But seriously, though, why ARMYs? Hahaha, kidding aside, we have personal preferences, so that’s fine-1/3 of BTS’ rap line and probably the member who loves music the most. We did quite expect that Namjoon would be somewhere the least. IG Accounts Followers Count 7) RM 44.7 million 6) Jin 46.9 million 5) j-hope 47.9 million 4) Suga 48.0 million 3) Jungkook 51 million (last checked) 2) Jimin 51.9 million 1) V 62.0 million 7th rank: RMĮarlier known as Rap Monster, AKA Kim Namjoon, ranks seventh BTS member with the most fans. Also, we got the positions from forums and Kpop Profiles, although, for the past years, BTS has been flexible in the positions they have. We based this list on the information in the poll in Kpop Profiles and the Global Hallyu Trend 202 2. We’ll do it from the least to the most, so stay with us! If you are answering who your bias is, it’s okay ours changes every time, too! Anyway, without any more things to say, let’s find out the BTS member with the most fans. So the first question is, who is your bias from BTS? The seven-member boy group has been actively busy with individual acts. As much as we love the boys equally, there are always members who own ARMYs’ hearts a little more than the others. The group's latest song, ' Fake Love,' has racked up 90 million views on YouTube since it was published May 18.ARMYs, we may have news for you.

And, the company was even considering an initial public offering. Revenues at BigHit Entertainment have been doubling annually since BTS debuted in 2013, Bloomberg reported in 2017. That fame extends to South America, according to the New York Times Magazine: For a 2017 concert performance in Chile, 12,500 tickets sold out in two hours. 'Thousands of fans were calling our name at the venue, and almost everyone memorized the Korean lyrics of our songs, which was amazing and overwhelming,' he continues. 'We didn't realize we were becoming famous until we were invited to KCONs in the U.S. Soon, the group had a hit: 'BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I NEED U,'' RM tells Time. But in 2015, they began creating more upbeat dance tracks. Initially, the group's sound was closer to rap than pop, according to Vogue. In 2014, BTS first visited Los Angeles to film a Korean reality show called ' American Hustle Life,' and were introduced to the culture of hip-hop. At that time, the band mates were living in a cramped house and sleeping in one room, according to a video by Korea's K Drama TV. And then next time, I watched it with the English subtitle, and then I just removed it.'īigHit Entertainment held auditions for the other members over two years, and the group debuted in 2013 as Bangtan Sonyeondan, which means Bulletproof Boy Scouts, with their album '2 Cool 4 Skool.' Additional members include Jeon Jeong-guk (Jungkook), Jung Hoseok (J-hope), Park Ji-min (Jimin) and Min Yoon-gi (Suga). 'Thanks to my mother, she bought all the season's DVDs,' RM says on NBC's ' The Ellen DeGeneres Show.' 'Firstly, I watched with the Korean subtitle. He learned English as a teenager by watching re-runs of NBC's 'Friends,' paying careful attention to the subtitles.

'Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there.'

'I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school,' RM tells Time. The group got its start in 2010, when RM first met Bang Si Hyuk, the group's executive producer and CEO of BigHit Entertainment, based in Seoul. Kim Tae-hyung, a group member known as V, adds 'I also might have been a farmer.' (Kim Nam-joon, a BTS member known as Rap Monster, now RM, jokes that Jin would be a famous farmer because of his handsome face.) 'I might have turned out to be a farmer because I used to do farming when I was in middle school,' Kim Seok-jin, known as Jin, tells Billboard in Korean. In fact, if the singers - known as Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, Jungkook and Jin, who are all in their early 20s - weren't pursuing music, two BTS members say they might be working on a farm instead. for the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, mingling with stars like Taylor Swift and John Legend.īut the group's meteoric rise to fame didn't come overnight. Sunday, the seven-member group re-appeared in the U.S. At a 2017 BTS concert in Chile, screams from the audience reached 127 decibels, 'well past the noise level at which permanent hearing loss becomes a serious concern,' according to The New York Times Magazine.

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