"No. 1 on the Billboard 200.. Thank you so much for letting us see such a good news as soon as we woke up," wrote Kim Seok-jin, better known as Jin, on the BTS Twitter account. "It's amazing and so surreal. Thank you to all who have listened to our music! We will continue to work hard!"
It's also the first foreign-language album to top the Billboard 200 in over 12 years -- since Il Divo's 2006 album "Ancora."
K-pop emerged in South Korea in the early 1990s, and labels such as JYP, DSP and YG, built the nation's pop industry from the ground up by creating training schemes that churned out pop stars for music, soap operas and movies.
