  Speaker 1: same month, BTS starred in their own variety show sbs
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  Speaker 1: MTV's Rookie King Channel Bankton, in which members parodied variety
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  Speaker 1: shows such as VJ, Special Forces and Master Chef Career
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight. At the end of the year, BTS was
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  Speaker 1: recognized with several New Artists of the Year awards in
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  Speaker 1: South Korea twenty nine, thirty thirty one, twenty fourteen, twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: School Love Affair and first concert tour. Exterior of the
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  Speaker 1: night club Troubadour photo taken two thousand six, where BTS
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  Speaker 1: held their concert in the US for free. The last
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  Speaker 1: entry in BTS School trilogy, the School Love Affair EP,
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  Speaker 1: was released in February twenty fourteen, thirty two thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: The release topped the Jay And Album Chart thirty four
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  Speaker 1: and appeared on Billboard's World Album's Chart for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: peaking at number three thirty two thirty five. The EP
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  Speaker 1: was supported by two singles, boy in Love and Just
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  Speaker 1: One Day thirty six. Following School Love Affairs release, BTS
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  Speaker 1: played at their first fan meeting in Seoul, selecting the
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  Speaker 1: name A R M Y for the fan club thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: In July two thousand fourteen, BTS hosted a concert in
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  Speaker 1: West Hollywood, their first show in the United States thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and in August they appeared at k c O N
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles thirty nine. In August two thousand fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: BTS released the album Dark and Wild, which reached number
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  Speaker 1: two in South Korea thirty six forty. It was supported
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  Speaker 1: by two singles Danger and War of Hormone thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: The group embarked on their first concert tour two thousand
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  Speaker 1: fourteen BTS Live Trilogy Episode two, The Red Bullet, which
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  Speaker 1: lasted from October to December twenty fourteen. Forty d on.
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  Speaker 1: The band launched their first Japanese studio album, Wake Up,
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  Speaker 1: in December twenty fourteen. The release peaked at number three
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  Speaker 1: on the Oricon Album's chart. Forty two after the album's release,
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  Speaker 1: BTS held their first Japan tour two thousand fifteen wake Up,
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  Speaker 1: Open Your Eyes. In February twenty fifteen forty three. The
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  Speaker 1: Red Bullet Tour, that had begun on October seventeenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourteen in South Korea, was resumed on June sixth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifteen in Malaysia and toured Australia, North America, and Latin
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  Speaker 1: America before ending in Hong Kong that August. In all,
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  Speaker 1: the entire tour attracted eighty thousand spectators at eighteen cities
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  Speaker 1: in thirteen countries forty one forty four mainstream breakthrough and
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  Speaker 1: commercial success, BTS experimented with other styles of music besides
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  Speaker 1: hip hop in The Most Beautiful Moment in Life PT One,
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  Speaker 1: released in twenty fifteen, thirty six forty five BTS wanted
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  Speaker 1: to express the beauty and anxiousness of youth and settled
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  Speaker 1: on the title of Korean Ara Weaiyangianwa, loosely interpreted to
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  Speaker 1: define youth metaphorically as the most beautiful moment in life.
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  Speaker 1: Forty six. The album served as an introduction to their
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  Speaker 1: Youth Trilogy, a triptych of albums dedicated to the struggles
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  Speaker 1: of young people. Forty seven. The single Lie Need You
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  Speaker 1: was a top five hit in South Korea and garnered
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  Speaker 1: the group a win on sbs MTV's The Show forty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Forty nine, the second single, Dope Korean Ara Jorio lit
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  Speaker 1: Its Awesome, reached number three on Billboard's World Digital Song
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  Speaker 1: Sales Chart, and its music video was viewed over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million times on YouTube. Fifty fifty one. The group
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  Speaker 1: began the World Tour extension of their Red Bullet tour
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  Speaker 1: in June, titled two thousand fifteen Live Trilogy Episode two
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  Speaker 1: The Red Bullet, visiting cities throughout Asia, Oceania, North America,
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  Speaker 1: and Latin America. Forty one for You in Japanese was
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  Speaker 1: released together with Japanese versions of War of Hormone and
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  Speaker 1: Let Me Know on June seventeenth to twenty fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: immediately topped Aurikhan's Daily chart thirty six fifty two. BTS
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  Speaker 1: performing at k COO and France in Paris on June second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. In November, BTS commenced their third concert tour
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  Speaker 1: two thy fifteen BTS live The Most Beautiful Moment in
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  Speaker 1: Life on stage, beginning with three sold out shows in Soul.
