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BTS has received many awards and honors, including 24 33 Mnet Asian Music Awards, 23 29 Melon Music Awards, 20 Golden Disc Awards, 14 Seoul Music Awards, 13 Gaon Chart Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 4 Korean 6 American Music Awards, 4 American Korean Music Awards, and 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 𝘓𝘶𝘷' and three Silver album certifications for 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 and 𝘔𝘢𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭: 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢. 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. On November 7, 2019, BTS became the first K-Pop act to remain on the Billboard 200 for a whole year. '𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳' reentered Billboard's main albums chart on Monday November 4 (No. 165), and as of November 2019, has remained on the charts for 52 non-consecutive weeks, making it the first and currently only K-pop album to do so. In October 2020, BTS topped the Billboard Artist 100 for an 11th non-consecutive week, extending their record for the most weeks spent at number one on the chart among all duos and groups.