BTS’s comeback has been confirmed – and it’s just one month away.

Reports had speculated that the K-pop idols’ comeback had been moved from May to mid-April – and now, we have confirmation.

Big Hit has revealed that BTS’s new album is entitled Map Of The Soul: Persona, and that it will be released on 12 April.

That’s a Friday, by the way, so get prepping to stream now.


Pre-orders will begin on 13 March, so ARMYs can get their orders in this week… then wait the four painful weeks til the record drop.

Totally worth it.

Map Of The Soul: Persona comes eight months after BTS’s last album, Love Yourself: Answer, which smashed records as it became the band’s second album to hit number one in the US.



The band last released IDOL in August 2018, with the Nicki Minaj featuring track achieving them a number one in Korea and reaching no 21 and no 11 in the UK and US respectively.

BTS also released Airplane 2 in Japanese in November.

We are so pumped (Picture: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

And it sounds like the group are trying to better themselves yet again with their latest effort.

Speaking to Billboard at the Grammys, RM said their upcoming album would be ‘paying off for the fans’, adding: ‘We’ve been working very hard. It’s gonna be real soon.’

Looks like there’ll be plenty of fresh music to add to their setlist when BTS play two sell-out shows at Wembley Stadium on 1 and 2 June.

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