BTS to release new album with 4 million pre-orders
SEOUL, South Korea — K-pop superstars BTS were releasing their new album Friday, breaking records even before it came out as the country's most pre-ordered album of all time, with its lead single the first track to make its debut on video app
BTS — or Bangtan
Their latest effort, "Map of the Soul: 7", was launching worldwide at 6 pm Friday South Korean
The digit is a reference to the number of members in the band, and the years since they made their debut.
The group rolled out a 30-second preview of lead single "ON"
They are the first band to introduce a single via
"Guys I'm so excited and nervous and probably gonna skip a few minutes of my biology lesson and listen to Mots: 7 at the toilet," one fan posted on Twitter.
The song "ON", is "like a diary of our past seven years", BTS member RM told Apple Music.
"We stumble from time to time but we got back up... It's like a declaration that we have admitted our destiny."
The collection is already the most-
"We
"In 2013 we had a performance in front of 300 people, 500 people. But now we are doing stadium tours, so everything's got bigger and happier."
Another Twitter fan posted: "Finally it's coming and I'm so proud of Bangtan. We will break records again and we will be even stronger together."
But one dark cloud on the band's otherwise stellar horizon has emerged: a high-profile concert initially scheduled for March 8 in Daegu has
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