Published 14:19 IST, August 7th 2020

BTS is the only Korean act to break its own Guinness Records to attain bestselling album

BTS is on a record-breaking spree breaking its own record to become the only Korean artist with bestselling albums. Read details of the feat.

Reported by: Shrishaila Bhandary
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BTS went on to break its own Guinness World Records to win bestselling album title in South Korea. It is only K-pop act to breaks its own sale records. This feat was achieved by seven-member band, Min Yoongi, Kim Seok Jin, Jung Hoseok, Kim Namjoon, Kim Taehyung, Park Jimin, and Jeon Jungkook starring album Map of Soul:7.

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BTS' Map of Soul:7 makes and breaks its own record 

BTS' Map of Soul:7 released back in February and overtook its own past release Map of Soul: Persona to achieve new record. Both albums have 17-20 songs ranging from pop, R&B, and hip-hop versions. Map of Soul:7 has nineteen tracks and ar special edition with Australian singer and song writer’s feature with ON and MV songs like Black Swan. According to reports, BTS' Map of Soul:7 has sold over 4,265,617 copies and has me it bestselling Korean act. In less than six hours of release of BTS' Map of Soul:7, 2.65 million sales were achieved by album of BTS.

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Or BTS' records 

seven-member boy band, BTS’ Map of Soul:7 set a record opening on US Billboard 200 followed by UK’s album chart. BTS’ Guinness World Records feat comes after less than a month’s time since ir record-breaking Live concert that is Bang Bang Con: Live. It h most streamers ever attending a music event live.

BTS t only holds multiple Guinness World Records but has titles like first K-pop act to achieve number one position chart for US Album Chart, followed by having maximum Twitter engments. band reportedly holds a number of YouTube records in terms of views and streaming for ir MV’s Boy With Luv and Idol. MV's were one of most-watched videos of band. 

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fandom of band, that is BTS Army, also helped group achieve  most used hashtag in under 24 hours with tag #TwitterBestFandom. This was in March 2019, when band h achieved 60,055,339 tweets, as per reports. When band first me its debut on TikTok, it took only 31 minutes for band to reach one million followers on short video sharing platform.

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A still of all BTS' members 

 

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14:18 IST, August 7th 2020