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  Speaker 1: The tour marked the debut of their fourth EP, The
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  Speaker 1: Most Beautiful Moment in Life Part two, and was later
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  Speaker 1: extended to Japan fifty three fifty four. Thematically, the EP
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  Speaker 1: focused more on the serious and speculative aspects of youth,
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  Speaker 1: touching on the pursuit of success, loneliness, affection for their origins,
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  Speaker 1: and the suffering of the younger generation due to unfavorable
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  Speaker 1: conditions in current society fifty five. The album topped the
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  Speaker 1: Weekly Jayan Album and Billboard World Album's Charts fifty six
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven. It also marked their first appearance on the
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  Speaker 1: Billboard two hundred chart fifty eight, making it for wor
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  Speaker 1: one week at number one seventy one fifty nine, and
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  Speaker 1: eight of the tracks appeared on Billboard's World Digital Song
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  Speaker 1: Sales Chart sixty Their compilation album and the finale to
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  Speaker 1: their Youth trilogy, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Young
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  Speaker 1: Forever was released on May second, two thousand sixteen, with
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand presold copies sixty one. It included three
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  Speaker 1: new singles epilogue Young Forever, Fire and Save Me Comma
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  Speaker 1: thirty six sixty two, which debuted in the top three
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  Speaker 1: spots on the Billboard World Digital Charts sixty one. The
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  Speaker 1: album topped the Jan Album chart in South Korea for
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  Speaker 1: two consecutive weeks and reached number one hundred seven on
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  Speaker 1: the Billboard two hundred sixty three sixty four sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Young Forever one Album
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  Speaker 1: of the Year at the two thousand sixteen Melon Music Awards.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty six. BTS embarked on their Asia Tour extension two
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  Speaker 1: thousand sixteen BTS live The Most Beautiful Moment in Life
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  Speaker 1: on stage Epilogue from May to August two thousand sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets for the fourteen shows in ten Asian cities sold out,
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  Speaker 1: some in as little as five seconds. Sixty seven. BTS
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  Speaker 1: won their first major Korean award for Album of the
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  Speaker 1: Year at the two thousand sixteen Melon Music Awards on
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  Speaker 1: November nineteenth, two thousand sixteen. In September two thousand sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: BTS released their second Japanese studio album, Youth sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: The album sold forty four thousand, five hundred forty seven
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  Speaker 1: copies on the first day of its release and charted
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  Speaker 1: first in the Oricon Daily Album Chart sixty nine seventy.
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  Speaker 1: The album was eventually certified gold with sales of roughly
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand in Japan seventy one. It was
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  Speaker 1: followed one month later, in October thirty six by their
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  Speaker 1: next studio album, Wings, which combined the themes of Youth
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  Speaker 1: presented in their previous Youth trilogy with temptation and Adversity
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  Speaker 1: seventy two. The album and its tracks, including the single Blood,
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  Speaker 1: Sweat and Tears, immediately rose to the top on eight
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  Speaker 1: music charts, including the Jayan Music Chart, and led the
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  Speaker 1: iTunes album charts in twenty three countries seventy three seventy four.
