NEW YORK— Their get-together? It’s smooth like butter. The K-pop septet BTS will certainly return in springtime 2026 with a brand-new cd and globe trip.
Participants Jin, RM, V, Jimin, J-Hope, Jung Kook and Suga made the news Tuesday throughout a livestream on Weverse, an on the internet follower system possessed by BTS monitoring firm Hybe. It was the very first time all 7 participants have actually transmitted cohabit considering that September 2022.
” We’ll be launching a brand-new BTS cd in the springtime of following year. Beginning in July, all 7 people will certainly start functioning very closely with each other on brand-new songs,” the band stated in a declaration. “Given that it will certainly be a team cd, it will certainly show each participant’s ideas and concepts. We’re coming close to the cd with the very same state of mind we had when we initially began.”
According to a news release, the band will certainly remain in the USA this month to start working with brand-new songs.
The 2026 cd will certainly note their very first considering that 2022’s compilation, “Evidence,” their 2021 Japanese collection cd “BTS, the most effective,” and their last workshop cd, “Be,” launched in 2020.
They likewise revealed a globe trip, their very first in virtually 4 years. The information shows up a couple of weeks after BTS super stars RM, V, Jimin and Jung Kook were released from South Korea’s armed forces after satisfying their obligatory solution.
In South Korea, all able-bodied guys matured 18 to 28 are needed by regulation to do 18-21 months of armed forces solution under a conscription system suggested to discourage aggressiveness from competing North Korea. 6 of the team’s 7 participants offered in the military, while Suga, the last to return, satisfied his responsibility as a social solution representative, an option to armed forces solution.
Jin, the earliest BTS participant, was released in June 2024. J-Hope was released in October.
South Korea’s regulation provides unique exceptions to professional athletes, timeless and typical artists, and ballet and various other professional dancers if they have actually acquired leading rewards in particular competitors and are analyzed to have actually improved nationwide stature. K-pop celebrities and various other performers aren’t based on such opportunities. Nevertheless, in 2020, BTS delayed their solution after South Korea’s National Setting up changed its Armed force Solution Act, enabling K-pop celebrities to postpone their enlistment up until age 30.
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