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ANNYEONG YEOREOBUN!

Welcome to another edition of BTS NEWS UPDATES. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend...or at least having a day to relax and destress.

Hope this blog will help take your mind away from worries... at least for a little while.

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Translation by Google:

[News Reporter Park Soo-in]

The second mixtape 'D-2', released by BTS Sugar under the name Agust D, ranked 7th in the UK's official album chart.

According to the official chart of the UK on May 29 (local time), the mixtape 'D-2', which was released all over the world on the 22nd, ranked 7th in the 'Official Album Chart Top 100'.

'D-2' swept the top in several charts, including the third place in the 'top 100 of the official album chart update', the second place in the 'top 100 of the official album chart', and the third place in the 'top 100 of the official album sales chart'. In addition, it ranked 6th in the 'Official Scottish Album Chart Top 100', and in the 'Official Album Streaming Chart Top 100' and 'Official Irish Album Chart Top 50', respectively, ranking 29th and 10th.

The title song 'Daechita' also performed well on several charts. He broke the record in the 68th place in the 'top 100 of the official single chart' and the 6th place in the 'top 100 of the official single sales chart'.

In addition, it ranked 6th in the 'Official Single Chart Top 100', 8th in the 'Official Scottish Single Sales Chart Top 100', and 49th in the 'Official Single Chart Update Top 100'.

British official charts revealed Sugar's record on the official SNS.

Sugar is writing a new history with 'D-2', which was released about 4 years after the mix tape 'Agust D', first announced in 2016. On the 23rd day after release (until 8:00 am), it ranked first in the iTunes 'Top Album' chart in 80 countries and regions around the world, and also in the 'Top Song' chart as the first in 50 countries and regions. Rose.

'Daechita', which is a sample of the Korean traditional military instrument, 'Daechita', is a song that adds a rap of Korean heavy instruments such as Pansori and Peaches to create a unique atmosphere. As of 11:00 am on the 30th, the music video exceeded 57.8 million YouTube views.

In an interview video previously released through YouTube's official channel 'BANGTANTV', "S'D-2" is purely made for fans. I hope you enjoy listening to it. "

[News Reporter Park Soo-in]

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It’s not even halfway through 2020 and already BTS has landed what will surely end the year as one of the biggest titles. The group’s Map of the Soul: 7, which was released back in February, opened at No. 1 in territories all around the world with sizable sales and stream counts. In the months since, it has continued to perform well, moving an impressive number of units seemingly everywhere and earning special certifications in several places.

That level of success would be enough for most musicians to take the rest of the year off (especially during a time when they can’t tour), but that is definitely not the case when it comes to BTS, who are known to be one of the hardest working and most prolific acts in the world.

The group doesn’t even appear to be satisfied releasing two full-lengths this year. At the moment, it looks like the septet may be on their way to finishing and sharing three proper albums before 2021 rolls around. Here’s a look at all three.

Map of the Soul: 7

As is states above, the first of BTS’s 2020 albums has already been released, and it has left a lasting impact on the history books. The chart-topping title was immediately a massive success from the moment it was released, and in many territories, it is still charting, selling and streaming well every frame.

Map of the Soul: 7 ~The Journey~

While BTS is primarily known for performing in Korean, they have also released a number of albums in Japanese throughout their years together, and now they’re gearing up to give their fans in the Asian country another full-length. The band is sharing the similarly-titled Map of the Soul: 7 ~The Journey~ on July 15, at which point it will likely become a blockbuster in the country.

The title is not composed entirely of new cuts, but rather some of their biggest hits and fan favorites translated into Japanese. The project, something of a compilation, features reworked tracks from several of their past releases, as well as a handful of tunes specific to the effort.

TBA

As if releasing one brand new album of all-original material and then re-recording many popular cuts into another language for a different group of fans wasn’t enough work, BTS is reportedly already hard at work at what will be their next Korean release. While details are scarce (which is typically how the group rolls until they’re completely ready to share details), it sounds like the seven-member vocal group are using this downtime to begin the next chapter, and fans will likely get to hear the as-yet-untitled project by the end of the year.

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ARMY pranksters love to play jokes, even on the mainstream media. Now, one US news station is responding to their fun in the best possible way.

ABC7 recently featured viewer-submitted names and photos of 2020 graduates, to congratulate them.

Little did ABC7 know, however, that Jungkook Jeon of Rowland Heights, California is actually Jungkook of BTS!

This photo of Jungkook was taken at his 2017 graduation from the School of Performing Arts Seoul.

On May 28, ABC7 reporter George Pennacchio addressed ARMY’s viral prank, which he describes as a “social media sensation”.

Someone, and we don’t know who, sent in a picture of a young man, suggesting he was a graduate from Rowland Heights. Well, he is actually a member of the hit South Korean super group, BTS, Jungkook Jeon.

— George Pennacchio

In response, ABC7 news added BTS’s six other to the graduating class of 2020!

We didn’t want to slight the other of BTS, you have to be fair, right? So with a little help from our friends in the ABC7 graphics department, we put all the guys in graduation attire. So, please welcome the over 18, non- of the Class of 2020!

— George Pennacchio

Congratulations to BTS’s graduates, and to ARMY for giving everyone a good laugh!

