On June 19, BTS discharged the Japanese single, "Stay Gold", from their fourth Japanese album, Map of the Soul: seven – The Journey, which was discharged worldwide on July fourteen.
It surpassed 564,000copies in its 1st week, breaking the record for highest 1st-week album sales by male foreign artists in Japan.
BTS discharged their 1st English-language single, "Dynamite", on August twen ty-one.
"Dynamite" debuted at ideal on the U.S.A. sign Hot one hundred charts, earning BTS their 1st chart-topper and creating them the primary all-South Korean act to earn variety one single within the U.S.A.. the additionally topped sign new international two hundred for the week ending Sep twenty-four, moreover as international Excluding U.S.A. charts, turning into the primary single to high each at the same time.
"Dynamite" peaked at variety 5 on the U.S.A. thought high forty and on the. sign Pop Singles chart, turning into their 1st high ten on every and also the former the highest-charting entry by a Korean act.
On Augustthirty-one, BTS created their MTV Video Music Awards debut with the primary live performance of "Dynamite" and won four awards: Best cluster, Best Choreography, Best Pop Video, and Best K-pop.
On October fourteen, they performed at the 2020 sign Music Awards and won the highest Social creative person award for a fourth consecutive year.
On October two, 2020, BTS discharged a remix of Jawsh 685 and mythical being Derulo's single "Savage Love ".
It topped the sign Hot one hundred charts. On October ten and eleven, BTS hosted a two-day virtual pay-per-view concert, at KSPO Dome in the capital of South Korea, known as Map of the Soul ON:E, that John Drew 993,000 viewers representing 191 countries or regions.
On November twenty, BTS discharged their fifth Korean studio album Be, with "Life Goes On" as its lead single. "Life Goes On" debuted at ideal on the sign Hot hundred charts.
With this, BTS achieved their third consecutive ideal on the new one hundred in 3 months. "Life Goes On" became the primary song performed primarily in Korean to achieve the highest spot thereon chart.
On November twenty-four, 2020, BTS became the primary Korean pop artist to be recognized by the Recording Academy once "Dynamite" received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
The cluster won the Special International Music Award at the 62nd Japan Record Awards.
Kim, in his book on the influence of Korean common culture, prompts that 2020, the worst year in several people's lives, was a motivating one for Korean culture, with Parasite winning the honor for the Best image, and BTS posting 3 number-one hits on the sign international two hundred.
2021– present
BTS, the Best, "Butter", "Permission to Dance" and Proof
On March 4, 2021, the IFPI named BTS its international Recording creative person of the Year for 2020, {the 1st|the primary} Asian and first non-English speaking act to high the ranking.
BTS occupied 3 spots within the international Album Sales Chart of 2020 with Map of the Soul: seven coming back in at ideal, Be at variety 2, and Map of the Soul: 7–The Journey at variety eight.
within the freshly launched international Album All Format Chart, Map of the Soul: seven claimed the primary position, and Be claimed the fourth position.
On March fourteen, 2021, BTS performed "Dynamite" at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, turning into the primary Korean pol to perform, although they failed to win the award. On April 1, BTS discharged "Film Out", the primary single from their coming Japanese compilation album.
BTS command a two-day online streaming event on their YouTube channel starting Apr seventeen, titled Bang Bang Con twenty, and airy 3 of their previous in-person concerts.
BTS discharged their second English-language single, "Butter", on May 21.
The song debuted at ideal on the sign Hot one hundred chart—their fourth ideal in 9 months—making them the fastest act to realize four variety ones since Justin Timberlake in 2006 and also the quickest cluster since the Jackson five in 1970.
Their next English-language single, "Permission to Dance", was discharged on July nine.
Among the literary and other sources that have inspired their works are those by Haruki Murakami, Ursula K Le Guin, Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Nietzsche.
The Love Yourself series was influenced by Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, and their 2018 song "Magic Shop" from Love Yourself: Tear was inspired by James R. Doty's memoir Into the Magic Shop.
Musical style
Since their inception, BTS has emphasized hip hop as their musical base, largely due to the influence of RM and Suga's background as underground rappers; during visits to the US, the group has received mentoring from American rappers.
Bang Si-hyuk previously acknowledged that K-pop as a whole draws from black music, and author Crystal S.
Anderson noted, "BTS's rising popularity in the US represents the continuation of the ways that K-pop functions as part of a global R&B tradition."
BTS experimented with R&B, rock, and jazz hip hop on Dark & Wild in 2014; EDM in their The Most Beautiful Moment in Life album series; moombahton and neo-soul on Wings and You Never Walk Alone; future bass, Latin pop in their Love Yourself album series; Korean rap, electro-disco, slow-dance ballads, emo rap, Afro-pop, funk, trap, pop rock, and hip pop in their Map of the Soul album series; and disco pop in their single "Dynamite".
Lyrical themes
Since their formation, BTS have believed that telling their own stories is the best way for the younger generation to relate to their music.
Writing many of their lyrics, the group discusses universal life experiences such as sadness and loneliness in their work and turns them into something lighter and more manageable.
RM said that BTS tries to avoid a preaching or reprimanding tone in their songs "because that's not the way that we want to spread our message... We're born with different lives, but you cannot choose some things.
So we thought that love, the real meaning of it, starts with loving ourselves and accepting some ironies and some destinies that we have from the very start."
When asked if it is difficult to write about things like mental health, Suga responded, We feel that people who have the platform to talk about those things really should talk more, because they say depression is something where you go to the hospital and you're diagnosed, but you can't know until the doctor talks to you...
More and more, I think artists or celebrities who have a voice should talk about these problems and bring them up to the surface.
Early BTS entries, such as "No More Dream" and "N.O" from their school trilogy, were described by Herman as motivated by personal experiences with South Korea's rigid approach to education and called for a change to the educational system and societal expectations.
The members' experiences with South Korean youth culture also inspired the songs "Dope" and "Silver Spoon" from their youth trilogy.
These songs reference generational disparity and millennials having to give up romantic relationships, marriage, children, proper employment, homes, and social life in the face of economic difficulties and societal ills while facing condemnation from the media and older generations.
The Love Yourself series introduced new themes regarding youth culture in South Korea, including the excitement of love, the pain of farewell, and the enlightenment of self-love.
According to Sprinkel, BTS' 2020 "quarantine album" Be "chronicles the group's coming to terms with a suddenly new reality and offers support for their listeners going through the same upheaval and uncertainty".
BTS' lyrics have also addressed topics outside of youth culture specifically.
The song "Am I Wrong" from Wings questioned societal apathy towards changing the status quo; the lyric "We're all dogs and pigs / we become dogs because we're angry" appeared to reference South Korean Ministry of Education official Na Hyang-work, who advocated a caste system for the country and who reportedly described average people as "dogs and pigs".
BTS released the song amid the 2016 South Korean political scandal that resulted in the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye.
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