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There’s no breaks on the K-pop train.

K-pop boy band BTS has become one of the biggest things since sliced bread in the global music industry. Just last month, their album “Map of Soul: Journey” sold nearly a million copies worldwide in just two days, eventually setting the current record to beat for 2020 music sales with 4.02 million copies sold. Their social media presence is also gigantic, with their Twitter account garnering 28.5 million followers. Still, despite their success, it could perhaps be argued that their success is mostly confined to their home turf of South Korea. After their newest milestone, though, that’s been pretty definitively disproven.

With the release of their Hot 100 songs chart today, music site Billboard has placed BTS at the head of the worldwide pack, with their new all-English single “Dynamite” sitting at the pinnacle of the ranking. The digital sales of “Dynamite,” currently around 265,000 downloads, are already within striking distance of the first-week sales record set last year by Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” which garnered 353,000 downloads.

After the news went out, BTS received an outpouring of congratulations from their fanbase, nicknamed “ARMY.” Multiple Twitter users retweeted an old interview with one of BTS’ members, Suga, in which he stated that he hoped to be number one on the Billboard chart someday, and praised him and the group for reaching their goal.

Credit: Billboard Charts via Twitter

The members of BTS have repeatedly thanked their fans for their support, with one member, Jimin, saying that the “tears kept coming” and that he “didn’t know what to say.”

This incredible accomplishment has even drawn praise from South Korea’s own President, Moon Jae-in, who said BTS had achieved a “splendid feat.”

“After having topped the Billboard 200 main album chart four times, they have now reached No 1 on both charts,” President Moon said. “The song Dynamite has been composed to give a message of comfort… it will bring consolation to Koreans suffering from the national crisis caused by Covid-19.”