Who was the biggest korean artist of the 2010's decade?

Quote from blueaqua

Since the OP is asking who is the biggest in general (overall), then the only answer should be BTS. If we are talking about just in Korea, I can see why people would say IU since she has been popular since her breakthrough in 2010 (digitals). However, I would say based on who has had the biggest impact in their country, then BTS. They're the only artists that was awarded the order of cultural merit by the president and they have won "lifetime achievement" awards and swept all of the daesangs 5 different times at award shows. They also have been voted by the #1 singer by both entertainment figures and the GP (Gallup) for 3 years in a row which no other singer has this past decade.

This!

in Korea? IU probably

WW? BTS

In Korea, it's the artist that currently has six songs in melon 24h top 10, a total of sixteen in top 100. The same artist that has a total of 24 number #1 songs in the last decade. None else is even remotely close.

Internationally it's BTS ofc, none else is close there either.

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Chartmasters did a decade ranking in the beginning of 2020 for 2010s and BTS ranked 9th. Its insane considering they only started to become really huge in 2017, so they achieved it based in 3 years.

"K-Pop monsters BTS came out of nowhere to be responsible of what may be the biggest shocker in the history of the music industry.

Who would have expected in 2010 that a Korean act would belong to the 10 highest selling artists of the decade in the World?

They showed such an insane strength during the last years of the decade that their 9th place and 43.0 million sales come almost as no surprise.

As recently as 3 years ago though their sales wouldn’t have put them in the top 100 of the decade."

https://chartmasters.org/2020/…ing-artists-of-the-2010s/

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They are 8th* now. My post is from chartmasters