The most annoying thing about this discourse re: the American charts is that it's apparently fine to be a professional music writer and talk about BTS and the charts and not talk about how they couldn't get radio play for years because US radio wouldn't play songs in Korean and how fans reacted to that. A Korean group who mostly sings in Korean's success on the Billboard charts is not exactly the same as that of an American group who sings in English, and it's not exactly the same as a Japanese group singing in Japanese charting in Japan. It feels so crazy that major publications can talk about the success of BTS and not talk about this.
The most annoying thing about this discourse re: the American charts is that it's apparently fine to be a professional music writer and talk about BTS and the charts and not talk about how they couldn't get radio play for years because US radio wouldn't play songs in Korean and how fans reacted to that. A Korean group who mostly sings in Korean's success on the Billboard charts is not exactly the same as that of an American group who sings in English, and it's not exactly the same as a Japanese group singing in Japanese charting in Japan. It feels so crazy that major publications can talk about the success of BTS and not talk about this.