BTS Latest Album Release Date: K-Pop Band’s Comeback ‘Wings: You Never Walk Alone’ To Be Released Next Month
South Korean K-pop boy band BTS, or Bangtan Boys, has finally revealed the release date for its latest album “Wings: You Never Walk Alone.” The band’s management agency announced Monday that the band will make its much-awaited comeback on Feb. 13.
The new album is expected to be an extended version, as well as follow-up, to “Wings” — BTS’ previous blockbuster that released in October — South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency quoted the management agency, Big Hit Entertainment, as saying. “Wings” sold 751,000 copies to become the highest selling album in the country last year.
The group members — Jungkook, Suga, Jimin, V, Rap Monster, J-Hope and Jin — reportedly played a role in writing the songs and producing the upcoming album, pre-orders for which will begin Jan. 25.
BTS had a spectacular 2016 and won awards and laurels both locally — at music award shows like the Mnet Asian Music Awards, 31st Golden Disk Awards, and the Seoul Music Awards — and internationally — by becoming the only K-pop band to feature on Billboard Social 50 list, and by making an appearance on Billboard’s World Album’s chart.
The Bangtan Boys will also embark on a world tour, called the “2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III The Wings Tour,” this year. The performances take off at the Gocheok Sky Dome in western Seoul on Feb. 18-19, following which the boy band will perform in Chile, Brazil and the United States. Dates for concerts at Newark, New Jersey and Anaheim, California have already been released.
The band also believes in giving back to the community that has shown the boys so much love, and BTS and its management agency reportedly donated 100 million won ($85,034) to an association of families who lost their loved ones in the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster, which claimed over 300 lives.
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