For me: In the SOOP season 1, SIN car – Jin was singing 'Don't Worry; by Lee Juck (from Reply 1988). I had never actually heard that song before, but the 30-ish seconds of Jin singing it got me curious, so I looked it up.
It immediately became one of my all time favorite songs, my gosh. But, telling people how I came across it is always a bit silly
What is your 'I can't believe I found this group/song this way because of BTS' stories?
They made me download Fortnite just to watch their Fortnite Dynamite concert.
I tried playing a bit to see if I like it, like 3 or 4 for fights and got killed in seconds, then I uninstalled it.
Talos (Rip), after Jungkook used his song “To each his own” in GCF Helisinki, I found myself checking out his music and he really was an incredible artist. So many heartwrenchingly beautiful tunes
Oh it’s so crazy, I’ve found so many of my favourite artists through BTS. I’m a really big fan of Honne (they produced a few songs for Namjoon’s solo work) and I got to see them in concert a few years ago which was great. I also discovered Busker Busker through them somehow (I can’t remember specifically, if anyone can remember where they mention them, pls let me know) and they’re now my favourite indie Korean band.
Possibly the most random – I actually became a fan of Megan thee Stallion because of BTS around 2018/2019. I discovered her because people were making fan edits of the members to her song “Big Ole Freak”, with captions like Namjoon thee Stallion etc 😂 She’s been in my Spotify top 5 since then, and it was such a full circle moment when she finally collabed with them. I’m really glad that she did another song with Namjoon after the Butter remix, I’m hoping they’ll continue making music together in the future.
Amazing Tomato.
Way too many times.
😶
I heard a song from them from a Yuri on Ice amv. They sang the same song on Dick Clark New years eve in 2019. I was hooked after that
Emotional Oranges. Namjoon dropped a track rec somewhere years ago. They’re one of my favorite, comfiest go-to artists now
Nearly everything I know and like about KPop is BTS adjacent. Is that weird?
For example, I have a playlist called “KPop” but it’s just 99.99997% BTS songs, with random SVT, The Rose, TxT thrown in. And I dunno if this is a weird listen or not but there’s also a sprinkling of Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and Usher thrown in, specifically No Limit from the latter because I read or watched something and Jimin mentioned he liked that song.
I actually have 2 answers. The earliest one is **Jinusean Phone Number** because the guys had a hard time guessing the song from Gayo episode 5 (the song was playing in the background and it sounded catchy). And the second one is **Davichi 8282** when Jin, Jung Kook, Hobi, and Tae were singing it in the car in BV4. Jin belting that high note at the end was pure heaven 💜
Tadow from Mesego, J-Hope ” dance ” to it at a table in “HOPE ON THE STREE”. I also know a lot of artist because of their cooperation with BTS, Jack Harlow, Megan thee Stallion, Usher and Umi.