BTS just beat Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Billboards

BTS have almost 10 million fans on Twitter alone.
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BTS just beat Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Billboards
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock (8826961s) BTS Billboard Music Awards, Press room, Las Vegas, USA - 21 May 2017 Credit: Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock

This boyband just became the first K-pop group to ever win a Billboard Music Awards.

BTS beat the likes of Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande in the fan-voted category, walking away with the title of Top Social Artist.

Fans of BTS pretty much went crazy on Twitter, and #BTSBBMAs started trending.

Here's the full speech given by BTS, if you can hear anything through all that screaming.

"We still cannot believe we're standing here on this stage at the Billboard music awards...we feel honoured to be in this category with all these great artists right in front of us," says band member Rap Monster on stage, before thanking fans in Korean and English.

BTS, which stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan or Bulletproof Boy Scouts, has seven members -- Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook.

The boys have some 9.7 million followers across two of their official Twitter accounts, and some 7 million more across Facebook and Instagram.

The award for Top Social Artist was one of two fan-voted categories at the Billboard Music Awards, with the other being the Billboard Chart Achievement Award.

The band, which is incredibly successful in Korea, made their debut in 2013 and has gone on to release four studio albums -- though none in English ... yet.

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LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 21: Music group BTS accepts Top Social Artist onstage during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena on May 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images

BTS is the first group and second artist from Korea to win an award at the BBMAs, with Psy of Gangnam Style fame becoming the first ever Korean artist to win in 2013 for Top Streaming Song.

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Yvette Tan

Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.

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