BTS, this generation’s most popular boy band in the world, bagged the Best Group and Best K-pop categories at the recently-concluded MTV Video Music Awards as expected.

In the new category Best K-pop, the only Korean Billboard chart-topper bested Blackpink, Monsta X, EXO, NCT 127 and their little brother group TXT.

RM, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Suga, Jin, and Jungkook were absent during the ceremony as all of them are on vacation, their first free time since they debuted in 2013.

.@bts_bighit wins BEST GROUP at the #VMAs 🌹 pic.twitter.com/iKdzplycXM

— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 27, 2019

CONGRATS @bts_bighit on BEST K-POP #VMAs 🏆 pic.twitter.com/NO3sTVdzKJ

— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 26, 2019