Inside the Unrelenting Power of K-Pop: Your Guide to Everything From Bts and Beyond
For the last two years, fans have watched as the Billboard Music Awards—an award show dictated by the venerated music publication's iconic charts, themselves dictated by (ostensibly) American music tastes—as the trophy for Top Social Artist has been handed over to an act that's recorded hardly anything in English.
A fan-voted category that once belonged to Justin Bieber, who won six straight years in a row, now seems to be firmly in the clutches of a septet out of South Korea who have been on the forefront of a global music revolution.
We're talking, of course, about Bts.
For two years now, the group—comprised of Rm, V, Suga, Jimin, Jin, J-Hope and Jungkook—has beaten out the likes...
