{"id":148682,"date":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","slug":"bts-to-return-in-2026-with-new-album-and-world-tour-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148682\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS to Return in 2026 with New Album and World Tour: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big news for ARMY faithful: BTS<\/a> are reportedly prepping for quite the return. As reported by Bloomberg<\/a>, the K-pop superstars are gearing up to drop a brand new album and embark on a massive world tour in 2026.<\/p>\n

BTS have been on hiatus as a group since mid-2022, when the members each began fulfilling their mandatory military service in South Korea. While solo projects have kept fans tied over, K-pop stans have eagerly awaited the return of BTS proper. Now, that return seems closer than ever.<\/p>\n

While the act and their label Big Hit Music have yet to make any official announcement, sources have confirmed to Bloomberg that BTS have spent the past few months working on a new album and preparing for their comeback tour.<\/p>\n

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The album would mark the group\u2019s first new record since 2020\u2019s Be\u00a0and is reportedly set for a March 2026 release date. As for the accompanying tour, the run would mark BTS\u2019 first proper tour since 2019 and boast around 65 dates across the globe, including more than 30 shows in North America.<\/p>\n

Notably, Big Hit Music lightly disputed some of the figures of the report. \u201cDetails regarding the dates and scale of BTS\u2019 new world tour remain unconfirmed,\u201d the label told Bloomberg in a statement. \u201cThe dates you mentioned are not the latest number we are discussing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more discussion of BTS and its various members, check out Stanning BTS<\/a>\u00a0on the Consequence Podcast Network<\/a>. You can also pick up the Stanning BTS T-shirt, now available in two colors at the Consequence Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big news for ARMY faithful: BTS are reportedly prepping for quite the return. As reported by Bloomberg, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-148682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115449047553550790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}