BTS makes it to US Weekly’s ‘Most Influential Celebs on Social Media’ chart

K-pop superstar BTS has been tapped as one of the most influential celebrities on social media by US Weekly.

On Friday, the US magazine published a list of the top 15 celebrities around the globe that are the most influential and active on social media. BTS landed at No. 14, becoming the only Asian act to make it to the star-studded list. US Weekly also introduced BTS’ recent achievements related to social media, which included how the group’s worldwide fan group contributed to BTS winning top social artist award at the Billboard Music Awards earlier this year by tweeting the hashtag #BTSBBMAS more than 300 million times, as well as topping Billboard’s Social 50 chart over 30 weeks in a row. 

Other big-name stars on the list were Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna and current and former US presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama.

Fresh off of making history with its latest EP “Love Yourself Seung Her,” BTS will release a new Japanese single album on Dec. 6, featuring an original Japanese track “Crystal Snow” along with translated versions of several “Love Yourself Seung Her” tracks, including “DNA” and “MIC Drop.”
BTS performed in Taiwan on Saturday and Sunday as part of the 2017 BTS Trilogy Episode III The Wings Tour.

By Hong Dam-young (lotus@heraldcorp.com)