RM Teases New BTS Music Is Coming Along ‘Really Well,’ Says ARMY Has Much to ‘Look Forward To’
BTS‘ comeback is about to be dynamite. According to RM, who gave fans an update on the band’s fast-approaching comeback, he and bandmates Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook have been hard at work on new music — and their diligence is apparently paying off.
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In a post to Weverse shared Tuesday (Nov. 11), the band leader wrote that “above all,” the music the septet is recording is “coming out really well!!”
“Everyone’s trying,” he added in Korean, per Weverse’s English translation. “Please look forward to it.”
Fans have known for some time that new BTS music was in the works, with the boy band reuniting on camera in July after taking about two years apart while fulfilling South Korean military requirements. At the time, the members revealed that they not only had a new album planned for 2026, but a world tour as well.
In October, RM gave more details about the timeline of his band’s official return. “We have to keep preparing for the album — we’ll shoot the album photos and film the music video,” he said at W Korea’s Love Your W event in Seoul. “Please look forward to late March.”
Though there’s no doubt the Bangtan Boys can do it, topping their last musical era will be no small task. RM and his bandmates became global phenoms in 2020 when they scored three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 that year alone, with album Be and 2022 compilation album Proof both peaking atop the Billboard 200.
But, as RM pointed out while delivering the keynote speech at this year’s APEC CEO Summit in South Korea, shattering expectations is exactly what BTS is known for. “BTS first started to go outside Korea about 10 years ago,” he said at the event. “At that time, the music of BTS was quickly called ‘non-English, foreign culture.’ Trying to get on mainstream media through our music was like doing an experiment and a huge challenge. It was a test to see if ‘music in Korean can work on the global stage.’”
“We overcame those barriers,” RM continued at the time. “ARMY was the force that broke down those barriers. They use our music as the medium to carry out conversations that cross borders and languages.”
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