MY JOURNEY WITH YOU

"MAP OF THE SOUL"

"YOUR THOUGHTS CAN'T BE PROCESSED WITHOUT YOUR DESIRE. YOU SHOULD BE PASSIONATE ABOUT IT"

This phase seriously dedicated to me. Yes ...only me ....because from here I started recognizing my drawbacks, my flaws, my mistakes. This phase was my biggest turning point. Let's move ahead with their success and know more about them:-

MAP OF THE SOUL : THE WORLD TOUR

In February 2019, BTS attended their first 61st GRAMMY AWARDS as award presenters. They appeared at the LA GRAMMY MUSEUM in that same year.

In April they became the first Asian act who surpass 5 billion streams on spotify....huge achievement. Time named them TIME 100'S most influential people in the year 2019.

Their 6th EP MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA released in the month of April 12 with their superhit single "BOY WITH LUV" featuring an American singer HALSEY. They reached their new heights of success ...their career boomed up with this. This EP became the first Korean language album to reach at the number 1 position in U.K and AUSTRALIA. It became the third album to top at the BILLBOARD 200. It later became the best selling album ever in South Korea with approx. 3.2 million sales in less than a month.

"BOY WITH UV" debuted at number 8 on the BILLBOARD HOT 100, the highest in history for a Korean Group. It's music video became most viewed video within 24 hrs in 2019. It became Gold Certified in multiple countries for selling nearly 35,000 units. Whereas in U.S it became platinum certified for selling over 1 million copies . This EP attained Silver in the U.K and Gold in France, Selling over 60,000 units and 50,000 units respectively.

With their two wins consecutively at the 26th BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS they embarked on their world tour stadium extension , LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF. They performed in various stadiums including WEMBLEY STADIUM , STADEDE FRANCE, MET LIFE STADIUM, ROSE BOWL and SOLDIER FIELD. With this opportunity they became the first Asian and the first non- English speaking artists ever to headline and sell out wembley stadium.

The concert at ROSE BOWL STADIUM broke all the records for highest grossing single engagement in the venue's Box score History, surpassed Taylor Swift's and U2's previous dates there.

During the tour they performed on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. They also performed on the final episode of THE VOICE and one of the semi finals of Britain's Got Talent.

In June 2019 they released their new mobile game BTS WORLD, BTS released three collaboration singles "DREAM GLOW" featuring English singer " CHARLIE XCX. "A BRAND NEW DAY" with Swedish singer "ZARA LARSON" and "ALL NIGHT" with American rapper "JUICE WORLD".

They also released the " HEARTBEAT" with a music video from the games official soundtrack, titled BTS WORLD: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK. Later this soundtrack certified double platinum by GAON on August 8 and surpassed 500,000 copies that were sold. The game was developed by South Korean company NETMARBLE, the game was released on 26th June to ios and android systems in over 175 countries.

On July 3rd they released their Japanese single "LIGHTS". It's pre-orders surpassed 1 million copies breaking 24 years old records for foreign artists and it was the first time a Korean artist achieved a million shipment for a single in Japan.

"LIGHTS" went on and sell over 1 million copies and received MILLION CERTIFICATION by RIAJ on August 8. This was the first time a male act achieved this since Masafumi Akikawa's August 2007 single, "A THOUSAND WINDS".

In October BTS performed at King Fahd International Stadium Riyadh and became first foreign act to perform solo concert in Saudi Arabia. For their final stop of record breaking love yourself : speak yourself world tour, the group held a run of three sold out nights at Seoul's Olympic Stadium. On that same month they released the remix version of "MAKE IT RIGHT" featuring Lauv as the second single from their album MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA. In November BTS became first k pop group to won favourite duo at the 2019 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS and favourite social artist consecutively (2018 & 2019).

In December 2019 they attended 2019 MELON MUSIC AWARDS. They created history pf Kpop to receive all grand prizes from both Award functions.

At 34th GOLDEN DISC AWARDS they became first artists in history to win grand prizes in both the physical and digital categories in a single year. MAP OF THE SOUL:PERSONA became the most successful album of their life.

Since I was reading that .....I learned so many things from them. I was yes.......attracted towards their success but I've never saw the pain behind that success.

At first we all attracted towards their handsome faces but what about their hard work ????????????. That was not an easy path for them....not for us well .

Since 2017 I was following them.......In mid 2018 somewhere in my heart RM made a space ....say a special space. Giving him a loving sight was not easy for me as my hatred towards him was so high.......but how I was changed really I too myself doesn't understand.

I shared what I read about them.....There's lot more to know about them ....but I think I've lost my track little bit.....

NEXT PHASE--------------> MORE OF A SUCCESS ...MORE DEEP MY THOUGHTS....MORE OF MY LOVE FOR THEM......:):):)

THANK YOU  SO MUCH FOR READING THIS LITTLE PIECE OF MY LIFE JOURNEY WITH BTS. I LOVE YOU ALL AS YOU ALL ARE MY SUPPORT SYSTEM. MY LIFE WASN'T EASY BUT THESE SEVEN SOULS REALLY MADE MY LIFE EASY GOING AND LOVABLE :) I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO BECAME A PART OF MY LIFE :)