BTS "DNA" Debuts At No.85 On Billboard Hot 100!

I had to double check my watch

How far they've come

People can deny it all they want, but this is such a huge moment not just for BTS, but for KPOP in general like before this no one would think that KPOP songs would appear on the Hot 100

Quote from icyruios

People can deny it all they want, but this is such a huge moment not just for BTS, but for KPOP in general like before this no one would think that KPOP songs would appear on the Hot 100

I disagree I think people thought it was always possible because groups came close, I think the streaming era helped KPOP a lot though.

Quote from Flowercrew

How far they've come

According to xenophobic authentic stans, they sold their soul to chart with Koreans songs in 2017.

But it's funny because even before the authentic stans or the leftovers that moved on to other groups that now has more English songs than BTS, that this rhetoric was still prevalent in 2017 and 2018 with no daesang no opinions stans too. Plus can't forget the whole of kpop stans kumbayaing together about how DNA, Fake Love, IDOL and BWL made BTS, a group that debuted as a hip-hop group, which last I check is very much my culture/the west, was seeking western validation.

And I will never forget the think pieces and articles of people clowning 2nd gen for flopping with seeking success in the west only for the 720 degree switch up once BTS started proven them wrong. Now every company has annoyingly mediaplayed their groups as the next BTS while their stans continue to pretend BTS did nothing as their favs copy every move BTS made.

Amazing. It’s like the Beatles charting in the US with I Want To Hold Your Hand

And they rose the next week