{"id":2219207,"date":"2026-01-01T21:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2219207"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:07:43","slug":"bts-to-return-with-new-album-on-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bts-to-return-with-new-album-on-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS to return with new album on March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>                    <!-- 20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; --><\/p>\n<div class=\"topArea\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                Published: 01 Jan. 2026, 07:57<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                    Updated: 01 Jan. 2026, 16:03<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <!--\/\/20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; end --><\/p>\n<p>Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body_container\">\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">                              <span class=\"mask\"\/>                  <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">BTS [YONHAP]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        K-pop megagroup BTS will return with a new album on March 20, its agency BigHit Music said Thursday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The album marks the septet\u2019s first release in three years and nine months since \u201cProof\u201d in June 2022.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The comeback date had already been hinted at in handwritten letters sent to fans\u2019 homes, which expressed gratitude for their continued support. The letters were stamped with the date \u201c2026.03.20.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0                     <\/p>\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Letter sent by BTS to their fans [BIGHIT MUSIC]\" src=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/data\/photo\/2026\/01\/01\/a55baad6-f7df-4ce1-85bd-b600ca993f62.jpg\"\/>          <span class=\"mask\"\/>                  <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Letter sent by BTS to their fans [BIGHIT MUSIC]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        \u201cWith the release of a new album on March 20, [BTS] will embark on a large-scale world tour,\u201d BigHit said in a statement.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cDetails about the new album and the concerts will be announced through official channels at a later date.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   All seven members completed their mandatory military service in 2025, with Suga being the last to be discharged in June.                     <\/p>\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Letter sent by BTS to their fans [BIGHIT MUSIC]\" src=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/data\/photo\/2026\/01\/01\/2b609bca-e38d-418f-8920-bb5c3d5dee3c.jpg\"\/>          <span class=\"mask\"\/>                  <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Letter sent by BTS to their fans [BIGHIT MUSIC]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BY JIN EUN-SOO [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"503a393e7e35253e233f3f103a3f3f3e37313e377e333f7e3b22\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p>                    <!-- promoted &#49884;&#51089; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- promoted &#45149;--><\/p>\n<p>                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; 250813 --><br \/>\n                    <!-- world &#49440;&#51201;&#50857; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; &#51333;&#47308; -->\n                <\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ko_KR\/all.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source koreajoongangdaily.joins.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 01 Jan. 2026, 07:57 Updated: 01 Jan. 2026, 16:03 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI BTS [YONHAP] K-pop megagroup BTS will return with a new album on March 20, its agency BigHit Music said Thursday. \u00a0 The album marks the septet\u2019s first release in three years and nine months since \u201cProof\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2219208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BTS-to-return-with-new-album-on-March-20.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219209,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219207\/revisions\/2219209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}