📊BTS has entered the Top 30 best selling musical act of ALL TIME.
Rising to #28(+10) since the last I updated in sept. 2025.
We are aiming to finish the year in Top 25🔥
BTS debuts the entirety of their new album ‘ARIRANG’ on the Global Spotify chart:
#1. SWIM — 14.64M
#2. Body to Body — 11.18M
#3. Hooligan — 8.73M
#4. FYA — 8.07M
#5. Aliens — 7.75M
#6. 2.0 — 7.38M
#7. Merry Go Round — 7.23M
#8. NORMAL — 7.15M
#9. Like Animals — 6.82M
#10. they don’t know ’bout us — 6.72M
#11. No. 29 — 6.5M
#12. One More Night — 6.13M
#13. Please — 5.92M
#14. Into the Sun — 5.72M
The New York Times discusses BTS withdrawing from Grammy consideration:
"The largest Asian entertainment companies, with lots of new acts to promote, may not want to fight that system on principle. But BTS, possibly the biggest act in the world since Jackson, is perhaps the only Korean recording act with the freedom and leverage to spark a reckoning.
So will this be a moment where artists and entrepreneurs conspire to force the major institutions of this business to break its addiction to racism dressed up as demography?
Every artist, whether BTS or Bad Bunny, deserves access to the largest market without being filtered out or qualified."
Thought about this again after hearing about Nas at MetLife tonight. There’s something to me about the boys - and specifically Namjoon - being watched over by some of music’s greatest giants, their musical predecessors, right when they are under history’s watchful eye.
Namjoon giving shoutout to Nas who is at the concert today !!!
"Personally I wanted to give shout out to the artist who had dominated my whole teenage life. Here in New York Big Nas is here tonight."
"it is really wonderful feeling to be able to perform in infront of your teenage idol"