BTS Is The Most Tweeted About Account This Year Globally

In addition to data from Korea and Asia Pacific, Twitter released their overall year-end analysis, which declared BTS (@bts_twt) as the most tweeted about account in 2018 globally.

365 days.
125 million hashtags.
500 million GIFs.
More @BTS_twt mentions than we can count.#ThisHappened on Twitter in 2018: pic.twitter.com/543gK41qQf

— Data (@XData) December 5, 2018

Narrowing it down a little more to just musicians and tweet in the U.S., BTS still remains in the top, beating out Kanye West for first place. The exact rankings are as follows:

1.  BTS (@BTS_twt)

2. Kanye West (@KanyeWest)

3. Drake (@Drake)

4. EXO (@weareoneEXO)

5. Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande)

6. Cardi B (@iamCardiB)

7. Beyonce (@Beyonce)

8. Jimin Park (@jiminpark07)

9. Nicki Minaj (@NickiMinaj)

10. Rihanna (@Rihanna)

For bragging rights, here are 2018's most Tweeted about musicians in the US:

1️⃣ @BTS_twt
2️⃣ @KanyeWest
3️⃣ @Drake
4️⃣ @weareoneEXO
5️⃣ @ArianaGrande
6️⃣ @iamCardiB
7️⃣ @Beyonce
8️⃣ @jiminpark07
9️⃣ @NickiMinaj
🔟 @Rihanna

— Music (@Music) December 5, 2018

Twitter Communications team clarified that “BTS’s Jimin was in fact the 8th most mentioned musician in the US, but an error [on] our side attributed the wrong handle to him.”

https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1070415315593506827

Most liked Tweet of the year is also from BTS, which features member J-Hope taking on the #InMyFeelingsChallenge. This was also the Golden Tweet of the Asia Pacific region.

The #InMyFeelingsChallenge was hard to miss this year. Pair that with @BTS_twt and you have yourself the most liked Tweet from 2018:https://t.co/oJvclyWkFc

— Music (@Music) December 5, 2018