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On Twitter, BTS fans quickly renamed the day #FakeLoveFriday, a nod to the boy band’s newest single, “Fake Love ”. On Friday, May 18, 2018, South Korean K-pop group BTS unveiled their long-awaited third studio album, Love Yourself: Tear. Plus, rather than taking the One Direction approach of having accounts for each member, BTS run only one group account on each platform, giving them ultimate power to dominate the web. Their label was the first to embrace the messy, unvarnished nature of social media, allowing the band to reveal more of their real personalities. BTS was the first band to include songs about loneliness and gender politics. A serendipitous moment! The label spotted a market for a slightly more thoughtful tone within the intensely energetic world of K-pop. But BTS, which translates as Bulletproof Boy Scouts, and who are also known as Bangtan Boys, were the accidental product of a smaller independent record label, Big Hit Entertainment. The pop industry is a tightly controlled big-money game in South Korea. The BTS fans, known as the Army (“adorable representative MCs for youth”), proved their point by tweeting the hashtag #BTSBBMAS more than 300 million times. As Kim Nam-joon (AKA RM) took to the stage to collect their Billboard Music Awards for “Top Social Artist” on Sunday, May 20, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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The band also has 8 million YouTube subscribers and 6.5 million fans on Facebook. ARMIES OUT THERE!!!!!!īTS is the most-retweeted band on Twitter in 2018, with 14.9 million followers. K-pop treats a song as just one of several interlocking aesthetic parts, which typically include choreography, a music video, novella-thick liner notes, and an overarching “concept” that brings it all together. 1 on the iTunes albums chart in more than 65 regions including Hong Kong, the United States, Canada, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over the weekend of May 18, 2018, Love Yourself: Tear soared to No.Pre-sales of BTS' latest album, Love Yourself: Tear, were reportedly close to 1.5 million copies.