The group BTS proved themselves to be the greatest influence of K-pop by winning ten awards at the 2022 Japan Golden Disc Awards.

According to the list of winners of the '36th Japan Gold Disc Awards' announced by the Recording Association of Japan on March 14th, BTS won 10 trophies in 9 categories, including 'Best Asian Artist.'

BTS won eight awards at this awards ceremony last year, setting the record for the most awards as a foreign artist. This year, the record was also broken by the group again after they took home ten awards.

With this, BTS took the award for the 'Best Asian Artist' category for four consecutive years.

In addition, the album 'BTS, THE BEST,' released in Japan in June last year, won awards in the 'Album of the Year' and 'Best 3 Album' categories.

The hit song "Butter," which hit the world last year, won four awards such as 'Song of the Year By Download,' 'Best 5 Song By Download,' 'Song of the Year By Streaming,' and 'Best 5 Song by Streaming.'

In 'Best 5 Songs by Streaming', "Permission to Dance," released in July last year, was also on the award list, and BTS won two trophies in this category.

The song "My Universe," in collaboration with Coldplay, won the pop song category of 'Song of the Year by Download.'

The DVD containing the live online concert 'BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E' held in October 2020 was selected as the winner in the 'Music Video of the Year' category.

BTS said, "It's thanks to ARMY (BTS fandom) who always give us great love to receive this prestigious award." 

Meanwhile, The Japan Gold Disc Awards is a prestigious awards ceremony hosted by the Recording Association of Japan and selects artists and works that have contributed to the development of the record industry during the year. The winners of each category are determined according to the sales performance of albums and videos released in the past year.