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They held a press conference for their tour, 2016 BTS LIVE The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage: Epilogue, on May 7. [28] The first shows were held on May 7 and 8 at Olympic Gymnastics Arena in South Korea, where BTS performed songs from the album. [29] In total, the tour was held in nine cities abroad and ended in Japan.
BTS's third Korean studio album, Love Yourself: Tear, was released on May 18, 2018, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the group's highest-charting album in a Western market, as well as the first K-pop album to top the US albums chart and the highest-charting album by an Asian act. [13] BTS had the second-best total album ...
BTS embarked on their Asia tour extension, 2016 BTS LIVE "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage: Epilogue" from May to August 2016. Tickets for the 14 shows in 10 Asian cities sold out, some in as little as five seconds. [68] BTS win their first major Korean award for Album of the Year at the 2016 Melon Music Awards on November 19, 2016
On October 9, 2016 BTS held a comeback preview show [61] on Naver V LIVE. [62] The next day, they held a 'Wings Showcase' [63] [64] for the release of the studio album at Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Korea. BTS also promised to have new songs at upcoming concerts. Promotion on local music programs continued for a month, starting with Mnet's M!
BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history. Their Map of the Soul: 7 album is the first to sell over 4 and 5 million copies. Kim Gun-mo's Wrongful Meeting was the best-selling album in South Korea for 24 years, with an estimated 3.3 million copies sold.
The album entered the September monthly chart at number four, with 81,763 cumulative sales, [6] and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) shortly afterwards, denoting 100,000 physical copies sold. [7] It was the 48th best-selling album of the year in Japan per Oricon's annual album chart for 2016. [8]
South Korean boy band BTS debuted on the music scene in June 2013. They have since released or featured in 72 music videos, and released 49 video albums. Known for their high quality music videos—and accompanying choreography therein—the band have achieved multiple world records with several of these, additionally winning various domestic and international awards for them.
BTS released two more singles in 2015, "Dope" and "Run"—the latter reached the top ten in South Korea. The band's fourth Japanese single, "For You", was released on June 17, 2015, and became its first number one hit in Japan, topping both the Oricon Singles Chart and Billboard Japan ' s Hot 100 . [ 6 ]