1. 190412 Map of the Soul: Persona 6th mini album
   1. Tracklist
   2. Korean Sales
   3. Korean Charts and sales
   4. US Charts and sales
   5. Hot 100
   6. Billboard 200
   7. Itunes/apple/Amazon
   8. Spotify
   9. IFPI
   10. Music videos
   11. International charts 
   12. International shows/events/ magazines
   13. Awards
   14. TIME Magazine
   15. Tours
   16. Certifications
   17. End of Year Charts 
2. 190628 BTS World 
   1. Tracklist
   2. BTS World: Original Soundtrack
   3. Korean sales 
   4. Gaon
   5. Billboard 
   6. Hanteo /oricon
3. Solo + Collabs 
   1. 190130 Scenery by V
   2. 190327- HONNE – Crying Over You ◐ (Feat. RM & BEKA)’.
   3. 190707 – Heize’s “We Don’t Talk Together” produced by Suga
   4. 190725 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Seoul Town Road Remix) feat. RM of BTS’
   5. 190810 – Tae released ‘Winter Bear by V’ 
   6. 190927 – ‘j-hope ‘Chicken Noodle Soup (feat. Becky G)
   7. 191206 Halsey x Suga – ‘SUGA’s Interlude’
4. 2019 Japanese Releases
   1. 190703 10th Japan Single Album: Lights/Boy With Luv 

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190412 Map of the Soul: Persona 6th mini album

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Tracklist

Intro: Persona (solo by RM) (MV)

작은 것들을 위한 시 (Boy With Luv) (feat. Halsey) Title (MV)

소우주 (Mikrokosmos)

Make It Right

HOME

Jamais Vu (song by Jin, j-hope, and Jung Kook)

Dionysus Follow-up

Korean Sales

MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA

Format: 6th Mini Album

Release Date: April 12th, 2019

Certification: 4x Million by KMCA | Gold by RIAJ

1st Day Sales (Hanteo): 1,479,930 copies sold

1st Week Sales (Hanteo): 2,130,480 copies sold

1st Month Sales (Circle): 3,229,032 copies sold

Total Sales in South Korea (Circle): 4,666,918 copies sold

Korean Charts and sales

• Boy With luv scored 12 PAKs on korean charts, they were the first artist to have a PAK in 2019.
• “Map of the Soul: Persona” on MelOn
  • Boy With luv – 567.8M
  • Mikrokosmos – 204.2M
  • Home – 98.5M
  • Make It Right – 142.8M
  • Jamais Vu – 89.3M
  • Dionysus – 126.9M
  • Intro: Persona – 75.8M
  • total – 1.3B streams
• “Map of the Soul: Persona” on Gaon
  • Map of the Soul: Persona was the best selling album of 2019 on GAON having 3.7M sales. It’s the only album in 2019 to ever cross 1M sales.
• MOTS: Persona is the best selling Album by an Asian Act of all time in terms of SPS units (more than 12M units). 
• Map of the Soul: Persona WW Sale Units (UWC) = 4,643,000 
• BTS became the first Asian Act to surpass 3M sales with MOTS: Persona since Japanese band Kobukuro who surpassed 3M copies for All Singles Best in 2010 (8.5 years after BTS got it).
• Boy With Luv WW Points (UWC) = 1,582,000. 
• Boy With Luv peaked at #2 in the UWC Top Singles (WW). 

US Charts and sales

• BTS in Nielsen’s Year-End chart US 2019: 

• Top 10 Albums (Total Sales): #6 MOTS: Persona  454,000 (1) 
• Top 10 Physical Albums: #2 MOTS: Persona 415,000 (1)

• “Boy With Luv” is BTS’s most consumed song to date in the US, according to Nielsen (236 million streams). [1]
• MOTS: Persona is the first Asian Album to enter the HDD Year-End Albums chart at #44 with 633,000 units in the HDD’s TOP 50 ALBUMS YEAR-END 2019. [1]
• MOTS: Persona is the first Asian Album where all its singles surpassed 100K units in the USA. 
• BWL is the first Korean song from a Korean Group to enter the Top 20 of the US Pop Radio. [1]

Hot 100

• Boy With Luv debuted #8 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, making it as BTS’ second top 10 hit. It spent 8 weeks on chart

Billboard 200

• Map of the Soul: Persona debuted #1 as well on billboard 200 with 230k units sold, it was BTS’ third album to top the chart. It spent 35 weeks on chart.
• MOTS: Persona is the first non-English EP to get both a #1 in BB200 and a RIAA Certification. 
• MOTS: Persona is the 7th EP to get #1 in BB200 in history. [1] [2]
• First Korean Act to sell >6M total albums in one year (2019).
• First Asian Album to complete 1 year in the Billboard 200 (LY: Answer).
• First Asian Album to enter the Top 100 of the Billboard 200 Year-End Chart (MOTS: Persona).
• First Asian Album to stay in the Billboard 200 Year-End Chart for 2 years (LY: Answer).
• First Asian Act to enter the Year-End Chart of Billboard 200 Artists, Billboard 200 Duo/Group, Billboard 200, Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Internet Albums for the second time.

