In March, BTS was dubbed the most retweeted global artists in the past 30 days on Twitter, one of the virtual barometers of a celebrity's popularity, according to a data journal compiled by the Forbes U.S. edition. The data showed that BTS ranked No. 1 on the top 10 most retweeted artists chart with a dominant 5,393,500 retweets, by far dwarfing No. 2 Kanye West with 3,750,000 retweets. Other Western peers, including Justin Bieber, Zayn, Ashton Irwin of 5 Seconds of Summer and Ariana Grande, were retweeted between 2,095,000 to 3,589,100 times.