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After debuting in 2013 with their single album 2 ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ 4 ๐๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ, BTS released their first Korean-language studio album, ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ & ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ, and Japanese-language studio album, ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ฑ, in 2014. The group's second Korean studio album, ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด (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 '๐๐๐ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ', as well as the first Korean act to top the US Billboard 200 chart with their studio album ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง: ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ (2018). BTS also became the fastest group since The Beatles to earn four US number-one albums, doing so in less than two years. ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง: ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ (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 Global 200 and US Billboard Hot 100 with their single '๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ' and the remix of '๐๐ข๐ท๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ (๐๐ข๐น๐ฆ๐ฅ โ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต)'.
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 ๐๐ข๐ฑ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ: 7. BTS was ranked at number 45 on Billboard's Top Touring Artists of the 2010s, the only non-English speaking act on the list. During their Love Yourself World Tour, BTS becsme 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 Time'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 (2017โ2019) 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.
Following the establishment of their Love Myself anti-violence campaign in partnership with UNICEF, BTS addressed the United Nations 73rd and 75th General Assemblies and became the youngest ever recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit from the President of South Korea due to their contributions in spreading Korean culture and language.