New BTS album out 20th March it appears!

This is true and it's confirmed by the press release below. The album, currently untitled, will have 14 tracks. WW tour announcement on January 14 at midnight KST / January 13 at 3pm. GMT.

https://weverse.io/bts/notice/32916

Surely they're in a position to get their first UK #1 with a huge first week?

WW tour announcement.

More details will be revealed in the coming days, but HITS is reporting that they are performing (mostly) in stadiums and the scenario will be in 360°.

The tour will play stadiums, but full venue details have yet to be announced. Per reps, BTS will utilize a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design this time around.

Ooh, London in July 2026 is cool, but it's going to be expensive and too much craziness so never mind.

I'll just wait for their new stuff in two months' time or earlier. No doubt it's gonna blow up for at least a short while as usual.

ARIRANG is the title of their upcoming new album. As expected, tons of multiple versions available to pre-order.

'SWIM' highlighted. Probably means it's the lead track.

Not a bad album, but Merry Go Round is the only track I really actively liked, some Daft Punk vibes there to the production.

FYA and Swim are both pretty good too.

No.29 being essentially silence spun me out a bit until I read the explanation about its significance of it being the Sacred Bell of the Great King Seongdeok. I initially thought it was a mistake or John Cale impact.

Will the physical album be chart eligible, I saw it on sale for about £27 so guess it has some sort of extras with it?

Just received the boxset today, but did not unwrap it so far.

On first listen, I am really disappointed in this album. Found most of the tracks pretty forgettable or straight up hard to get through. Swim has grown on me after multiple listens, but is still not very exciting.

Hopefully the rest will grow on me, but sad there are not any big pop/catchy songs like Boy With Luv or Mikrokosmos to be found.

On 05/01/2026 at 23:57, Jessie Where said:

Surely they're in a position to get their first UK #1 with a huge first week?

Well I'm shocked this doesn't seem like it's going to happen. You'd have thought with their fanbase, the time they'd been away/hype around their comeback it'd be mammoth first week sales effortlessly gliding to #1 but nope.

Just listened to this album. Absolutely terrible, 'Swim' is passable I suppose but not one good song on it other than that!

Really enjoying "Body to Body" recently. I find this album is their most consistent/best overall, although the highs not as high as some of their previous singles ("Fake Love", "Dynamite", "Boy With Luv", "Permission to Dance", "Butter", "My Universe").