NEW YORK (AP) — Their reunion? It is clean like butter. The Okay-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a brand new album and world tour.
Members Jin, RM, V, Jimin, J-Hope, Jung Kook and Suga made the announcement Tuesday throughout a livestream on Weverse, a web based fan platform owned by BTS administration firm Hybe. It was the primary time all seven members have broadcast dwell collectively since September 2022.
“We’ll be releasing a new BTS album in the spring of next year. Starting in July, all seven of us will begin working closely together on new music,” the band stated in an announcement. “Since it will be a group album, it will reflect each member’s thoughts and ideas. We’re approaching the album with the same mindset we had when we first started.”
In keeping with a press launch, the band might be in the USA this month to start engaged on new music.
The 2026 album will mark their first since 2022’s anthology, “Proof,” their 2021 Japanese compilation album “BTS, the Best,” and their final studio album, “Be,” launched in 2020.
Additionally they introduced a world tour, their first in practically 4 years. The information arrives just a few weeks after BTS superstars RM, V, Jimin and Jung Kook have been discharged from South Korea’s navy after fulfilling their necessary service.
In South Korea, all able-bodied males aged 18 to twenty-eight are required by legislation to carry out 18-21 months of navy service underneath a conscription system meant to discourage aggression from rival North Korea. Six of the group’s seven members served within the military, whereas Suga, the final to return, fulfilled his obligation as a social service agent, a substitute for navy service.
Jin, the oldest BTS member, was discharged in June 2024. J-Hope was discharged in October.
South Korea’s legislation offers particular exemptions to athletes, classical and conventional musicians, and ballet and different dancers if they’ve obtained high prizes in sure competitions and are assessed to have enhanced nationwide status. Okay-pop stars and different entertainers aren’t topic to such privileges. Nevertheless, in 2020, BTS postponed their service after South Korea’s Nationwide Meeting revised its Navy Service Act, permitting Okay-pop stars to delay their enlistment till age 30.
