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BTS
BTS became the first Korean act to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 2020's "Dynamite," and the group's sustained run of number-one albums on the Billboard 200 established them as the most commercially successful K-pop group in American chart history by a wide margin. The group's fan community, known as ARMY, developed into one of the most organized and digitally sophisticated fandoms in modern music, with coordinated streaming, voting, and social media campaigns that directly and measurably influenced music industry chart methodologies and award show voting systems. BTS addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 2018 and again in 2021, speaking on youth empowerment and mental health, an unusual level of direct international diplomatic engagement for a pop music act and reflecting the group's deliberate positioning around messages of self-acceptance throughout their music and public statements. The group's members began mandatory South Korean military service starting in 2022, a legal requirement for South Korean men that temporarily paused the group's collective activities, and BTS's combined global commercial success and cultural influence have made them the most significant single act in K-pop's broader global commercial breakthrough.
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PSY's 2012 single "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views, and its accompanying horse-riding dance became one of the most widely imitated viral dance crazes in internet history, performed by everyone from schoolchildren to major celebrities and even world leaders at public events. The song's satirical lyrics, poking fun at the extravagant lifestyle associated with Seoul's wealthy Gangnam district, gave "Gangnam Style" a layer of social commentary largely lost on much of its massive international audience, who primarily engaged with the song's catchy hook and viral dance rather than its Korean-language satirical content. PSY's breakthrough came years before BTS and BLACKPINK's later global K-pop success, making "Gangnam Style" the genre's first genuine global viral phenomenon and helping introduce a mainstream Western audience to Korean pop music years before the broader K-pop wave that followed. His continued career in South Korea, including work producing and mentoring other Korean artists, has extended PSY's influence within the domestic Korean music industry well beyond his singular global viral moment, even as "Gangnam Style" remains the song most Western audiences still primarily associate with him.
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