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# BTS Is First K-pop Band To Top Billboard Hot 200
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bts-is-first-k-pop-band-to-top-billboard-hot-200/
- Published: 2018-05-29T08:57:25.000Z
- Updated: 2018-05-29T08:57:25.000Z
- Description: South Korean boy band BTS has become the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 chart following the release of their new album, Love Yourself: Tear.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Magazine, Donald Trump, K-Pop, Kim Jong-un, Korean Peninsula, Moon Jae-in, North Korea, Post Malone, President of South Korea, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:05

[![image from celebrityaccess.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20224e03d6616200d-200wi "image from celebrityaccess.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20224e03d6616200d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)South Korean boy band BTS has become the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 chart following the release of their new album, *Love Yourself: Tear.* The album, which was released May 18 and sold 135,000 copies in its first week, marks the second-biggest debut of the year trailing just behind Migos’ *Culture II,* and is also the first foreign-language album to top the Billboard 200 in over 12 years.In 2017, BTS cracked the Billboard Top Ten with their previous album *Love Yourself: Her.* Now, not only has the group bumped Post Malone’s *Beerbongs and Bentleys* from the No. 1 spot, they’ve beat out artists like Cardi B, J. Cole, and Playboi Carti too.Though K-pop only began to cross-over into the North American market in recent years, the genre first emerged in South Korea in the early 1990s and has since developed a devout following across Asia and throughout the world.In a statement posted to the group’s Twitter account, BTS member Kim Seok-jin said: “No. 1 on the Billboard 200.. Thank you so much for letting us see such a good news as soon as we woke up. It’s amazing and so surreal. Thank you to all who have listened to our music! We will continue to work hard!”*photo: 뉴스인스타 (NewsInStar) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJ7u0jLYUg) \[[CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0?ref=hypebot.com)\], [via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%EB%B0%A9%ED%83%84%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84%EB%8B%A8%28BTS%29%5F180110%5F%EC%A0%9C%5F32%ED%9A%8C%5F%EA%B3%A8%EB%93%A0%EB%94%94%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC.png?ref=hypebot.com)*– [CelebrityAccess](http://celebrityaccess.com/?ref=hypebot.com)

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