U.S. BTS on gaining respect in: ‘We feel certain’


The seven-member pop star BTS’s outburst erupts loudly and happily when he hears that he has topped the All-Style Billboard Hot 100 chart.

“Dream,” roared band member R.M. Speaking in Korean by the translator, SUG added, “It doesn’t look real yet.” “We’re really happy.”

The group’s first all-English song “Dynamite” will be released in the U.S. this week. Ranked first on the music charts, BTS topped the first Korean Pop Act Act chart. The upbeat song, “WAP”, was also released by Cardi B and Megan The Stallion for their No. 1 claim.

RM asks the Associated Press to beat “WAP” at the top. “Never! It’s like the song of the year.”

But to get their first chart-topping track seemed inevitable for the K-Pop Boy Band, which has been in the U.S. for the past few years. Has continued to achieve great success in They have had the top four albums of Billboard’s 200 albums, they have achieved top 10 successes on the Hot 100 with “Boy with Love,” “On” and “Fake Love” and in just a few minutes they have reached the US. Sold out football. Stadiums where some pop stars need to join forces to do.

And U.S. Also at the awards show, they have beaten Maroon Mar, Imagine Dragon, Twenty-One Pilot, Jonas Brothers and others, winning honors such as “Top Social Artist” and being named Best Group and Best Pop Act. At Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, they won all four awards for which they were nominated.

When asked if BTS – who released their first single in 2013 – felt that they were in the U.S. Has started to get more respect from, RMA said: “We definitely feel that way.”

“I believe from a cultural perspective, I think getting acquainted is really important. So first, we think … for many Americans (they) weren’t familiar with (us) – we’re different, we (sing) different, we got something different choreography, music videos, everything, lifestyle. “But I think over time, we’re doing these shows and songs, concerts and awards. I think a lot of people are coming into the American music market, like one of a kind (we have),” he said. “I think it’s very good and that’s what we really want.”

It could also be for BTS’s first Grammy nomination.

“When we see (Western) artists … when they get nominated for a Grammy, they go: ‘Yeah! Wow! J-Hope said, standing up from his chair and throwing a small fist into the air.

“Like Travis Scott,” he added. “It makes sense to nominate (famous) people like that and to imagine that we could be nominated for a Grammy, again, it would be such an honor and a great feeling.”

Nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards will be announced later this year. The show does not have a K-Pop category, and while there is a Best World Music Album Award, there is no song category for World and International Music. Those songs, then, will compete for the best du du duo / group performance – a highly competitive award reserved for collaboration for the release of big hits or Uber-popular artists.

But the success of “Dynamite” will explode in the Grammy nominations for BTS.

“Hopefully the whole idea of ​​the nomination is exciting,” Jay-Hope said.

“I mean, we hope. We hope so, ”RMA said. “No one knows about Grammys … but we’re just trying our best.”

R.M. Explains that “Dynamite” has given charge of a new field for BTS, although the song was not to be released. The BTS tour was planned but changed due to the coronavirus: “The epidemic blew everything away.”

The RMA said that they were not aware of the BTS. The Army noted “dynamite” for giving to their dying hard fans.

“And we think it really touched their hearts.”

June, who includes Jin, Wei, Jimin and Jung Cook, says they are busy recording a new album. They believe that in seven years they have been a musical group, they have grown up.

“We have matured with the music, as well as the way we think. We have also developed a high sense of responsibility. This has refined us and this development is really being seen in our music and our dance, ”said Jay-Hope.

The band’s members range in age from 23 to 27, and the youngest member of the clan, Jung Cook, celebrated his birthday this week with some special news.

“I got our No. 1 news on the Hot 100 chart on my birthday, so it was really a celebration of each other.” “It was incredible.”