March 11, 2021
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The South Korean boy band BTS is continuing its meteoric rise in the music industry garnering its first ever Grammy nomination this year, as well as the first nomination for K-pop.
Shin Dong Kim, mass communications professor at Hallym University: And there has been some attention on the fandom, the peculiar aspect of K-pop fandom, for example, Army for BTS…
But BTS and K-pop didn t come out of nowhere. K-pop has been steadily growing its global presence dubbed Hallyu, or the Korean Wave by followers and other groups to pave the way for BTS include the Wonder Girls, Twice, Big Bang and PSY.
BTS becomes first Asian act to win IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award; Taylor Swift & Drake follow
After placing #2 and #7 in 2018 and 2019, BTS were crowned as the winners of 2020’s IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award. Check out the Top 10 list below. Written By
Pinkvilla Desk 1390614 reads Mumbai Updated: March 6, 2021 03:25 pm BTS becomes first Asian act to win IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award; Taylor Swift & Drake follow
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Breaking and making records is in BTS DNA and with 2020 being as monumental as it was for the South Korean septet, it comes as no surprise that RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook were announced as the winners of 2020’s IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award. For the unversed, IFPI s (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) prestigious honour is calculated on the basis of an artist or group s worldwide performance across d