Every #1 by Asian Acts in HISTORY on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart:
#1 Sukiyaki (1963)
#1 #BTS Dynamite (2020)
#1 #BTS Life Goes On (2020)
#1 #BTS Butter (2021)
#1 #BTS Permission To Dance (2021)
#1 #BTS My Universe (2021)
#1 #BTS Savage Love Remix (2021)
#1 #JIMIN Like Crazy (2023)
#1 #JUNGKOOK SEVEN (2023)
#1 #BTS SWIM (2026) [NEW]
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
BTS RETURN OF THE KING
BTS RECORD SETTERS
BTS HISTORY MAKERS
#BTS_ARIRANG #BTS_SWIM #BTSCOMEBACK2026 #KEEPSWIMMING #ARIRANG_BTS #BTSTHERETURN
If you want them to beat expectations for Week 2:
-Buy the remixes
-Buy the visualizers
-Then buy them again on Qobuz & Amazon
-Go check Targets for restocks of CDs and buy cassettes
-Keep streaming AM, Spot, Pandora, Tidal
BTS only has ARMY behind them in this fight.
🚨ARIRANG/SWIM UPDATE🚨
ARMY, we're so close. We have about 34 hours left to go as hard as we can! Our seven deserve it all. Please help us meet our goal.
💰2770/3000
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Interesting coincidence.
In the Oldboy movie the main character is imprisoned for 15 years and then released randomly with a phone, new suit and some money. He has 5 days to discover who did it and why and try to take revenge.
In the 2.0 MV BTS also uses 5 main background scenes. Similarly with the movie: the hallway fight scene, the bathroom scene(confinment?), changing clothes, the choice to use light in a way that feels unstable or deliberately harsh etc.
Fun Fact: The 2.0 MV is a nod to OldBoy, a 2003 Korean Revenge Drama (worth the watch, it's so good), directed by Park Chan-Wook (who BTS thanks in the music video credits).
Thank you for this sara. Yall and the translator armys are the reason even we i-armys feel so much connected. Because of yall we get an opportunity to dive deeper into this. I'm so happy to know this.
From the documentary, BTS: The Return
🐨 Arirang is music filled with han (한)
Since long ago, people tried to overcome that han (한) through heung (흥);
they tried to overcome that longing by singing Arirang
As Koreans
we wondered whether bringing in Arirang
a piece of gugak (traditional Korean music)
might be a bit too 1 dimensional
That was our thought at first
but when we reflected on it
through the great (album) title of Arirang itself
perhaps the message we wanted to convey
had already naturally blended into it
Since we had already come that far
we felt it was right not to be ambiguous anymore
and to go all the way
—
Let’s break that down:
한이 담긴 음악이고
(Arirang) is music filled with 한 (han)
예전부터 그 한을 흥으로 이겨 내고자 할 때
Since long ago, people tried to overcome that 한 (han) through 흥 (heung)
‘아리랑’을 부르면서
by singing Arirang
저희는 한국인으로서
As Koreans
‘아리랑’ 국악을 가져오는 게 좀 너무
bringing in “Arirang,” this piece of gugak, felt a bit too
1차원적이지 않나?
dimensional, didn’t it?
그런 생각을 했는데
That was what we thought but
생각해 보니까 이미 ‘아리랑’이라는 그 큰
when we thought about it, already that large thing called Arirang
타이틀을 통해서
through that title
저희가 전달하고자 하는 메시지가
the message we wanted to convey
자연스럽게
naturally
녹아들지 않았을까
might already have melted in
이왕 그렇게 온 이상 애매하게 이제 굴지 않고
Since we had already come that far, rather than acting ambiguously now,
멀리 가는 게 맞다는 생각을 했었어요
we thought it was right to go further