BTS This Week – Week Ending 21 July 2019

Intro Song: Cypher 4

Featured image by Photo by Sunyu Kim on Unsplash

On this week’s show:

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News
- The break has officially started
- High-profile US media outlets fall down the rabbit hole
- BTS is one of TIME’s most influential people on the Internet
- Pre-sales start for Mattel dolls and UNO game
Next Week
Last Word – Don’t go crazy during the break

Data Drop

Run BTS ep 80

Billboard 200 album chart

BTS’s ‘Love Yourself: Answer’ Has Spent More Time On The Billboard 200 Than Any Other K-Pop Album In History (Forbes)

Billboard Artist 100

Billboard Social 50

Billboard World Albums

Billboard World Digital Song Sales

BTS Has Landed Five No. 1 Hits On This Chart In 2019, The Most In A Single Year For The Group (Forbes)

BTS Is The First Group To Reach This Incredible Milestone On One Of Billboard’s World Charts (Forbes)

Billboard Soundtracks

Billboard Canadian Hot 100 singles chart

Billboard Canadian Albums

Billboard Japan Hot 100 singles chart

UK Albums

Amazon US Bestsellers

Amazon US Bestsellers of 2019 (So Far)

Amazon US Soundtrack New Releases

Spotify Global 200 weekly

Spotify Japan 200 weekly

Hope World – J-Hope (Spotify)

BTS occupies 41,9% of total album sales of top 100 Kpop artists (Vlive)

방탄소년단 ‘러브 유어셀프 인 서울’ 실황, 시청률 3.1% 돌파 (Newsen)

News

How boy band BTS went from South Korean idols to international superstars (CNBC)

I Wasn’t a Fan of BTS. And Then I Was. (The Atlantic)

At 24, BTS’ RM Is a K-Pop Icon — and Hip-Hop Legend (DJBOOTH)

The Friends Who Listen to BTS Together Stay Together (The Atlantic)

The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet (TIME)

Pre-Sale Opens For Mattel’s New BTS Dolls, UNO Card Game (Billboard)

BTS: The Review by Youngdae Kim and H.J. Chung (Amazon)

Next Week

Nothing scheduled for the rest of July and beginning of August. The next public appearance will be August 11 at the Lotte Duty Free Family Festival Concert.