BTS confirms return, announcing new music and a world tour coming in 2026

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 1:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Their reunion? It's creaseless similar butter. The K-pop septet BTS volition instrumentality successful outpouring 2026 with a caller medium and satellite tour.

Members Jin, RM, V, Jimin, J-Hope, Jung Kook and Suga made the announcement Tuesday during a livestream connected Weverse, an online instrumentality level owned by BTS absorption institution Hybe. It was the archetypal clip each 7 members person broadcast unrecorded unneurotic since September 2022.

"We'll beryllium releasing a caller BTS medium successful the outpouring of adjacent year. Starting successful July, each 7 of america volition statesman moving intimately unneurotic connected caller music," the set said successful a statement. "Since it volition beryllium a radical album, it volition bespeak each member's thoughts and ideas. We're approaching the medium with the aforesaid mindset we had erstwhile we archetypal started."

According to a property release, the set volition beryllium successful the United States this period to statesman moving connected caller music.

The 2026 medium volition people their archetypal since 2022's anthology, Proof, their 2021 Japanese compilation album, BTS, the Best, and their past workplace album, Be, released successful 2020.

They besides announced a satellite tour, their archetypal successful astir 4 years. The quality arrives a fewer weeks aft BTS superstars RM, V, Jimin and Jung Kook were discharged from South Korea's subject aft fulfilling their mandatory service.

In South Korea, each able-bodied men aged 18 to 28 are required by instrumentality to execute 18 to 21 months of subject work nether a conscription strategy meant to deter aggression from rival North Korea. Six of the group's 7 members served successful the army, portion Suga, the past to return, fulfilled his work arsenic a societal work agent, an alternate to subject service.

Jin, the oldest BTS member, was discharged successful June 2024. J-Hope was discharged successful October.

South Korea's instrumentality gives peculiar exemptions to athletes, classical and accepted musicians, and ballet and different dancers if they person obtained apical prizes successful definite competitions and are assessed to person enhanced nationalist prestige. K-pop stars and different entertainers aren't taxable to specified privileges.

However, successful 2020, BTS postponed their work aft South Korea's National Assembly revised its Military Service Act, allowing K-pop stars to hold their enlistment until property 30.