Itunes/apple/Amazon

• MOTS: Persona has #1 in 49 countries in Apple Music so far.
• MOTS: Persona is the highest charting pop album on Apple Music US at #5.  [1]
• ‘Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey)’ is the first Korean song to get #1 as the most streamed pop song on Apple Music US (and #18 for global AM). [1]
• All tracks from ‘Map Of The Soul: PERSONA’ has entered top 200 Apple Music US which is a first for an Asian Act to get all songs in the chart. [1]
• BWL peaked at #29 in the Apple Music Canada. All songs of MOTS: Persona charted in AM Canada. [1]

Spotify

Map of the Soul: Persona had 21M streams on its first day, while it had 111M streams on spotify on its first week.

All tracks of MOTS: Persona were able to debut on global spotify chart

• #4, Boy With Luv – 4.5M
• #14, Mikrokosmos – 2.69M
• #17, Make It Right – 2.6M
• #19, Home – 2.4M
• #22, Dionysus – 2.28M
• #24, Jamais Vu – 2.27M
• #39, Intro: Persona – 1.8M
• “Map of the Soul: Persona” on Spotify

Boy With luv – 833M

Mikrokosmos – 229M

Home – 210M

Make It Right – 225M

Jamais Vu – 171M

Dionysus – 197M

Intro: Persona – 129M

total – 1.99B streams

IFPI

• Persona also ranked #3 on global album year-end chart of IFPI
• First non-English Act to enter the Top 10 of the IFPI’s Top 10 Global Recording Artists of the Year for the 2^nd year.
• First EP to enter the Top 10 of the IFPI’s Top 10 Best Selling Albums of the Year (Best Selling EP of 2019).

Music videos

• Boy With Luv broke the record of the most-viewed MV in youtube that time for the first 24 hours garnering 74.6M views.

International charts 

• Persona  debuted #1 on World Albums chart and spent 16 weeks at top. It is still charting for its 144 weeks! 

daesangs won:

• Boy With Luv – 4 ( 2 SOTY, 1 ROTY, 1 DIGITAL )
• Map of the Soul: Persona – 4 ( 3 AOTY, 1 PHYSICAL )

total – 8 daesangs

International shows/events/ magazines

• First Asian Act to perform at the Good Morning America’s ‘Summer Concert Series’ as headliners.
• First Korean Act to perform at the finale of The Voice.
• First Korean Act to perform at the Britain Got Talent’s fourth semi-final.

Awards

• First Asian Group to win the Best Duo/Group and 3^rd win for Best Top Social Artist at the BBMAs 2019.
• First Asian Group to win the Best Duo/Group and 2^nd win for Best Top Social Artist at the AMAs 2019.
• First non-English Act to win the “Tour of the Year” at the AMAs 2019.
• First Act to win all Daesangs (Daesang All Kill) at the GDA, MMA and MAMA.
• First Act to win the “Artist of the Year” Daesang four years in a row in MAMA 2019.
• First Act to win the Artist Award the 3^rd time at the Korean Broadcasting Awards.
• First Korean Act to win at the MTV Video Music Awards.
• First Korean Act to win the Variety’s Hitmakers’ “Group of the Year”.
• First non-English Act to be selected by CNN as the “The 10 Artists Who Transformed Music in the 2010s” and the Wired’s “The 10 Best Artists of the 2010s” Decades’ chart.
• First Asian Act to be ranked #1 in the ‘Top Rank Global Sustainable Future Leaders’ for United Nations’ SDG.
• First Fandom (ARMY) to be ranked #1 as the ‘Top Rank Sustainable Global Group’ for United Nations’ SDG.
• First Korean Act to enter the Top 50 of the Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities of 2019.
• First Korean Act to enter the Gold House’s A100 List.

TIME Magazine

• First Korean Act to be selected for the TIME’s “25 Most Influential People on the Internet” for the 3^rd time.

Tours

• First Non-English Act to sell out and perform a whole stadium tour in USA: Rose Bowl (2 shows), MetLife (2 shows) & Soldier Field (2 shows).
• First Non-English Act to sell out and perform a whole stadium tour in UK: Wembley Stadium (2 shows), Stade de France (2 shows).
• First Asian Act to sell out and have a stadium concert in Brazil: Allianz Parque (2 shows
• First Group to go #1 in the “Power People” in the JoyNews24 Survey.
• First Non-English Act to win the Ticketmaster Touring Milestone Award.
• First non-English Act to go #1 in the Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar.
• First non-English Act to enter the Top 10 of the Pollstar’s Year-End Worldwide Tours Top 100.
• First concert by an Asian Act (and Non-English Act) to grab the #1 spot in the Billboard’s Weekly Box scores (Hot Tours) chart.
• First non-English Act to grab the #1 spot in the Billboard’s Monthly Top Stadiums, Top Boxscores and Top Tours Charts.
• First non-English Act to get #1 in the Billboard Hot Tours.
• First Asian Act to stay in the Billboard Top Tours Monthly chart for 4 months.
• First Non-English Act to enter the Billboard Top Touring Artists of the decade (2010s).
• First Asian Act to enter the Top 40 Touring Acts in the Billboard Year-End Chart.

