It’s a brand new period, new search for BTS.
The Ok-pop superstars return subsequent Friday, March 20 with Arirang, for what is going to mark the group’s fifth album and first full-band launch in six years.
Ahead of the massive day, BigHit Entertainment shares the LP’s art work, which sees RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook wanting dapper, and quite severe, in fits.
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All grown up. Ready for enterprise. Each member of the septet will get a closeup, too.
The septet has beforehand posted the 14-song tracklist for Arirang, the followup to 2020’s Be, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2020 and housed the Billboard Hot 100-topping hits “Life Goes On” and “Dynamite.”
The mature new search for BTS is suitable for this Ok-pop juggernaut, which assembles after its members final yr accomplished their service within the South Korean army, opening the door for one more album cycle.
The lads are with out query one of many giants of Ok-pop, with six No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart, together with the 2022 anthology Proof, and 6 No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100. BTS was awarded the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year twice, in 2020 and 2021, turning into the primary act to win consecutively.
The long-awaited comeback shall be accompanied with a stay expertise, BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG, which is able to stream stay from Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, South Korea, the next day, on March 21.
Arirang takes its title from a standard Korean people track. “Transcending time and generations, the song has long been associated with emotions of connection, distance, and reunion,” reads a press launch on the gathering, issued by BigHit in January. The recording is alleged to be “a deeply reflective body of work” that explores the pop superstars’ “identity and roots,” the assertion continues.
Check out the Arirang art work under.
