BTS Named The Bestselling Artists Of 2020

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Rebecca Davis editorEven in a pandemic year like no other, the K-pop group BTS — and their fandom like no other — has managed to make record-breaking strides, pushing the boundaries of what a band singing primarily in a non-English language can accomplish in the U.S. music industry, while lifting the spirits of millions of fans with hopeful lyrics at a dark time.

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BTS have been announced as the 2020 winners of the Global Recording Artist Of The Year award from worldwide record industry trade group IFPI.The first South Korean act to ever win the accolade, they are also the first winners who primarily perform in a language other than English.

BTS have been named the best selling act of 2020.The K-pop outfit topped the IFPI poll – the organisation that represents the global recorded music industry, based on worldwide sales, downloads and streams.They are the first non-Western act to win, and the first whose songs are not predominantly sung in English.They beat Taylor Swift, who took the crown in 2019, into second place and Drake.

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Halsey has defended BTS after a German radio DJ was accused of making racist comments about the K-Pop giants.Matthias Matuschik faced criticism when he discussed the Korean band’s cover of Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ while on air at Bavarian radio station Bayern3 last week.While talking about the track, he appeared to compare the group to coronavirus, saying he hoped “a vaccine will be available soon” for the band.He continued to insist that he had “nothing against South Korea” and was not xenophobic

A Bavarian radio station apologized Friday for a host’s comments comparing popular South Korean K-pop band BTS to the coronavirus, saying his choice of words had gone too far but was in no way meant to be “hurtful or racist.”