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  Black BTS Fans Share Why They 'Purple' This K-Pop Group

  

  theroot.com

  Sabrena Khadija realized just how much of a BTS fan she was one freezing morning in Times Square back in 2017. A friend invited her to stand in line at 4 a.m. to be one of the first people to buy the seven-member band from South Korea’s BT21 merchandise…and she didn’t say no.Read more...

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  BTS’s Loyal Army of Fans Is the Secret Weapon Behind a $4 Billion I.P.O.

  

  nytimes.com

  What investors are really paying for is not necessarily the K-pop group or its management company,...

  What investors are really paying for is not necessarily the K-pop group or its management company, but its huge, highly connected ecosystem of followers.

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  BTS: K-pop stars become first all-South Korean act to top US singles charts

  

  theguardian.com

  Dynamite, the boy band’s first single sung completely in English, has nabbed the No 1 spot...

  Dynamite, the boy band’s first single sung completely in English, has nabbed the No 1 spot from Cardi B’s WAPThe K-pop sensation BTS have become the first all-South Korean act to rule the top US singles chart, the industry tracker Billboard announced Monday, with their English-language Dynamite hitting No 1.It’s another milestone cementing the seven-member boy band’s global dominance, just hours after BTS beat...

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  Hindu God in a K-Pop Video? Blackpink Runs Afoul of Fans

  

  nytimes.com

  A tempest over the band Blackpink’s use of a Hindu god in a video was the...

  A tempest over the band Blackpink’s use of a Hindu god in a video was the latest example of K-pop fans holding artists to account — while staying fiercely loyal.

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