{"id":353027,"date":"2026-03-18T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353027\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:52:09","slug":"bts-set-fallon-interview-performance-ahead-of-new-album-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353027\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Set &#8216;Fallon&#8217; Interview &#038; Performance Ahead of New Album &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bts\/\">BTS<\/a> is coming back to late night, with NBC announcing Wednesday (March 18) that the group will appear on not one, but two back-to-back The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon episodes to celebrate the release of ARIRANG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe group\u2019s first episode will have the busiest schedule, as RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook will sit down together as a group for an interview next Wednesday (March 25). They\u2019ll also perform a song from the fast-approaching 14-track LP, which drops Friday (March 20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe next day, BTS will appear again on Fallon to perform a second track from ARIRANG. That episode will also feature Chris Pratt and Charlie Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe outing will mark the Bangtan Boys\u2019 first group late-night interview since returning from military service. The last of the members were discharged over the summer, and they almost immediately reunited in the studio to create ARIRANG, the title of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/bts-next-album-titled-arirang-1236156289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">which is inspired<\/a> by a historic Korean folk song. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBTS\u2019 swing by the Tonight Show also isn\u2019t the only appearance they have planned in New York City in celebration of the album, which marks the group\u2019s first full-length since 2020\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>-topper, Be. As announced Monday (March 16), the boy band will perform and answer questions for a select group of fans at an undisclosed location in the city for a Spotify fan event on March 23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook last appeared all together on Fallon in 2021, performing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>-topping singles \u201cButter\u201d and \u201cPermission to Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs on NBC at 11:35 p.m. Monday through Friday, and streams on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSee Fallon\u2019s announcement below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"c-logo lrv-a-unstyle-link u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-width-100p  u-max-width-100 u-height-26 u-max-width-130px@mobile-max u-margin-t-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" title=\"Billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-accent-l@desktop u-font-size-1205 a-font-accent-xs@mobile-max u-font-size-15@mobile-max u-line-height-22px@mobile-max lrv-u-text-align-center@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0030@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-a-00 u-padding-t-0125@mobile-max u-padding-b-0063@mobile-max\">Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-button lrv-u-cursor-pointer lrv-u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-background-color-black:hover lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover u-padding-lr-0.875 u-padding-tb-10 lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-align-items-center a-font-basic-fancy-xs u-margin-t-0.188 u-margin-b-0188 u-margin-b-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS is coming back to late night, with NBC announcing Wednesday (March 18) that the group will appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,4608,61,60,278,633,4609],"class_list":["post-353027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-kpop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}