BTS announces Fifth album and world tour
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BTS full-group comeback heralds historic pop moment
BTS (BTS) full-group comeback draws international media attention. BTS will release their fifth studio album on March 20 and embark on a large-scale world tour afterward. This marks the group’s first full-group activities in approximately three years and nine months since their anthology album *Proof* in June 2022.
According to a note shared to social media by the entertainment company BigHit Music, the mega popular group will return on March 20. That's after a nearly four-year hiatus, as all seven members of BTS — RM, Jin, Jimin, V, Suga, Jung Kook and j-hope — completed South Korea’s mandatory military service.
BTS is returning from a multi-year hiatus with a new album followed by a world tour, according to Reuters . “March 20 Comeback Confirmed,” the K-pop group’s agency Big Hit Music said in a post Thursday, marking the boy band’s first studio album since 2020’s Be .