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BTS have blown our minds by casually dropping the news that a new album is coming in four weeks’ time.

No big deal, right, ARMY?

After reports swirled claiming BTS’s comeback had been shifted from May to mid-April, Big Hit Entertainment confirmed today that the K-pop group’s new album will be available on 12 April.

What’s more, they unveiled the title – Map Of The Soul: Persona.


Of course, we would have known that had we picked up on the sneaky hints BTS have been dropping.

BTS totally had us duped (Picture: Jun Sato/WireImage)

The title of the album was actually revealed in the intro to BTS’s performance at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) in December.



Ahead of the boys’ performance of Anpanman in Hong Kong, a video flashed up reading: ‘You gave me power. You gave me love. So now I’m a hero, so now I’m a boy with love. I’ll show you the map of the soul. I’ll show you do the dream.’

Show us the map of the soul? You scoundrels.

So they really clowned us huh? Look at all these hints! 😭 1. Part of the VCR clip from MAMA 2018 in Hong Kong

2. Jung's "Map of the Soul" (available on the Big Hit Shop)

3. The ending message of Jin's solo "Epiphany" …😐#MapofTheSoul #BTSisCOMING @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/cA32PZP9Ro — BTS UK ARMY UNITE (@BTSUKUNITE) March 11, 2019

And this wasn’t the only glaring hint.

Last year, the Big Hit shop was selling the book ‘Jung’s Map of the Soul’ – yup, it was hiding in plain sight.

And seven months ago, the Epiphany video also gave us a clue as to what BTS’s next album would be called.

At the end of the poignant video, a message flashed up in Korean, which, when translated to English, read: ‘To come to the end of the process of finding one’s self means to return to the staring point. What must be discovered in the end is the beginning of everything, the milestone, the map of the soul.

‘Although a part of everyone, it is not discovered by anyone – I will try to find it, starting now.’

Well. We feel silly.

Thanks to the Persona suffix on the album title, we’re expecting this era of music to be a trilogy format, just like Her, Tear and Answer of the Love Yourself era.

Pre-orders for Map Of The Soul: Persona begin on 13 March.

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