BTS earns a Guinness World Record for best-selling album in South Korea

K-pop boy band BTS broke another Guinness World Records, this time for the "best-selling album" title in South Korea.

BTS' latest album "Map of the Soul: Persona" sold 3,399,302 copies in their country as of May 2019, which earned them another record, Guinness announced.

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The K-pop band has achieved the best-selling album (South Korea) with their new release "Map of the Soul: Persona" after selling 3,399,302 copies ????

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— GuinnessWorldRecords (@GWR) June 26, 2019

The group's seven-track EP, released just last April, sold a whopping 3,228,032 copies on its first month alone.

BTS beat the previous record in 1995 by South Korean artist Kim Gun-mo for his third studio album Mis-Encounter which sold 3.3 million copies.

The hit song "Boy with Luv" from the same BTS album, is also a record-holder: its music video generated 74.6 million views in one day, earning the Guinness World Records titles for "most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours" and "most viewed YouTube music video in 24 hours by K-pop group."

Guinness said BTS broke their own record in that category, which they had set in 2018 for the music video of their single IDOL which garnered 45 million views on its first day on YouTube.

Other than that, BTS also set records on social media for having the most Twitter engagements and most Twitter engagements for a music group. — Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News