BTS

The all-male K-pop septet BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan, aka Bangtan Boys), originally consisted of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. After the EPs 2 Cool 4 Skool (2013), O!RUL8,2? (2013) and Skool Luv Affair (2014), the album Dark & Wild (2014), the Japanese compilation Wake Up (2014), the EPs The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Part 1 (2014) and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Part 2 - Run (2015), and the compilation The Most Beautiful Moment in Life - Young Forever (2016), probably the only album that deserves to be remembered, BTS became one of Korea's bestselling artists with Wings (2016), largely composed by hitmaker Si-hyuk Bang (who had already created the boy band Groove Over Dose aka g.o.d.), containing the hit Blood Sweat & Tears, an album reissued with additional songs as You Never Walk Alone (2017), while becoming bestselling artists in Japan with Youth (2016) and the singles Spring Day (2017) and DNA (2017). They became the first Korean band to top the US charts with Love Yourself - Tear (2018), followed by two more #1 recordings, the compilation Love Yourself - Answer (2018), which samples the EP Love Yourself - Her (2017) and Love Yourself - Tear, and the EP Map of the Soul - Persona (2019), which make them the first group since the Beatles to top the charts in less than a year, and the best-selling artist in South Korea's history. The number-1 hits were Fake Love (2018), Idol (2018), Boy with Luv (2018), later included in Map of the Soul - Persona.

Map of the Soul 7 (2020), mostly produced by Hyo-won "Pdogg" Kang, topped the sales charts in more than 20 countries and included the hit single On besides most of Map of the Soul - Persona. The video of Dynamite (2020), their second English-language hit, became the first YouTube video ever to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours. Be (2020) came out a few months later, eight songs that managed to further lower their artistic (?) standard.

Proof (2022) is a three-disc career anthology, including a disc of demo versions and leftovers.

J-Hope, aka Ho-seok Jung, debuted solo with the concept album Jack in the Box (2022), and became the first BTS member to release a solo album. The album was composed by producers such as Hyo-won "Pdogg" Kang, MinSu "Ghstloop" Kim, Brasstracks (the production duo of Ivan Jackson and Conor Rayne) that had often worked on BTS albums as well as Elijah "Scoop DeVille" Molina and Clams Casino.