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Big Hit, the label behind South Korea’s mega pop outfit BTS, have announced that pre-orders have already began this week and general launch of their new album is due on November 20. They’ve described the extremely anticipated as “the most ‘BTS-esque’ music yet”, whatever that means!
The unlikely pop music heroes, who’ve burst by way of the bamboo ceiling and made an Asian band the biggest pop act on the planet, announced the date of their second album launch for 2020. ‘Map of the Soul: 7′ debuted on top of the Billboard chart on March 7, 2020, marking BTS’ fourth Number 1 album. In 2019 they matched The Beatles record of 3 albums to reach the Number 1 position in the identical calendar year.
The arrival of their new album, merely titled ‘Be’, is the band’s answer to reach out to their fans, referred to as ‘ARMY’, since they had to cancel their entire 202 sold out stadium concert world tour.
The announcement of the new album follows the release of the hit single, and summer season disco bob, ‘Dynamite’, their first all English-written music, and their first track to reach the Number 1 on Billboard’s Hot a hundred primary singles chart for 3 weeks (over a 4 week period). The song not only reached the Number 1 place, it debuted at Number 1.
‘ Elements broke the YouTube record for many views in a 24 hour interval, racking up an astonishing 101.1 million views. The band additionally has another 4 songs in YouTube’s Top 10 most viewed videos in four hours.
Here they are performing ‘Dynamite’ at this year’s VMA awards (they additionally won 4 VMAs)…
https://youtu.be/zJCdkOpU90g
(The link, if the video doesn’t play… https://youtu.be/zJCdkOpU90g)
They’re additionally the primary K-pop act to reach the Number 1 spot on the Billboard chart – Psy and ‘Gangnam Style’, regardless of its worldwide success, only reached the Number 2 spot in 2012.
The firm behind BTS, Big Hit Entertainment, completely unknown until their sole act BTS began rising by way of the ranks of South Korea’s K-Pop, after which tackle the world pop market, has priced its preliminary public providing at the prime of its range last Monday, as hopeful consumers chased South Korea’s largest listing in 3 years.
Institutional investors expressed interest in additional than 1,000 times the variety of shares on supply. Even the die-hard BTS followers are placing in bids in the hopes of securing even one share in what analysts count on to be South Korea’s hottest itemizing this yr.
Here’s a live version of ‘Dynamite’ and some of their different songs, carried out last week on NPR…
(The hyperlink, if the video doesn’t play… https://youtu.be/gFYAXsa7pe8)
Big Hit priced the IPO at a hundred thirty five,000 won (US$114.99) per share, the highest of an indicative price vary of 105,000-135,000 won announced earlier this month.
Big Hit reported a forty nine.7 billion received (US$42,695,950) profit for the primary half of 2020 as its on-line live performance and merchandise sales on the Weverse app more than offset the stadium live performance and event cancellations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Big Hit have kicked off a number of extra acts in recent years however 99% of the company’s revenue comes from just one band, BTS. BTS is brief for their full Korean name Bangtan Sonyeondan (방탄소년단), translated loosely as Bulletproof Boy Scouts.
The 7 members are RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook and have been working together since round 2011 however debuts in June 2013. Coming from a ‘no name’ manufacturing firm they battled the powerful ‘pop blood sport’ of K-Pop and had very tough occasions of their early days before breaking into the world market someday around 2016. Their success in the US has solely really been over the past 2 years.
The IPO will makes the 7 BTS members immediate multimillionaire stockholders, as Big Hit CEO Bang Si-hyuk gave them sixty eight,385 shares every, value almost US$7.9 million at the concern price, in August..