K-Pop Turns Out to be Best-Selling in 2020

K-pop sensation BTS with their upbeat and spellbinding songs honored with the Global Recording Artist of the Year Award, an accolade to honor the most popular recording artist based on a total of album-equivalent units, which include music downloads, streaming, and physical format sales.

The pop group Bangton Boys popularly known as BTS has been named as best-selling artists of 2020 by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), an organization that represents the recorded music industry.

Congratulations to @BTS_bighit, the winners of the #IFPIGlobalArtistChart 2020! 👏

Here’s the top 🔟 in full:

🥇@BTS_twt
🥈@taylorswift13
🥉@Drake@theweeknd@billieeilish@Eminem@PostMalone@ArianaGrande@JuiceWorlddd@justinbieberhttps://t.co/loJ36s5kwP pic.twitter.com/MNz0v3xdtH

— IFPI (@IFPI_org) March 4, 2021

The Korean boyband outdoes Taylor Swift, an American singer-songwriter, who grabbed the title last year.

BTS released two chart-topping albums in the pandemic-hit 2020 named Map of the Soul: 7 and Be.

K-pop is a mainstream Korean popular music that originated from South Korea around 1990s. It includes rock, hip hop, and electronic music.

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BTS debuted in 2013 and has been the first K-pop boyband to top the United States album charts.

The fame BTS relishes now is earned by the hard work of years. Since BTS’s debut seven years ago, the band has slowly climbed the stairs of success and popularity.

The boys remained the top-grossing touring group of 2019 and broke Billboard’s Social 50 chart record, and the band also garnered a number of positions on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 singles chart.

“BTS are a global phenomenon. They have had another outstanding year, releasing three albums, and continually finding creative and engaging ways to share their story with the world,” IFPI Chief Executive Frances Moore complemented BTS.

IFPI maintained that the award takes account of an artist’s worldwide performance in digital and physical music formats during the year.