Published 18:48 IST, January 11th 2021
BTS' 'Map of The Soul: 7' becomes the bestselling physical album of 2020 in the U.S.A.
With multiple hits and chart-toppers, famous k-pop boy-band BTS achieved a greater height recently as it became USA's bestselling physical album of 2020.
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Popular South Korean boy band BTS, also kwn as Bangtan Boys, has been at centre of people's attention for longest duration of time w. Releasing super-hit songs such as Blood Sweat & Tears, Dynamite, More Dreams, Fake Love and many more, boy band has created a massive community of fans and followers of ir music throughout world. And recently, BTS' Map of Soul: 7 album was declared as bestselling physical album in United States for year 2020.
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Map of Soul: 7 sales
septet has produced countless popular hits when it comes to k-pop and hip hop genres of music. Map of Soul: 7 full album, which was ir fourth full album, released in February of last year. It recently reached a total count of 646,000 of its physical album sales in United States of America. An annual year-end report, compiled by MRC Data in collaboration with Billboard, states that boy band's physical album h said number of sales between time period of January 1 and December 31, 2020.
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Ar one of BTS' extremely popular album BE ranked fifth on same chart, with a total sales of 252,000 in report. A comment in report spoke about how boy band's massive fan-base grew even more this past year. band also scored its first three Hot 100 . 1 singles in 2020 in a span of just three months, which last happened with Beatles in 1964.
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2020 was a huge year for widely-loved boy-band of seven members as y t only delivered chart-toppers but also me it to Billboard Hot 100 chart multiple times. In United States of America, Grammy-minated track Dynamite by BTS also became top-selling digital song of 2020. song accounted for having over 1.26 million downlos, which was double number of downlos of Blinding Lights by Weeknd.
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report also mentioned that famous k-pop girl-band BLACKPINK me its mark on charts in 2020. ir achievements proved that success of Korean pop music in mainstream market was t restricted to just male-dominated performances anymore. It also emphasised on how well genre h succeeded at making its place amongst American listeners based on performances of bands like BTS, TWICE, NCT, SuperM, and BLACKPINK.
18:48 IST, January 11th 2021