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BTS performs on a stage in central Seoul on March 21.

BTS's 'Butter' viewed more than 1.1 billion times on YouTube

The 2021 hit became the megagroup's seventh music video to reach the mark.

2026.7.27

Butter rice cakes are displayed at a dessert cafe in Seoul at around 3 p.m. on March 10. Butter rice cake, made with glutinous rice flour, butter and milk, is crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside, and has recently begun trending on social media. [NOH YU-RIM]

Butter 'tteok' the latest dessert to pop like trouble as trends come and go at light speed

Dessert trends are changing so quickly that small business owners are finding it hard to keep up. As trends flare up and fade within weeks, cafe operators say they are being squeezed by volatile demand, inventory risks and rising ingredient costs.

2026.3.23

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Boy band BTS appears at the 2019 Variety's Hitmakers Brunch in West Hollywood, California, on Dec. 7, 2019. [AP/YONHAP]

BTS ranks 34th on Apple Music's most-streamed songs of past decade

Four Korean songs, including hits by BTS and Blackpink's Rosé, have been included in Apple Music's list of the 500 most-streamed tracks of the past decade.

2025.7.7

BTS makes history as 'Butter' tops Oricon's five-year chart

BTS made history by topping Japan's Oricon five-year singles chart with 'Butter' and 'Dynamite.'

2024.4.12

People lie on sunbeds at Maengbang Beach in Samcheok, Gangwon, a site made famous for being featured in boy band BTS's album ″Butter″ (2021). [JOONGANG PHOTO]

BTS, local governments clash over boy band-themed tourist sites

Localities that have been seeing an increasing number of tourists thanks to boy band BTS are now on the verge of losing them as the group’s agency officially requested they refrain from installing any artist-related works in their cities ...

2024.1.15

BTS's J-Hope to perform on 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'

J-Hope of BTS will perform on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," an annual New Year's Eve special show by ABC TV, on Dec. 31.

2022.12.16

BTS debuted in 2013 as a hip-hop group under BigHit Entertainment (now BigHit Music under HYBE), which was a small firm at the time. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

From hip-hop band to social justice warriors — a look back at BTS so far

The first chapter of BTS's career as a group has officially come to a close. The K-pop sensation's eldest member Jin is set to enroll in a front-line boot camp north of Seoul on Tuesday, as part of his mandatory military service. All able-bodied ...

2022.12.13

Amore Pacific released an overnight lip mask in collaboration with boy band BTS. [AMORE PACIFIC]

Amore Pacific releases Laneige overnight lip mask in collaboration with BTS

Amore Pacific will release an overnight lip mask in collaboration with boy band BTS, according to the cosmetics company on Monday. The “Lip & Pop Edition” lip masks will be released for sale through Laneige, Amorepacific’s makeup and skincare ...

2022.10.24

'Butter' was streamed more than 1 billion times on Spotify, according to the music platform on Friday. [BIG HIT MUSIC]

BTS’s 'Butter' streamed over 1 billion times on Spotify

BTS’s mega-hit “Butter” (2021) has accumulated more than 1 billion streams on Spotify. According to the global music streaming platform Friday, “Butter,” which was released on May 21, 2021, made it to the Spotify’s playlist “Billions Club.”

2022.10.14

Team ARMY52Hz for BTS, a group consisting of BTS’s fans dubbed ARMY, uploaded a post last week encouraging other ARMY to actively stream “Yet To Come” so that it makes it onto the top 100 songs of 2022. As of now, it is uncertain if any BTS song will make it onto the annual chart.

The case of the music charts void of K-pop boy bands

Boy bands now are nowhere to be found gracing the top spots of streaming charts, not even in the top 50. K-pop agencies report on a near daily basis that boy groups are hitting new highs in CD sales, selling over a million copies in the first ...

2022.10.11