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After debuting in 2013 with their single album 2 Cool 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭 4 Skool𝘚𝘬𝘰𝘰𝘭, BTS released their first Korean-language studio album, Dark 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 & Wild𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥, and Japanese-language studio album, Wake Up𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘜𝘱, in 2014. The group's second Korean studio album, Wings 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 (2016), was their first to sell one million copies in South Korea. By 2017, BTS crossed into the global music market, leading the Korean Wave into the United States and breaking numerous sales records. They became the first Korean group to receive a certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for their single "Mic Drop", as well as the first Korean act to top the US Billboard 200 chart with their studio album Love Yourself𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: Tear 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳 (2018). BTS also became the fastest group since The Beatles to earn four US number-one albums, doing so in less than two years. Love Yourself𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: Answer 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 (2018) was the first Korean album certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2020, BTS became the first all-South Korean act to reach number one on the Billboard 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 Global 200 and US Billboard 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 Hot 100 with their single "Dynamite" and remix of "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)".

Having sold over 20 million albums on the Gaon Music Chart, BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history and holds the best-selling album in South Korea with Map of the Soul𝘔𝘢𝘱 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭: 7.. BTS was ranked at number 45 on Billboard𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥's Top Touring Artists of the 2010s, the only non-English speaking act on the list. During their Love Yourself World Tour, BTS became the first Asian and first non-English speaking act to headline and sell out Wembley Stadium and broke the record for the single highest-grossing engagement in Rose Bowl Stadium history. Featured on Time𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦's international cover as "Next Generation Leaders", BTS has also appeared in the magazine's lists of the 25 most influential people on the internet (2017–2019) and the 100 most influential people in the world (2019), where they were dubbed "Princes of Pop". Forbes Korea named BTS the most influential celebrities of Korea in 2018 and 2020, and BTS ranked 43rd in the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2019) as one of the world's top-earning celebrities. As of 2019, BTS is purportedly worth more than $4.65 billion to South Korea's economy each year, or 0.3 percent of the country's GDP. They attract one in every 13 foreign tourists that visited South Korea and were cited as one of the key acts in boosting global music sales to $19 billion in 2018.