All told, Blackpink is the biggest music act in the world, according to Bloomberg’s Pop Star Power Rankings. Alongside the boy group BTS, Blackpink has achieved a level of global popularity unprecedented in the history of music. Musicians that speak English have traveled all over the world for decades.
Is BTS bigger than The Beatles?
Their contribution to music has given both bands and individual members places in the Guinness book of records, with The Beatles having a total of 25 Guinness World Records and BTS 23.
- What is the difference between the Beatles and BTS?
- Although the Beatles were a four-piece band from England, BTS is a boy band from South Korea with seven members: Jin, RM, J-Hope, Suga, V, Jimin, and Jungkook. Both created loyal fanbases and broke records on the music charts. In fact, BTS became the first band since the Beatles to have three Billboard No. 1 albums in one year.
- Are the Beatles and BTS the bestselling groups of 2020?
- The Beatles also perform exceptionally well on streaming services, with many songs racking up hundreds of millions of plays. It’s fitting that the Beatles and BTS—two boy bands that dominated the music industry nearly six decades apart—would be the bestselling groups of 2020.
- How many album units did BTS move in 2020?
- In total, the boy band has moved 1.417 million album-equivalent units through the first half of 2020. Only one other group has eclipsed 1 million album units in the U.S., and they’re a group to which BTS often gets compared: The Beatles.
- Why are we still talking about the Beatles?
- “ In terms of talent, The Beatles is a million times bigger. They wrote, played and sang great original and varies and complex music. They introduced new ideas and concepts. They had an impact on modern culture. And we are still talking about them, more than 50 years after they first appeared.”
Are BTS the biggest band ever?
BTS is arguably the most popular band ever, with the most dedicated following.