ARMY Magazine - Monthly Issues ARMY Magazine ISSUE NO.2 - DEC 2018 | Page 8

BTS the first K-pop group to reach
more than one million pre-orders.
Her debuted at number one in
Korea on the Gaon Album Chart, with
all of its tracks placing in Top 40 of the
Gaon Digital Chart. The group
continued to break records in Korea,
with the album becoming the
highest-selling release of September
2017, having sold over 1.2 million
copies since its release.
Additionally, it has the second
highest monthly sales in the history of
the Gaon Chart, as well as being the
first album in 16 years to exceed
1.2 million.
LOVE YOURSELF 承: Her came to
be BTS’ highest-selling
album, overtaking WINGS (2016),
as well as the best-selling album in the
history of the Gaon Chart, with over
1.6 million copies sold (as of
March 2018).
Asian artist in seven years to debut
within the Top 10 of the chart.
The album remained on the Billboard
200 for 27 weeks, the only Korean
album to do so. Another record the
group set was becoming the first
K-pop group to enter the Billboard Hot
100 chart with a Korean song.
Hot 100 is a standard by which the
popularity of a song is measured in the
United States, which makes this an
important milestone in BTS’ career.
Her showed its power by making
BTS the first K-pop group to reach
US iTunes Top 5 with the lead
single “DNA.” The album continued to
impress as it officially had the highest
total of number ones on iTunes – in a
grand total of 78 countries.
The album was doing great,
and BTS attained even more
exposure in America. This resulted in
BTS making their first television debut
at the American Music Awards,
TAKING OVER THE U.S.
where they performed “DNA”, which
The album broke records not only in
was
another
stepping
stone
on
the
South Korea but also took the United
path
to
conquering
the
U.S.
market
States by storm. BTS broke barriers
and
establishing
themselves
as
as foreign musicians with Her,
worldwide influences. Along with that,
earning the attention of America.
the group landed major interviews and
The album opened up at number
appeared
on
“Jimmy
Kimmel
Live!,”
seven on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart,
“The
Late
Late
Show
with
making Her the highest-charting
James
Cordon,”
and
“The
Ellen
K-pop album on the chart and
DeGeneres Show,” where they got to
earning the biggest sales week of a
K-pop album. This made BTS the first perform and talk about their music.
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