[INFO] #BTS along with Shakira and Madonna will perform at the first FIFA World Cup Final halftime show THIS MONTH! ⚽️
🇺🇸July 19 at 3PM ET | 🇰🇷July 20 at 4AM KST
#BTSXWorldCup2026
[NEWS] #BTS' ARIRANG Achievements in a new BIG HIT press release, citing Luminate data! 🏆
➡️#BTS_ARIRANG recorded 3.8 billion global streams across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music during its first eight weeks (March 20–May 14, 2026).
➡️ BTS Group’s entire catalog surpassed 5.3 billion streams during the same period.
➡️This performance significantly exceeded the 3.3 billion average first-eight-week streams of other major global pop album releases.
➡️ BTS Global balanced across all regions, with Latin America leading at 27%, followed by Northeast Asia (17%), North America (14%), Southeast Asia (13%), and Europe (12%).
➡️ On Spotify, “SWIM” surpassed 500 million streams, becoming the first song released in 2026 to reach that milestone. All 14 tracks on the album exceeded 100 million streams, while “Body to Body” and “Hooligan” each passed 200 million.
➡️BTS also led U.S. physical album sales, selling 810,000 units (CDs and vinyl), nearly four times more than the No. 2 and No. 3 artists combined.
GET THEM! SUE THEM!
Hello. This is BIGHIT MUSIC. We are continuously taking legal action against criminal acts that infringe upon BTS’s rights and interests, including defamation, insults, sexual harassment, and malicious slander. We would like to provide an update on the major legal actions taken as of the second quarter of 2026. 1. Comprehensive Monitoring and Application of a Zero-Tolerance Policy Toward Malicious Posts Through our own monitoring system and the valuable reports submitted by fans, we are collecting evidence in real time of malicious posts about the artists posted on major online communities. In accordance with these efforts, one individual—who repeatedly posted entirely baseless and fabricated information across various online platforms to disparage our artists—had charges of both defamation via false information and criminal insult sustained. This perpetrator has subsequently received a deferred prosecution disposition, which is contingent upon their successful completion of a mandatory educational program. During this quarter, we also filed complaints against the authors of malicious posts related to BTS on domestic communities (TheQoo, Instiz, Naver, Daum (Women’s Generation, Jjukbbang, Souldresser, etc.), Nate, Dmitory, numerous galleries on DC Inside including the BTS, Male Celebrity, and Korean Entertainment galleries, Ilgan Best, FMKorea, and others), music sites (Melon, Bugs Music, Genie Music, and others), and overseas social media channels (Threads, X, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, and others). Furthermore, we wish to inform you that in addition to our regular filing cycles, we have initiated additional ongoing complaint procedures. In particular, we are relentlessly tracking down and holding legally accountable, without exception, those responsible for malicious hate speech intended to evade punishment behind anonymity and fake news that is systematically promoted. We also wish to inform you that we are tracking and responding to acts involving the leaking and distribution of content that has not been made public. Even in cases where individuals attempt to destroy evidence by deleting posts after publishing them, all such cases are included as subjects of complaints without exception based on our real-time evidence collection system. We will take the strongest possible legal measures, without any settlement or leniency, against all acts that inflict mental suffering on our artists. 2. Guilty Verdict for Crimes Involving Trespassing at an Artist’s Residence and Stalking With regard to the crime involving the invasion of our artists’ privacy, which was a matter of great concern for fans, we would like to share the trial result of the case announced in the first quarter (charges of violating the Stalking Punishment Act and trespassing). An arrest warrant was issued for the defendant who trespassed at an artist’s residence and repeatedly engaged in stalking behavior. The defendant underwent a criminal trial while being detained in a detention center for approximately three months, and the court, recognizing the seriousness of the offense, sentenced the defendant to one year of imprisonment with a two-year suspended sentence. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy without leniency toward offenders targeting our artists, and this applies equally to both Korean nationals and foreign nationals. If a foreign national receives criminal punishment for trespassing and stalking crimes, the offender may be forcibly deported to their home country and may be subject to a ban on entering South Korea. Loitering around an artist’s residence, watching and waiting for the artist, or leaving gifts behind are not harmless expressions of interest but manifest criminal offenses. We wish to inform you that we will continue to take strong legal actions, including immediate reports to the police, against all unlawful approaches made under the pretext of conveying personal feelings to our artists.