Elon Musk he is the richest man in the world. Owner of Tesla, SpaceX, creator of dozens of companies and products and with a fortune valued at 253.4 billion dollars with which he can buy whatever he wants, even K-Pop youth music group, bts.
Just as he is legally facing Twitter Inc. for trying to withdraw his $44 billion offer to buy the social media company, a video of the 51-year-old South African businessman has gone viral, in what appears to be a cut clip. from an interview, stating that he wants to buy the group from HYBE, formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment.
Composed of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook, BTS is considered to be the most important K-Pop band in the world, with the highest number of sales in the history of South Korea (more than 30 million). Time called them “Leaders of the new generation” and they were cataloged as the “Princes of Pop”.
His awards include six American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, Grammy nominations, among others. And all of that could happen at the hands of Elon Musk.
How much is BTS worth?
According to a study by the Hyundai Research Institute, published in the South China Morning Post, BTS is worth more than 36 billion dollarsrepresenting a lot of money for the music industry in South Korea.
The figure is not a problem for Musk, who in the video that is viralized on the different social media platforms says verbatim: “I want to buy BTS, they are very popular now. Don’t you mind, ARMY?”.
ARMY, which means “army” in Spanish, is the name of the fandom of the BTS group, to which Elon Musk asks permission in the video to buy the group.
Here’s a little dose of BTS alongside Coldplay on “My Universe.”