BTS has confirmed that it will release its latest album on Friday, under the title “Proof.”The anthology will stretch across three CDs and consist of 48 tracks.
These are intended to represent the past, present and future of the nine-year-old band, agency Big Hit Music said Wednesday (Korean time).Within the mix are three new songs: “Yet To Come,” “Run BTS” and “For Youth.”“Proof” will be available from 1pm local time on Friday, or midnight EST and 9pm Thursday PST, for U.S.
fans on the North American West coast. It is BTS’s first physical album since last year’s CD single “Butter” and “Permission to Dance” and was teased in April with the tagline ‘We are Bulletproof.” The Yonhap news agency reports that the three CDs break down as follows: the first, with 19 tracks, is largely an assembly of hits, including “Danger,” “Fire,” “DNA,” “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey, “Spring Day,” “Fake Love,” “Dynamite” and “Butter”; the second consists of subunit tracks; the final disc is dedicated to Army, the group’s activist fans and will include the three new tracks and songs and demo versions of some of the band’s past hits.The band has so far revealed relatively few promotional events and is not planning a press conference for the album release.
It will introduce its new songs Monday via YouTube channel Bangtan TV and pre-record a segment for Mnet’s program “M Countdown” at the Jangchung Arena in Seoul.
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