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BTS's rise to global stardom hasn't been as fast as you might think. The seven-piece South Korean group launched in 2013 to huge success in their homeland, and despite recently claiming the the title as the world's biggest boy band, their success on the UK's Official Charts - and charts across the world - is still growing.

BTS first appeared on the Official UK Charts in 2016, when their second album Wings landed at Number 62. In 2017, DNA reached Number 90 on the Official Singles Chart, and its parent album Love Yourself: Her debuted at 14, making their first big UK breakthrough. The feat is even more impressive when you consider most of their music is performed in Korean.

Since then, they've scored a Top 40 songs with Idol and Boy With Luv, and four albums from their Love Yourself series have reached the Top 20, including 2019's chart-topping Persona.

MORE: View BTS's complete Official UK Chart history

Their seriously dedicated UK A.R.M.Y (which stands for Adorable Representative MC for Youth) have notched up some 467 million streams of their tracks across all their singles, EPs and albums.

Their most streamed (on both audio and video streaming metrics) song is Boy With Luv, their 2019 collaboration with Halsey that currently stands as their highgest charting song in the UK, peaking at Number 13, with 29.1 million streams.



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Idol, from 2018's Love Yourself: Answer album ranks second place with 21.8 million streams. The song, which blends traditional Korean instruments with South African dance music, was their first song to break the Official UK Top 40, reaching Number 21 following the release of an alternative version featuring Nicki Minaj. DNA, which is widely credited as the group's global breakthrough hit, ranks third in the group's most-streamed Top 40.

Elsewhere,the pop-leaning Fake Love, released in May 2018, is fourth with 20.3 million plays, while the hip hop-lite Mic Drop, a song inspired by Barack Obama's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016, places fifth on 17.7 million.

Just outside the Top 5 in sixth place is Blood, Sweat & Tears, taken from their second album Wings. The EDM-laced banger, which has a stunning six minute visual to accompany it, didn't chart in the UK but has racked up 14.7 million streams regardless.

BTS's Official Top 40 most streamed songs in the UK

POS TITLE ARTIST 1 BOY WITH LUV BTS & HALSEY 2 IDOL BTS 3 DNA BTS 4 FAKE LOVE BTS 5 MIC DROP BTS 6 BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS BTS 7 SAVE ME BTS 8 WASTE IT ON ME STEVE AOKI FT BTS 9 MAKE IT RIGHT BTS 10 I NEED U BTS 11 DOPE BTS 12 GO GO BTS 13 FIRE BTS 14 SPRING DAY BTS 15 NOT TODAY BTS 16 AIRPLANE - PT 2 BTS 17 RUN BTS 18 ANPANMAN BTS 19 EUPHORIA BTS 20 BEST OF ME BTS 21 SILVER SPOON BTS 22 BUTTERFLY BTS 23 DIMPLE BTS 24 LIE BTS 25 MAGIC SHOP BTS 26 IFÂE IZÂ (BOY IN LUV) BTS 27 PIED PIPER BTS 28 21ST CENTURY GIRL BTS 29 INTRO - SERENDIPITY BTS 30 BTS CYPHER 4 BTS 31 MIKROKOSMOS BTS 32 THE TRUTH UNTOLD BTS FT STEVE AOKI 33 DANGER BTS 34 HOME BTS 35 INTRO - BOY MEETS EVIL BTS 36 DIONYSUS BTS 37 I'M FINE BTS 38 SERENDIPITY BTS 39 TRIVIA - SEESAW BTS 40 WAR OF HORMONE BTS

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