{"id":28239,"date":"2022-06-23T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=28239"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:10:57","slug":"bts-is-among-the-50-best-selling-artists-in-history-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-is-among-the-50-best-selling-artists-in-history-check-out\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS is among the 50 best-selling artists in history. Check out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> may be on an indefinite <strong>hiatus<\/strong>, but the South Korean boy group&#8217;s work has definitely made history and they&#8217;re among the top 50<strong> best-selling<\/strong> artists in music industry history.<\/p>\n<p>With only 9 years of career, the South Korean group appears with more than 105 million equivalent units sold, between albums and singles, and is ranked 46th among the best-selling artists in history.<\/p>\n<p> The information is from the <strong>ChartMasters<\/strong> website.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_myyg93\/status\/1539324140276023296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/_myyg93\/status\/1539324140276023296<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The position puts the group ahead of bigger names in music and with longer careers, such as <strong>Rihanna<\/strong>, <strong>Drake<\/strong>, <strong>Backstreet Boys<\/strong>, <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong> and <strong>Adele<\/strong>. The Top 10 best-selling artists of all time, of course, goes to the British band <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, with <strong>Madonna<\/strong> being the only woman in the top 10. Check out the top 10:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beatles<\/strong> &#8211; 419,736,000<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; 334,415,000<br \/>\n<strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> &#8211; 318,657,000<br \/>\n<strong>Queen<\/strong> &#8211; 274,577,000<br \/>\n<strong>Madonna<\/strong> &#8211; 245,766,000<br \/>\n<strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> &#8211; 242,423,000<br \/>\n<strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> &#8211; 235,824,000<br \/>\n<strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> &#8211; 205,614,000<br \/>\n<strong>Elton John<\/strong> &#8211; 204,194,000<br \/>\n<strong>U2<\/strong> &#8211; 199,653,000<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that the members of BTS will focus on solo projects in the future surprised fans. HYBE, the company responsible for the group&#8217;s career, said the hiatus &#8220;<strong>isn&#8217;t real<\/strong>&#8220;. Now, it was <strong>Jungkook<\/strong>&#8216;s turn to reinforce the statement:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>We BTS are not going to split up. BTS will be forever<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS may be on an indefinite hiatus, but the South Korean boy group&#8217;s work has definitely made history and they&#8217;re among the top 50 best-selling artists in music industry history. With only 9 years of career, the South Korean group appears with more than 105 million equivalent units sold, between albums and singles, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":28245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-28239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}