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BTS has received many awards and honors, including 24 Mnet Asian Music Awards, 23 Melon Music Awards, 20 Golden Disc Awards, 14 Seoul Music Awards, 13 Gaon Chart Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 4 Korean Music Awards, 4 American Music Awards, 6 MTV Video Music Awards and 5 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Having sold over 20.3 million albums on the Gaon Music Chart, BTS are the best-selling artist in South Korean history, surpassing Shin Seung-hun's record of 17 million albums. In South Korea, BTS hold four Multi-Million albums and three Platinum streaming singles. As the first Korean group to receive an RIAA certification, BTS has one Platinum album, three Platinum singles, two Gold singles, and one Gold album in the United States. In Japan, BTS is the first male foreign act to receive a Million certification for a single; they also have two Multi-Platinum singles, one Multi-Platinum album, one Platinum album and four Gold albums. BTS are also the first Korean group to receive certifications in the United Kingdom, with one Silver single certification for 'Boy With Luvππ°πΊ ππͺπ΅π© ππΆπ·' and three Silver album certifications for ππ°π·π¦ π π°πΆπ³π΄π¦ππ§: ππ¦π’π³, ππ°π·π¦ π π°πΆπ³π΄π¦ππ§: ππ―π΄πΈπ¦π³ and ππ’π± π°π§ π΅π©π¦ ππ°πΆπ: ππ¦π³π΄π°π―π’.
BTS have a large social influence and as of 2020, have attained fourteen Guinness World Records, including the world record for most Twitter engagements. To date, they have spent 203 weeks at number one on the Billboard Social 50 chart. In October 2018, BTS was awarded a fifth-class Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit from the President of South Korea for their contributions in spreading Korean culture and language. In 2019, members of BTS were invited to become members of the Recording Academy in honor of their contributions to music and as part of a push to help diversify Grammy Award voters.