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🔥 The List of “Firsts” Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of BTS’ List of “Firsts”. If you still haven’t checked Part 1 yet then go here.

As we continue forward, things get very interesting for BTS as we are blessed with more mind blowing “First” records via MOTS: 7, BE, Dynamite etc. Reading all these achievements below, it solidifies the fact that BTS is the True Top Global Artist of the world competing with real global artists, western artists and local artists from music markets which are hard to crack. People think that a group goes stagnant when you reach 7-8 years, but this is not the case for BTS. They are still growing across the world and keep gaining new fans at an exponential rate. The sky is the limit for BTS as they got a lot of areas to explore and achieve. BTS showed that they are not going anywhere as True Global Artists never go stagnant.

I only added the main “First” records. Enjoy!

7 Era

Date: February 21, 2020 (BTS: 6 Years Old)

First non-English Act to earn a #1 album in the Top 10 largest music markets of the world with MOTS: 7.

First Korean Album to sell over 4M physical copies.

First Album to surpass 3M sales on Hanteo.

First non-English-language to enter the Top 5 of Hot 100 for a Duo/Group in the 21st century (overall since "Macarena" in 1996).

First Korean Group to enter/First Korean Act to debut in the top 5 of Hot 100 with “ON”.

First Asian Act to chart 3 songs simultaneously in the Hot 100 (ON, My Time, Filter).

First Asian Act to reach a total of 10 entries in Hot 100.

First Asian Act to get #1 in the album charts of France, Germany, Belgium (Flanders), Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Portugal and Netherlands with MOTS: 7.

First Korean Group to enter the Official Singles Charts Top 100 of France; Top 40 of Germany; Top 10 of Scotland with ON.

First Korean Group to get #1 in the UK Singles iTunes with Black Swan.

First Asian Act to chart at #1 in the Billboard Tastemakers Albums with MOTS: 7.

First Asian Act to go #1 in the Daily Most Streamed Artists on Spotify and stayed #1 for a week.

First Asian Act to go #1 in the US Top Album Sales 4 times.

First Act to occupy the Top 15 World Digital Song Sales for the 2nd time.

First Act to occupy 21 of the 25 spots on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart with every spot from #1 to #18 straight.

First Asian Act to spend 1 year in the BB Top Album Sales with 4 albums.

First Act to have 2 -> 6 songs reach with 100 #1’s in iTunes Singles history.

First Asian Act to be ranked #1 in the 'Top Rank Global Sustainable Future Leaders' for United Nations’ SDG for the 2nd time.

First Musicians to be awarded the “General James A. Van Fleet Award” by “The Korea Society”.

First Asian Group and Korean Act to be awarded the “Asia Game Changers Award” by “The Asia Society’.

First non-English Act to perform at the Grand Central Terminal, NYC.

First non-English Act to appear in the popular “Carpool Karaoke” show.

First Act to have every single track of an album reach #1 on iTunes in a country worldwide with MOTS: 7.

First Group in iTunes history to reach #1 in 100 countries with both a song and album.

First Act to have 2 → 4 albums with all tracks go #1 on iTunes in a country.

First Act to have 2 → 4 songs to reach 100 #1's in iTunes Singles Chart.

First Album to chart at #1 for 6 → 8 months on the MelOn Album Chart with MOTS: 7.

First Korean Act to grace with their Cover Photos and Cover Story in the Wall Street journal (WSJ) Magazine’s November issue.

First Korean Act to be awarded the WSJ Magazine’s 2020 “Music Innovator Award”.

First Korean Act to have their cover photo, photo-shoot, cover story, and interview on the American edition of Esquire for their Winter Cover.

First Group to have 20 songs surpass 1M unique listeners on Genie.

First Foreign Act of the 21st century (overall since Michael Jackson in 1984) to top the Oricon’s mid-year Album Sales Chart.

First Korean Album to go Platinum in Japan (RIAJ) with MOTS: 7.

First Japanese song by a Korean Act to get a RIAJ streaming certification.

First Korean OST Album to spend 1 year in the BB World Albums Chart.

First Korean Act to have their first Variety Cover Photo and Story.

First Korean Act to give a speech at the YouTube’s “Dear Class of 2020” Global Ceremony.

First Act to attend and give speech for the first "National Youth Day" ceremony at the Presidential Blue House.

First Act to spend four total years at #1 on the Social 50 chart.

First Act to earn 100 charting songs in World Digital Song Sales chart history.

First Japanese song to debut straight to #1 in the US iTunes (Stay Gold).

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7 Era