BTS has been Officially included by Billboard on their decades-long list of “The Greatest Pop Star of Every Year”!
This week, Billboard named BTS, The Popular K-Pop Sensation as the “The Greatest Pop Star of 2020.” proceeding with its tradition of assigning a pop star that shone especially bright for each year. BTS joins a list of incredible singers that goes all the way back to 1981 and includes many other artists as well.
BTS 2020 Achievements
For its most recent expansion to the rundown, Billboard featured BTS’s numerous memorable accomplishments in 2020. Including turning into the First ever Korean act at any point to score a Grammy Awards nomination (for their raving success “Dynamite”. Which was the first song by an all-Korean gathering to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100). BTS additionally impacted the world forever on the Billboard chart. When their most recent title track “Life Goes On” appeared at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Making it the first track primarily sung in Korean ever to top the chart.
Billboard’s The Greatest Pop Star Of 2020: BTS
On March 6, Billboard took to Twitter to declare their ‘Most noteworthy Pop Star list’ from 1999-2000. Amazingly, BTS packed away the 2020 title as they were authoritatively named Billboard’s The Greatest Pop Star Of 2020. Throughout the long term, specialists who were regarded with the title. Including Adele, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Jeniffer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Lil Wayne, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Usher.
BTS is the first boy band to be awarded with the title since NSYNC, back in 2000. Overall, It is the seventh duo/band to be named ‘Greatest Pop Star’ by Billboard. Joining other bands like Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, Bon Jovi, Nirvana, TLC, and NSYNC. Furthermore, BTS is also the only Asian band to make it on the list ever.
Reporting BTS’s most recent accomplishment, Billboard’s Mia Nazareno wrote, “It’s difficult to disregard. That BTS is the First Asian Act to show up on this rundown close by undeniable. No-questions-asked English-language geniuses. While non-English masterpieces are regularly sidelined into ‘unfamiliar’ classifications. This degree of acknowledgment for a dominatingly Korean-language band from Western media. The gathering was even named 2020 Entertainer of the Year by TIME—feels like a changing of the watchman at the doors of American top 40.”
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