{"id":219635,"date":"2026-01-06T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:47:38","slug":"k-pop-stars-bts-to-release-album-in-march-ahead-of-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219635\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop stars BTS to release album in March ahead of world tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI have been waiting more earnestly than anyone else,\u201d group leader RM wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">No further details about the album or tour were given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The album will be BTS\u2019 first since the anthology Proof, which became South Korea\u2019s bestselling record of 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Before their military service, BTS generated more than 5.5 trillion won ($6.6 billion) in South Korea per year, according to the government-backed Korea Culture and Tourism Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The figure is equivalent to about 0.2% of the country\u2019s total GDP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">BTS has expanded beyond their home nation to become a global musical phenomenon in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">They hold the record as the most-streamed group on Spotify and became the first K-pop act to top the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Artist 100 charts in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI have been waiting more earnestly than anyone else,\u201d group leader RM wrote in the letter. No further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3017,695,696,9218,3640,156,209,78,3857,1535,132397,157,111,139,69,1118,2887,5436,61,208,1533,377],"class_list":["post-219635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ahead","tag-album","tag-announced","tag-before","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-group","tag-in","tag-kpop","tag-march","tag-megastars","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-release","tag-stars","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-will","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}