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  Speaker 1: Wings opened at number twenty six on the Billboard two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: with sixteen thousand album equivalent units in the US for
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  Speaker 1: the week of its release, the best week ever there
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  Speaker 1: for a K pop album seventy five. It became the
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  Speaker 1: best selling album in Jayan album chart history seventy six
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  Speaker 1: You Never Walk Alone and Love Yourself her. In February
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, BTS released the repackaged edition of Wings, entitled
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  Speaker 1: You Never Walk Alone. The seven hundred thousand pre orders
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  Speaker 1: of it, an increase from the five hundred thousand pre
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  Speaker 1: orders of Wings, helped break the record for most albums
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  Speaker 1: sold in a month in South Korea, as it reached
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  Speaker 1: one point four nine million copies by the end of
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  Speaker 1: its first month seventy seven seventy eight. The lead single
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  Speaker 1: was Spring Day thirty six, and it won Best Song
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  Speaker 1: of the Year at the two thy seventeen Melon Music
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  Speaker 1: Awards seventeen. BTS's second world tour twenty seventeen BTS Live Trilogy,
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  Speaker 1: Episode three, the Wings Tour, began in February eighty On
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  Speaker 1: the tour, BTS played arenas in the US such as
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  Speaker 1: New Jerseys Prudential Center and California's Honda Center. Tickets for
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  Speaker 1: the North American leg sold out within hours and two
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  Speaker 1: shows were added. Eighty one eighty two. After completing the
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  Speaker 1: North American leg, BTS attended the twenty fourth Billboard Music
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  Speaker 1: Awards in May and one Top Social Artist eighty three,
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  Speaker 1: the first K pop group to win a Billboard award
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  Speaker 1: eighty four. BTS fans cast over three hundred million votes
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  Speaker 1: for the band and broke a six year winning streak
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  Speaker 1: held by Justin Bieber, a performer with one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: Twitter followers eighty five. This caused the international media to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the ability of BTS's fandom to propel the
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  Speaker 1: group to such a victory eighty five. BTS at their
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  Speaker 1: press conference in Seoul, South Korea, after winning Top Social
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  Speaker 1: Artist at the same twenty fourth Billboard Music Awards on
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  Speaker 1: May twenty ninth, twenty seventeen. BTS released a remake of
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  Speaker 1: co Tig's come Back Home nineteen ninety five in July
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, giving it new lyrics but maintaining the theme
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  Speaker 1: of urging societal change eighty six. Later that year, BTS
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  Speaker 1: embarked on their Love Yourself album series with theme of
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  Speaker 1: the enlightenment of self love through the Korean arah jisungiandial
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  Speaker 1: narrative sequence of beginning, development, turn and conclusion eighty seven.
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  Speaker 1: BTS released its first part, their fifth EP, Love Yourself
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  Speaker 1: Her on September eighteen, eighty four, eighty eight. R M
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  Speaker 1: considered DNA, the lead single from that album eighty nine,
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  Speaker 1: as taking BTS to new ground. We tried to apply
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  Speaker 1: new grammar and perspectives thirty six. He said of the album,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's going to be the starting point of
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  Speaker 1: a second chapter of our career, the beginning of our
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two ninety. Sonically, the EP served as a dual
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  Speaker 1: exploration of the group's electropop and hip hop leanings. To
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine BTS at the forty fifth American Music Awards
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  Speaker 1: shortly before making their u S television debut on November nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. Love Yourself Her debut at number seven
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  Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred ninety one. The album had
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  Speaker 1: one million, six hundred sixty four thousand, forty one sales
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  Speaker 1: in May two thousand seventeen to lead the Jay in
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  Speaker 1: Chart ninety two, and was the first in sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: to exceed one point two million copies sold since goods
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  Speaker 1: fourth album, Chapter four, two thousand, one ninety three ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: DNA was released simultaneously with the EP, and its music
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  Speaker 1: video accumulated twenty one million views in its first twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours. Ninety five, it became BTS's first entry on
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  Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred, charting at number eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: making them the first K pop boy band two reach
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  Speaker 1: that chart. Ninety six. The single rose to number sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven the following week and became the highest charting song
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  Speaker 1: on the Hot one hundred for any K pop group.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety seven, A remix of Mike Drop from the album
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  Speaker 1: Featuring Designer was released as a single and peaked at
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  Speaker 1: number twenty eight, the first time a K pop group
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  Speaker 1: had cracked the top forty ninety eight ninety nine. Both
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  Speaker 1: singles attained gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of
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  Speaker 1: America ri A in early twenty eighteen. One hundred Mike
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  Speaker 1: Drop achieved platinum status in the US later that year
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  Speaker 1: one hundred one. In November two thousand seventeen, BTS became
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  Speaker 1: the first K pop group to perform at the American
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  Speaker 1: Music Awards one hundred two, one hundred three. BTS one
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  Speaker 1: Artist of the Year at the nineteenth net Asian Music
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  Speaker 1: Awards in December, winning for the second consecutive year one
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  Speaker 1: hundred four. They released DNA and Mike dropped together with
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  Speaker 1: a new song, Crystal Snow, as a single album in
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  Speaker 1: Japan on December sixth, two thousand seventeen, though the songs
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  Speaker 1: were made digitally available elsewhere thirty six one hundred five.
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  Speaker 1: It topped the Oricon chart for the week of its release.
