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BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys or Beyond The Scene, is a seven-member South Korean boyband formed by Big Hit Entertainment.

Previously they were called Bangtan sonyeondan, which means Bulletproof boy scouts.

They debuted on June 12, 2013, with the song "No More Dream" from their first album called 2 cool for 4 school which they won several "New Artist of the Year" awards including those at the 2013 Melon Music Awards and the Golden Disc Awards the 2014 Seoul Music Awards.

The band continued rising to widespread prominence with their subsequent albums Dark & Wild(2014) The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 2(2015) and The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever (2016), with both the latter two entering the Billboard 200. The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever went on to win the "Album of the Year" award at the 2016 Melon Music Awards.

Their second full album, Wings (2016),peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200, which marked the highest chart ranking for a K-pop album ever.

In their native South Korea, Wings became the best selling album in the Gaon Album Chart history at the time. The album went on to sell more than 1.5 million copies, making it BTS's first "million seller", and allowed the group to be awarded Artist of the Year at the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards.

To date, BTS's discography has sold an estimated four million albums worldwide.

Known for their large social media presence, BTS were listed by Forbes as the most retweeted artist on Twitter in March 2016. Following that, Twitter launched its first ever K-pop Twitter emoji featuring BTS.

In 2017, BTS won a Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist.

In June 2017, Time magazine named the band one of the 25 most influential people on the internet.

The group's name BTS is an acronym for the Korean expression Bangtan Sonyeondan (Hangul: 방탄소년단), literally meaning "Bulletproof Boy Scouts".

In Japan, they are know as Bōdan Shōnendan (防弾少年団), which translates the same.

On July 2017, BTS announced that in addition to being known as Bangtan Sonyeondan or Bulletproof Boy Scouts, they will now include "Beyond The Scene" as their new brand identity.

P.S- All information is from Wikipedia and none of it is mine.

The interesting bits comes later from me and various other armys.😂

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