The South Korean group BTS unleashes passions.
Since their debut in 2013, the group launched by Big-Hit Music has become a hit machine, and a phenomenon that has long since crossed the borders of South Korea.
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The seven Koreans, recently received by US President Joe Biden, regularly break sales records.
The launch of
Dynamite
's music video was the best start in Youtube history, with 101 million views in 24 hours.
This same song was also the most listened to of 2021 on the Apple Music platform.
Among the seven boys, there is also the first place in the American Billboard ranking, which had never happened before for a Korean music group.
On the downside of this international success, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, RM, Jungkook and Jimin feel the need to take a few breaks to break the spiral of excessive media coverage and cut with the frantic pace they are facing.
So they have just announced that they are taking a break from their careers.
The third in less than ten years of existence.
After a first stop in 2019, the Korean boy band broke social networks by announcing a new stop in December 2021. Six months later, they are doing it again.
The official reason?
Each member of the K-pop group can focus on their own careers
The bombshell announcement was made over a dinner party streamed online to mark the anniversary of the boy band of seven South Korean artists in their twenties, considered ambassadors of part of the world's youth and extremely popular in the United States.