Certifications

• RIAJ Certifications:
  • Boy With Luv – platinum 💿
  • Mikrokosmos – silver
  • Make It Right – silver
  • Dionysus – silver
• RIAA Certifications:
  • Boy With Luv – 1x platinum 💿
  • Map of the Soul: Persona – gold 📀

End of Year Charts 

• First Asian Act to enter the Year-End Chart of Top Artists, Social 50 and Top Duo/Group for the third time.
• First Korean Act to debut 5 albums in the Year-End chart of World Albums.
• First non-English Act to enter the Billboard’s Boxscore Top 40 Tours Year- End Chart.
• First non-English Act to enter the Billboard’s Top 25 Boxscores taking 7 spots.
• First Asian Act to go #1 in the Billboard Year-End Chart Independent Albums (also with 5 albums charting simultaneously).
• First Asian Act to go #1 in the Social 50 Year-End Chart for the 3^rd year.
• First Asian Album to enter the Top 10 of Billboard Top Album Sales Year-End Chart with MOTS: Persona.
• First Asian Act to enter the Year-End Albums Charts of Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UK.
• First Asian Act to debut more than one Asian album in the Year-End Top Albums charts of France (2), Spain (2) and Hungary (6).
• First Asian Act to be awarded “Grade A” for the 3rd time in the “Favorite Pop Albums” with MOTS: Persona by AllMusic’s Favorite Pop Albums: AllMusic 2019 Year in Review.
• First singer to be chosen as the representative Brand of ‘Hallyu’ for the ‘entertainment category’ by the Brand Stars Selection Committee for the 2^nd time.

190628 BTS World 

Soundtrack Album Release date: June 28, 2019

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Tracklist

Heartbeat (MV)

Dream Glow

A Brand New Day

All Night

Captain

Cake Waltz

Shine

Not Alone

Friends

Wish

Flying

LaLaLa

You Are Here

You Are Here (Orchestra Version)

BTS World: Original Soundtrack

Korean sales 

Format: Original Soundtrack

Release Date: June 28th, 2019

Certification: 2x Platinum by KMCA

1st Day Sales (Hanteo): 90,347 copies sold

1st Week Sales (Hanteo): 372,751 copies sold

1st Month Sales (Circle): 498,455 copies sold

Total Sales in South Korea (Circle): 553,364 copies sold

Gaon

• BTS WORLD OST was the best-selling OST album in South Korea. It broke a 17-year record of the OST album “Winter Sonata” which sold 402k copies that time (Sonata reclaimed the record later on since its album was still getting sales while BTS WORLD OST is not on sale). [1] [2]

Billboard 

• First Korean OST album to chart in the Billboard 200 with BTS WORLD.
• First Korean OST to debut in the Billboard Soundtrack Chart with BTS WORLD.
• First Korean OST to sell over 500,000 copies and get Double Platinum from Gaon with BTS WORLD.

Hanteo /oricon

• BTS World OST is the best selling OST album in Hanteo Chart history. [1]

Solo + Collabs 

190130 Scenery by V

190130 Tae released his song ‘Scenery‘ on SoundCloud.

190327- HONNE – Crying Over You ◐ (Feat. RM & BEKA)’.

190327- [Song Release]  ‘HONNE – Crying Over You ◐ (Feat. RM & BEKA)’.

190707 – Heize’s “We Don’t Talk Together” produced by Suga

190707 – [Song Release] Heize’s “We Don’t Talk Together” produced by Suga has been released (listen here).

190725 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Seoul Town Road Remix) feat. RM of BTS‘

190725 ‘[Song release] Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Seoul Town Road Remix) feat. RM of BTS’.

190810 – Tae released ‘Winter Bear by V’ 

190810 – [Song Release] Tae released ‘Winter Bear by V’ 

190821 – ‘[BANGTAN BOMB] ‘Winter Bear’ cover shooting behind’.

190927 – ‘j-hope ‘Chicken Noodle Soup (feat. Becky G)

190927 – (song release) ‘j-hope ‘Chicken Noodle Soup (feat. Becky G)’ MV’ has been released. video messages: (1), (2).

191206 Halsey x Suga – ‘SUGA’s Interlude’

191206 – [Song release] Halsey x Suga – ‘SUGA’s Interlude’ has been released.

2019 Japanese Releases

190703 10th Japan Single Album: Lights/Boy With Luv 

Japanese Single Release date: July 3, 2019

Lights

Boy With Luv (Japanese Ver.)

IDOL (Japanese Ver.)