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5 revealing takeaways from the BTS biography 'Beyond the Story'

From left, V, SUGA, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and j-hope of BTS attend the 2021 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 21, 2021, in Los Angeles.

The K-pop juggernaut known as BTS has dominated the American music scene in an unprecedented way. The group's seven members — RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook — have performed at the Grammys and the American Music Awards, and most of their music videos have over 1 billion views on YouTube.

The band released "My Universe" with Coldplay, whose frontman, Chris Martin, seemed to speak for billions when he said, "It's very special to me that the most popular artist in the world speaks Korean ... and it just feels very hopeful to me, in terms of thinking of the world as one family."

": 10-Year Record of BTS" is the first biography of the group, published in

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