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  Speaker 1: It was the only album by a foreign artist to
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  Speaker 1: be certified double platinum in Japan in twenty seventeen one
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  Speaker 1: hundred six one hundred seven. Later that month, they made
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  Speaker 1: their Japanese television primetime music show debut on music station
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  Speaker 1: super Liv one hundred eight, and ended the year by
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  Speaker 1: performing on Dick Clark's New Year's Rock and Eve one
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  Speaker 1: hundred nine, one hundred ten. In twenty seventeen, BTS partnered
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  Speaker 1: with UNISEF on the Love Myself campaign, intended to help
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  Speaker 1: end violence, abuse and bullying and to promote self esteem
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  Speaker 1: and well being among young people. Both Big Hit and
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  Speaker 1: the group pledged money to promote the campaign, and BTS
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  Speaker 1: sold special Love Myself merchandise and set up dedicated booths
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  Speaker 1: at concert venues. The campaign was renewed in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: with UNICEF deeming it to have been successful one hundred
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  Speaker 1: eleven twenty eighteen twenty twenty Love Yourself album series. BTS
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  Speaker 1: won major awards at the Golden Disc and Soul Music
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  Speaker 1: Awards in January twenty eighteen, one hundred twelve, one hundred thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: In March, the group premiered an eight episode documentary titled
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  Speaker 1: Burn the Stage that offered a behind the scenes look
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  Speaker 1: at their twenty seventeen Wings tour exclusively on YouTube Premium
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  Speaker 1: one hundred fourteen, one hundred fifteen. Their third Japanese studio album,
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  Speaker 1: Face Yourself, was released on April fourth, twenty eighteen, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred sixteen and quickly reached the top five of the
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  Speaker 1: US iTunes album's chart. A nine minute short film titled
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  Speaker 1: Euphoria theme of Love Yourself Wonder and featuring the song Euphoria,
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  Speaker 1: followed the next day as a prelude to the group's
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  Speaker 1: third Korean language studio album, Love Yourself Tear one hundred seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: BTS promoted tiers May eighteenth, twenty eighteen release with an
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  Speaker 1: appearance at the twenty fifth Billboard Music Awards two days
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  Speaker 1: later one hundred eighteen, where they made their initial BBMA
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  Speaker 1: performance with their single Fake Love one hundred nineteen one
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  Speaker 1: hundred twenty. The group also one Top Social Artist for
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  Speaker 1: a second consecutor of Time one hundred twenty one one
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  Speaker 1: hundred twenty two. The album coincided with the Or turn
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  Speaker 1: of the series, touching on the tortuous enlightenment of loving
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  Speaker 1: without being loved, the pains and sorrows of separation, and
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  Speaker 1: providing encouragement to those without dreams one hundred twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: BETS at their press conference for Love Yourself Tier on
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  Speaker 1: May twenty fourth, twenty eighteen. Love Yourself Tier debut at
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  Speaker 1: number one its first week on the Billboard two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: becoming BTS's first number one album in the US and
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  Speaker 1: the first K pop album to top the US Album's
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  Speaker 1: Chart one hundred twenty four. It also became BTS's first
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  Speaker 1: top ten release in Britain, reaching number eight on the
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  Speaker 1: UK Album's Chart one hundred twenty five. Fake Love became
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  Speaker 1: BTS's top ten single on the Hot one hundred, the
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  Speaker 1: first time a song sung mostly in a language other
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  Speaker 1: than English had debuted in the top ten one hundred
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. BTS released their compilation album Love Yourself Answer
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  Speaker 1: in August twenty eighteen, one hundred twenty seven. The album
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  Speaker 1: was supported by the single Idol and its alternative digital
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  Speaker 1: release featuring Nicki Minaje one hundred twenty eight one hundred
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. Love Yourself Answer sold over one point nine
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  Speaker 1: million copies on the Jayan album chart. In August twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thirty The album became BTS's second number one
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  Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred and led to their highest
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  Speaker 1: U S sales week in the country to that point,
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  Speaker 1: with one hundred eighty five thousand album equivalent units one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thirty one. In November two thousand eighteen, Love Yourself
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  Speaker 1: Answer became the first Korean language album to be certified
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  Speaker 1: gold by the RIA. One hundred one. Idol and Love
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  Speaker 1: Yourself Answer both received platinum certifications in the U S
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  Speaker 1: with sales of more than one million, one hundred thirty
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