Music Intro for June 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, As of this writing, BTS has wrapped on two back-to-back live shows at Seoul Olympic Stadium. I haven’t seen official numbers released yet but the band mentioned during today’s performance that they’d heard that at least 800,000 people had bought tickets, and I imagine By Lainey • Jun 14, 2021 09:46 am
Music Intro for June 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is the current #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, its second week at the top of the chart. Tracking for this past week has ended, will be interesting to see if they can go three in a row, which would be a new milestone By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 09:42 am
Music Intro for June 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is currently the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth #1 in nine months. But can it go two for two? Last year “Dynamite” earned two back-to-back #1s upon its release which is what BTS and their team are hoping for By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 09:32 am
Music Intro for June 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s official: BTS’s “Butter” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth Hot 100 #1 hit in just nine months after “Dynamite”, “Savage Love BTS Remix”, and “Life Goes On”. They are now the fastest group to reach #1 this many times since By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 09:38 am
Music Intro for May 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, The iHeartRadio Music Awards were last night and it was The Weeknd and BTS leading the way with the most wins. BTS took the named Best Music Video, Best Fan Army, and Favourite Choreography. So it’s been a big week for the band, because they’ve once By Lainey • May 28, 2021 09:13 am
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Music BTS Will “Butter” Everything BTS is about to drop their new song, “Butter”, in just three days. For their ARMY, that means non-stop promotional photos and other small sips over the last few weeks leading up to the release. And for everyone else it means …get ready, even if you’re not on the By Lainey • May 18, 2021 03:06 pm
TV Updates Friends…and BTS A surprise today, and it was done quite cleverly: an update on the Friends reunion. It had previously been reported that they’d been working on it, after a delay of nearly a year, but there was no information about when, like how long HBO Max would hold it before By Lainey • May 13, 2021 03:56 pm
Music BTS + Coldplay? Coldplay has released a new song, “Higher Power”, produced by Max Martin. The song and video premiered in space from the International Space Station with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Here it is: I’ve only listened to it twice all the way through so it hasn’t had time to By Lainey • May 07, 2021 11:35 am
Top Reads BTS and Conan O’Brien Earlier this week Conan O’Brien announced that after eleven seasons, he’s going off the air on TBS. He’ll be doing another show for HBO Max but he’s moving on from the late night format he’s been a part of for almost 30 years. Conan announces By Lainey • May 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Music Intro for April 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, I don’t think it’s news that with the way algorithms work on social media, sometimes our feeds can make us believe that the thing we care about is the thing that everyone else cares about. Yesterday I heard someone say that the Oscar producers’ decision to By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 09:02 am
Style BTS + LV Earlier this week, McDonald’s announced a global partnership with BTS. To end the week, Louis Vuitton has just confirmed their new House Ambassadors: This is BTS + LV. But also BTS + Virgil Abloh, LV’s Men’s Artistic Director. I’m excited to see what the Bangtan and Virgil collaboration By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 01:09 pm
BTS Lizzo posing I would like to appreciate Lizzo today. Because while there are certainly celebrities, many of them, who can’t stand the paparazzi, and they have valid reasons for it, there are other celebrities who aren’t bothered by the paps. And don’t bother pretending they don’t like the By Lainey • Apr 13, 2021 09:45 am
Top Reads The House that BTS Built First, a quick recap on BTS-related business affairs over the last six months or so before we get into this major music industry news. Last fall, just weeks after BTS earned their first and second #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite” and the “Savage Love” remix, their company, By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 02:45 pm
Equality Issues BTS Supports #StopAsianHate This past weekend, there were anti-Asian racism protests in several major cities across Canada and the United States. In Los Angeles, a youth group performed towards the end of the rally to BTS’s “Dynamite”. For some time now, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 02:45 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 BTS’s Endless Grammys Generosity If you’ve been paying attention to the Grammys, especially this past week, as noise about the Grammys’ lack of transparency and glacial rate of change were dominating the headlines, it shouldn’t have been a shock that BTS did not win on their first Grammy nomination. For the Recording By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 04:45 pm
