According to the head of economic development at Tourism Economics, @BTS_twt will "easily compare [to] or even exceed FIFA's economic impact just on average spending" at their MetLife Stadium shows.
In Las Vegas, BTS' shows generated an estimated $340M in economic activity.
music can be heard and loved for its own sake, rather than being distinguished by region or language!! @RecordingAcad
ART HAS NO ALIENS
#ArtHasNoAliens
Nah grannys posted a video bout the the "globalisation" of asian pop music without even mentioning the way pavers BTS
Not only did they turn off the comments but ended up deleting it lmaooo they scared for their lives😭
“Aliens” de #BTS es #1 en audios tendencia Instagram reels México 🇲🇽
Es el audio más utilizado en el país durante los últimos 3 días.
https://t.co/oCWIwEjdCe
GRAMMYS DELETED THEIR REEL ABOUT THE BEST ASIAN CATEGORY FROM THEIR PAGE AFTER RESTRICTING THE COMMENTS FIRST, AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN MENTION BTS DESPITE THEM BEING PIONEERS LMAO
🔗 https://t.co/llIvC61GKF
BTS' decision indicates their unwillingness to be marginalized & funneled into a niche category that's widely speculated to have been created as a way to deal with the popularity of K-pop without rewarding the artists in more equitable general fields.
https://t.co/9mOZ2OYPyi
BTS' impact is actually INSANE one move and suddenly the entire internet, every headline and every media outlet is talking GRAMMYs getting their biggest coverage in years off BTS alone is sending me LMAO
‘ARIRANG’ by BTS becomes the fastest album in history to have all tracks surpass 200 MILLION streams each on Spotify.
The record was previously held by Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’.
"Never interrupt your opponent when they're busy undermining their own credibility."
😂 ARMY watching Grammy people implode in real time is honestly entertaining AF...
The Mona Lisa with a moustache isn’t vandalism — it’s L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp’s way of asking whether we admire art for what it is or for what we’ve been told it represents.
Leave it to Namjoon to post a century-old artwork that still asks uncomfortable questions about authority, originality, and the stories we choose to believe.
He is soo funny 😭😂
ARIRANG (132 days) becomes the Fastest Album in Spotify history to have all Songs reaching 200 Million streams on Spotify, surpassing The Life of a Show Girl (260 days)
BTS didn't refuse in an ordinary year. They refused in the year the Recording Academy was supposed to present Disney with the Grammys' global future.
"The best is yet to come," Harvey Mason jr. said in May 2026 as the Academy unveiled the first Grammys broadcast of its new Disney era. The ten-year deal had been announced in October 2024 and was due to begin in 2027. In July 2026, BTS declined to submit their music for the first ceremony under that deal.
The Academy had sold Disney a decade-long global media product. BTS exposed its limits before the first broadcast.
👀 Namjoon just posted Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q., in his IG Stories, now displayed at MoMA NY until August 22, must have visited! But I think there’s more to this than a museum photo 🤭
Backstory: Duchamp took a cheap postcard of the Mona Lisa and drew a mustache on it. He pioneered the idea of the “Readymade”, taking an ordinary object and simply designating it as art. Duchamp’s message? Art isn’t defined by a manual, canvas, or a museum wall. He believed it lives in the concept, the intention, and the relationship with the audience.
Bringing it back to the present… who comes to mind as an artist who needs no institutional validation? their art, and the way it moves millions, already speaks for itself? 🫶