Wings is the second studio album by South Korean boy group BTS. The album was released on October 10, 2016 and contains 15 tracks, with "Blood Sweat & Tears" as its first single, and seven solo songs recorded by the members.
It charted on the Billboard 200 at number 26, making it the highest charting and best selling K-pop album on the chart; and the first to spend more than one week on the chart. The album's lead single, "Blood Sweat & Tears", became the group's first domestic number one hit on Gaon Digital Chart. It broke South Korean Gaon chart records as the highest selling album recorded on its monthly and yearly charts.
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The sales for the album reached 500,000 copies on its first week of pre-orders. It became the highest charting K-pop album to land on Billboard 200 with 16,000 copies sold, with 11,000 as traditional album sales. Furthermore, the album spent a second week on Billboard 200, making them the first K-pop act to spend a second week on the chart with the same album. In the two weeks it sold 22,000 copies (Of that sum, nearly 13,000 were in traditional album sales). In its third week, it moved another 1,000 copies spending another week as the highest-selling K-pop album in America. They also become the third K-pop act to chart on Canadian Hot 100 ranking at #86, which was a new best for a K-pop group. BTS was also revealed to have topped Billboard 's World Albums Chart and World Digital Songs Chart for week of October 29. They also charted on YouTube Music Global Top 100 - 17th on the video chart, and 14th on the tracks chart. The album also managed to make it to the U.K. Official Albums Charts, at #62, making history as the first Korean act to do so. The album debuted at #1 at United World Chart with 367,000 copies sold globally in its first week.
Shortly after release, the group achieved an "all kill" on the South Korean music charts. On the Korean Gaon Chart, both the album and "Blood Sweat & Tears" debuted at number one on the albums and singles charts, respectively. All 15 songs on the album charted in the top 50 of the Gaon Singles Chart, garnering over one million digital downloads and over eight million streams. It also broke Gaon Album chart records as the highest selling album recorded on its monthly and yearly charts.
Shortly after release, the group achieved an "all kill" on the South Korean music charts. On the Korean Gaon Chart, both the album and "Blood Sweat & Tears" debuted at number one on the albums and singles charts, respectively. All 15 songs on the album charted in the top 50 of the Gaon Singles Chart, garnering over one million digital downloads and over eight million streams. It also broke Gaon Album chart records as the highest selling album recorded on its monthly and yearly charts.
At 12:00 KST, October 10, the official music video for "Blood Sweat & Tears" was released.
The six minute video features Rap Monster reciting from a passage of Hermann Hesse’s Demian, which was an inspiration for the album's concept, and does not appear on the album version of the song.
Within 24 hours of the music video's release, it reached 6.3 million views, setting a new record.
The six minute video features Rap Monster reciting from a passage of Hermann Hesse’s Demian, which was an inspiration for the album's concept, and does not appear on the album version of the song.
Within 24 hours of the music video's release, it reached 6.3 million views, setting a new record.
Also on October 13, it was reported that "Blood, Sweat & Tears" had become the fastest K-pop music video by a group to reach 10 million views. According to reports, this was achieved in less than 42 hours - almost half the amount of time taken for their previous record "Fire", which took 72 hours.
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