{"id":548885,"date":"2026-03-18T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:19:08","slug":"bts-will-perform-two-songs-on-the-tonight-show-in-late-night-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548885\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Will Perform Two Songs on &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217; in Late-Night Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The band will perform two songs and sit down with host Jimmy Fallon for an interview on March 25 to celebrate the release of its comeback album, Arirang, out March 20<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bts\" data-tag=\"bts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTS<\/a> will celebrate the release of their upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bts-album-tour-comeback-everything-we-know-1235498818\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comeback<\/a> album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-arirang-track-list-1235524160\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arirang<\/a>, with a grand return to late-night television. The band will perform two songs and sit down for an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Tonight Show<\/a> Starring Jimmy Fallon in the days following the album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBTS\u2019 first Tonight Show appearance in nearly five years will air on March 25 and 26. The first episode to run will include the interview and one song, while the other performance will be saved for the following night. It\u2019s the same double-performance schedule the show deployed in 2021, when BTS sang both \u201cPermission to Dance\u201d and \u201cButter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo put into context how much time has passed since BTS were last fully active as a band: Their most recent late-night appearance was on James Corden\u2019s The Late Late Show, which aired its final episode in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tArirang will arrive on March 20. Rather than going full promo-mode in the lead-up to the release, BTS are waiting to hit the gas. The day after the album arrives, BTS will perform a free concert at Seoul\u2019s Gwanghwamun Square, which will be livestreamed globally on Netflix. On March 23, RM, Jin, Suga, J-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook will perform in New York City for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-first-us-performance-4-years-sportify-fan-event-1235530147\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify x BTS: SWIMSIDE<\/a>, their first U.S. performance in almost four years. The Tonight Show appearance will follow later that week and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-the-return-doc-trailer-1235532079\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">behind-the-scenes documentary <\/a>about the making of the album will premiere on Netflix on March 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe album marks the band\u2019s first LP since each member completed his mandatory military service in South Korea. BTS will reunite with fans around the world on their 82-date international tour scheduled to kick off on April 9. It is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/product-recommendations\/tickets\/how-to-buy-bts-world-tour-tickets-online-prices-sites-deals-1235505013\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest world tour <\/a>ever mounted by a single act from South Korea. \u201cThe most important thing,\u201d RM told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/bts-begins-again-gq-cover-story-march-2026-interview\">GQ<\/a> in the group\u2019s first joint interview since announcing its hiatus in 2022, \u201cis just that we are here back together again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band will perform two songs and sit down with host Jimmy Fallon for an interview on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,405,134,28684,136,46535],"class_list":["post-548885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-late-night-tv","tag-music","tag-the-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}