South Korean boy band BTS top US album charts in K-pop first
It is the first primarily foreign-language number one album in over 12 years.
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South Korean boy band BTS have become the first K-pop artists to top the US album charts.
The seven-piece group – who mix K-pop with hip-hop and RnB – scored the landmark achievement with their latest record Love Yourself: Tear.
Performed predominantly in Korean, it is the first primarily foreign-language number one album in over 12 years, Billboard said.
Formed in 2013, BTS are made up of V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope.
K-pop, an abbreviation of Korean pop, has grown beyond its origins of electronic, hip-hop, pop and rock into a subculture of its own.
The Billboard charts are based on sales, downloads and streams of albums.
