BTS visited the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night, where they predictably took home the Top Social Artist Award for the second year in a row. The live audience shared the same excitement as the group’s devout Twitter following when they delivered an incendiary performance of their new single, “Fake Love.”
Awards show host Kelly Clarkson introduced the “biggest boy band in the world,” wearing huge pink earmuffs to dull the audience’s hysterical screams. The applause swelled even more as the seven band members lurched across the stage one by one at the beginning of the track, which serves as the lead single off their new album, Love Yourself: Tear.
The minimalist stage design shrouded BTS in thick fog and blue and purple lights, allowing their gargantuan hooks and expert choreography to shine. The band members bounded effortlessly across the stage as they alternated between percussive raps and cavernous pop melodies. The septet exhorted the audience to sing the choruses with them, and they delivered with gusto — when they weren’t too busy weeping or dancing with abandon.
BTS beat out fellow pop superstars Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Shawn Mendes to snatch the Top Social Artist crown, a fan-voted category. They earned the same honor last year over many of the same nominees, but Sunday marked their first performance on the awards show, as well as the first-ever Billboard Music Awards performance by a Korean artist.
Awards show performances can work wonders for artists looking to reach the next level of superstardom — not that BTS needed any help. Love Yourself: Tear set a pre-order record in South Korea of 1.44 million copies, and “Fake Love” sits at No. 14 on Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart. Its accompanying video racked up 41 million YouTube views in its first 24 hours, the best debut ever for a K-pop artist.
BTS will perform “Fake Love” again on Friday when they return to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. If anything, these two performances should drum up even more excitement for their fall world tour, which includes 14 sold-out North American arena shows. The past three days have been a whirlwind for the K-pop sensations, but their victory lap has just begun.
TRIBUNNEWS.COM -- Hari ini, Senin (21/5/2018), ajang penghargaan Billboard Music Awards 2018 resmi digelar di MGM Grand Arena Garden di Las Vegas waktu Amerika setempat.
Dari sekian banyaknya musisi dan artis Hollywood yang hadir, idol group K-Pop, BTS , berhasil mencuri perhatian.
Meski tahun ini sudah yang kedua kalinya BTS hadir dan masuk dalam nominasi 'Top Social Artist' di Billboard Music Awards 2018, RM dan kawan-kawan masih menjadi sorotan.
Pasalnya, BTS diberi kesempatan menampilkan 'Fake Love' dari album terbaru mereka, 'Love Yourself: Tear' di panggung Billboard.
BTS menjadi idol group K-Pop pertama yang tampil , terlebih melakukan comeback, di acara penghargaan musik bergengsi.
Tak hanya ARMY saja yang menanti-nanti kehadiran BTS di Billboard Music Awards , banyak musisi Hollywood yang juga tak sabar melihat RM dan kawan-kawan.
Penasaran BTS bertemu dengan musisi dan artis Hollywood mana saja?
Taylor Swift Met BTS Backstage at the Billboard Music Awards: See the Epic Pic
It was the kind of pop meeting of the minds that is guaranteed to melt keyboards from Las Vegas to South Korea. Right after picking up the Top Female Artist award at Sunday night's (May 20) 2018 Billboard Music Awards, Taylor Swift ran into BTS backstage and it was a moment of pure love and joy.
With no less than six heart emojis, Swift commemorated the moment meeting the Love Yourself: Tear band with an instagram post expressing her love for the group and telling them "You're killing it!!"
BTS were gearing up to perform "Fake Love" for the first time on television at the show. Check out the amazing photo below:
