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BBS wrote about BTS:  

 

BTS: The enduring power of the princes of K-pop

 

© Heather Chen & Minji Lee @ BBC NEWS

 

"... But come 2017 and enter BTS, the seven-piece boyband who last year managed to go where no K-pop act had gone before by conquering a notoriously difficult and unforgiving market: the US.

 

A highly successful US tour propelled their musical combination of pop, hip-hop and R&B - mostly in Korean - on to the global stage.

 

They had the highest charting album ever by a K-pop act on the Billboard 200 charts and in November, became the first K-pop act to top the US iTunes chart.

 

Add that to their Billboard Music Award win in May, where fans voted them Top Social Artist, beating the likes of Justin Bieber.

 

The boys wrapped up a milestone year by making social media history too.

 

On Twitter, they received several honours which included "most engagements for a music act" and their very own emoji, and they were named the year's most retweeted artist.

 

The US embassy in Seoul even revealed that their tweet with the highest engagement in 2017 was about BTS..."

 

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Poor haters

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Princes?, more like Kings BBC, and not only they have young fans (the west is so masturbative about this fetiche, they wanna can them so bad into a bb) but also they are not an spear for kpop, kpop remains basic af, it's a miracle of their own; more research was needed for this article

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