Evaluation of BTS Success in Foreign Famous Media and Music Media

Overseas media are also offering a series of comments, showing great interest in the success of the group BTS.

Forbes of the United States reported that "The top spot of the Billboards main album chart of 'Love Yourself: Gypsy Anthology' is meaningful not only for BTS and Korean music but also for the entire pop music industry in the 2010s."

Rolling Stone, a U.S. music magazine, also said in a column titled How BTS Are Breaking K-Pop's Biggest Taboos on the 30th, "How BTS is breaking the biggest taboos of K-pop," and it became a differentiation factor for K-pop as it expressed freshness in resisting customs, saying taboos in Korean society, including the rights of sex minorities, mental health problems, and pressure on success, from its debut. “We also analyzed the success factors.”

Love Yourself: Anthur is the final version of the Love Your Self series, which BTS has been in for two and a half years since March 2016, and contains a total of 25 songs, including seven new songs, even though it is a repackaged album. This series follows the flow of emotions that the main songs of the album are organically connected to music, story, and lyrics as a theme, and seek self from encounter and love. In doing so, I have conveyed the message that 'loving myself is true love'.

Meanwhile, the group BTS has rewritten K-pop history once again: BTS topped the Billboards 200, the main album chart in the United States.

Billboards of the United States on the 2nd (local time) is the second Billboards 200 to be the BTS, Love Yourself: Anser (BTS Scores Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Love Yourself: Answer') headlined.

Billboards said that "BTS' Love Your Self album Anthur" ranked # 1 on the Billboards 200, which is the group's second top album since its release album Love Your Self before the year 2018." Billboards said, "BTS is not only the only K-pop singer to win the Billboards, but also the first Korean to have two first albums."

BTS also became the first singer to hit the top of the Billboards 200 in two consecutive years, recorded in non-English lyrics in American pop history.

According to Nielsen Music, the new album, the third in the Love Yourself series, reached number one with an album figure of 185,000 in the week to August 30, of which 141,000 were recorded as real album sales.

BTS also set the Korean group's highest record on the UK (UK) official single chart, which is called Billboards and the two major pop charts. According to the UK Official Singles Chart on the 31st, the title song Idol (IDOL) of Love Yourself Resolution Anser was ranked 21st on this chart. This is the first time that the K-pop group has entered the top 40, surpassing its own record (42nd place) set as FAKE LOVE in May.