Even as late as March of last year, K-pop boy band BTS didn't appear to be interested in recording their songs in any language other than Korean and Japanese. The group's lead singer, RM told Entertainment Weekly that it's all part of their drive to stay true to who they are. "I don't want to compare, but I think it's even harder as an Asian group. A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals. But they're just goals — we don't want to change our identity or our genuineness to get the number one. Like if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these other things, then that's not BTS. We'll do everything, we'll try. But if we couldn't get number one or number five, that's okay."
Back then, the group was also talking about attempting to get to Number 1 on the HOT music chart in their native language because, well, if anyone could do it, they could."I think it's 100 percent possible that a song sung entirely in Korean could crack the top of the Hot 100. I firmly believe that, and I really firmly believe that BTS can be the group that can do that. It's going to pave the way for a lot of other groups, which they've already been doing—and when that happens, we're all gonna celebrate," band member Aoki said.
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