'ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN' Trends As BTS Fans Seek Votes for Best Music Video at iHeartRadio Awards

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BTS fans have been rallying together to drum up support for the K-pop sensation ahead of the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards, for which the band are nominated in the Best Music Video category.

BTS has been nominated for their song "Boy With Luv" featuring the singer-songwriter Halsey. The group joins a string of other pop star nominees including K-pop girl band Blackpink (nominated for their song "Kill This Love"), Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber (for "I Don't Care"), Taylor Swift (for "ME!") as well as Ariana Grande (for "7 Rings").

BTS fans—collectively known as the Army—are also nominated in the Best Fan Army category, going up against the equally passionate fan bases of the aforementioned artists.

Both award categories are "socially voted," so they're awarded by public vote. BTS fans flooded social media with various posts to encourage more people to vote for the band using the term "ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN," which has been trending on Twitter.

Several fans have also been posting inspirational quotes that BTS members have shared in the past in praise of their solidarity as a team of seven.

"Please join us in mass voting for iheart..you can use ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN #BoyWithLuv #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards @BTS_twt," wrote @theARMYprint.

" 'Teamwork makes the dream work' 'what a relief we are seven, what a relief we are together.' 'the 7 years we have been together, always consists of 7 members of bts.' ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN #BoyWithLuv #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards (@BTS_twt)," wrote @taesqueenuwu.

"One dream, one goal, one team. Our one true seven everyone ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN #BoyWithLuv #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards @BTS_twt," wrote @mochimolalax.

please join us in mass voting for iheart..

you can use ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN #BoyWithLuv #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/94QeLWKdBL

— ????⁷ (@theARMYprint) January 23, 2020

"Let's go beyond 164 weeks, let's make it so hard to beat!!! We can do this tag @BTS_twt ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards #BoywithLuv," wrote @jhope_tw.

"STOP SCROLLING If you see this tweet. Pls RT and Rep " ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN " Lets go ARMY #BoyWithLuv #BestMusicVideo #iHeartAwards @BTS_twt," wrote @vblackswan_.

"I wish 7 of us will continue to do something together. We'll be enormously big at the end, I'll pray for that. Someday our glory days will come to an end but even that I believe the 7 of us will overcome it together."@BTS_twt Yoongi

ARMY SUPPORTS SEVEN https://t.co/NXknraLZKq

— ᴮᴱcestlavie_90?⁷ (@cestlavie9090) January 23, 2020

Earlier today, BTS fans caused a frenzy around an image of Grande at a rehearsal for the upcoming Grammy Awards, which takes place on Sunday, pictured with the group but without band member Yoongi.

Last November, fans expressed outrage as BTS were snubbed in this year's Grammy Award nominations, while other artists, including Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Lil Nas X were given multiple nods.

Voting for the band's latest nomination at the iHeartRadio Awards closes on March 23 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The awards will be held at The Shrine in Los Angeles on March 29 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT.

The new album by BTS—Map of the Soul: 7—is out on February 21.

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South Korean boy band BTS performs onstage during the KIIS FM's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at the Forum Los Angeles in Inglewood, California on December 6, 2019. Getty Images
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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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