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BTS member Suga launched his new solo mixtape D-2, the second under his Agust D moniker, with royal fanfare.

Lead single “Daechwita” received a historical epic of a music video, in which a scarred, blonde king traipses and tramples around his Joseon era kingdom. He’s merciless, arresting a young black-haired rebel in modern designer garb (Agust D) who uses his capture for access. He’s won over the peasant executioner, who slices through the ropes in time for Agust D to rise up, remove his blindfold, and kill the sword-wielding king with a gun. Both the king and his challenger are played by Suga, whose real name is Min Yoongi.

“I always like my music to make a contrast,” Suga said in a Big Hit Entertainment promotional video. “With my previous songs I wanted to show the beauty in contrast. For example, wearing a modern outfit in front of a traditional building.” The song’s title is the name of the traditional Korean genre of military music; as Suga explained in the interview, it’s played “when the king is in procession.”

Yoongi, Suga, Agust D, BTS — they’re all in procession now, walking through irers and haters alike, among and above the millions of people they influence. Seven years into a career together, the seven of BTS — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook — have the resources and clout to do whatever they want, to work with whomever they want. They have a worldwide ARMY of fans going to bat for them, but they’re slowly cementing themselves with general audiences too (despite a relative lack of western radio play). In 2019, BTS was the top-grossing touring group of the year; In 2020, they released the reflective, journey-spanning Map of the Soul: 7, an album that looked back on their history as much as it set the pacing for their future.

Then... a global pandemic swept the world. BTS postponed their tour, and a slate of new songs made for electric live shows were instead performed televised to empty venues or not at all. All the of BTS have documented their past few months with livestreams, cover songs, and selfies; but Suga has been perhaps the most active. He painted as millions of people looked on. He ed photos of his signature gummy smile. He became DJ Shup-D on BTS’s live radio show Kkul FM, giving updates on his work and doing dramatic readings of Korean folktales.

And he released D-2, the follow-up mixtape to 2016’s Agust D. D-2’s 10 songs contrast intentionally with Agust D on a pure sonic level: “I went too hard before. I could do that back then, but I can’t rap like that now,” he said in the official mixtape interview. Agust D is a record that demands, that wants — speedy, full, and brazen whether he’s bragging about his infamous tongue technology on “Give It to Me” or analyzing his own self-hatred on “The Last.” In the latter, per Doolset Bangtan’s translation, he gasps out, “Min Yoongi has already died (I killed him).”

Suga said he listened to that older work while writing D-2, adjusting and improving upon it. On the new mixtape, there’s less of that open-wound approach to his rapping, though his high-pitched half-screech motif is still a habit recognizable for the period it adds to whichever point he’s making. D-2 explores new vocal ground (he’s previously said he’s working on his singing) and pushes what he himself can produce. It’s most apparent on “Interlude: Set me free,” on which he sings the refrain in English to an ambient trip-hop backdrop of birds chirping. In “Dear My Friend,” he rap-sings à la “Trivia: Seesaw” alongside Korean artist Kim Jong Wan of NELL (who he said was one of his idols growing up, and who also collaborated with RM); the piano approach lends itself easily to a heavy rehashing of painful history.

As one fan on Twitter astutely mused this week, “BTS love adding a trap beat to their sadness.” It was a reference to BTS’s “Outro: Tear,” a song that Yoongi explained in Break the Silence episode six was actually written for the when they were contemplating disbandment. Both trap beats and sadness are in limitless supply on D-2, but both are also sort of a trick: Suga refuses to be defined by genre, and he also refuses to be defined by sadness, or its frequent counterpart when talking about how he raps, anger.

Kate Halliwell wrote for The Ringer back in January, “Yoongi has always been the member of BTS most willing to publicly grapple with the dichotomy between fame and self, talking openly about his struggles with depression and anxiety.” She was talking specifically about “Interlude: Shadow,” the solo song that introduced the MOTS: 7 era back in January. That song, and it’s subtle counterpart, Halsey collaboration “Suga’s Interlude,” hinted at what was to come on D-2: the reconciling that comes when your world suddenly gets very big and very small.

If Agust D is about wanting, D-2 is about getting, and there’s more restraint even in the lyrics that talk about how much he’s gained. “I wanted clothes clothes, then money money, then goal goal, now what’s next,” he stutter-raps out in Korean on “Daechwita,” per the official YouTube translation of the song. “Here’s my reality check, there’s nowhere higher.” He echoes the themes in “Shadow” and in older BTS track “No More Dream” (which also gets a check in D-2 diss track “What do you think?”) about wanting wealth and the trappings of it, and that simultaneous revulsion at what it produces. D-2 song “Strange,” his collab with RM, is a takedown of capitalism. “Conflict, war, or if not those, survival is inserted inside/A life you can’t reject/Capital, as collateral for dreaming, injects the morphine of hope,” per translation from Wisha/Do You, Bangtan.

Agust D was about his past, Suga explained, but D-2 is about what the 27-year-old’s life (28 in Korean age) is like now. The genre of songs about fame is an especially interesting one, because on the surface, they shouldn’t be relatable at all. Britney Spears’s “Piece of Me,” for example, recalls a very specific circumstance of being the living embodiment of an American ideal, a product, something to consume. Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” Taylor Swift’s “The Lucky One.” The songs are about being watched, about having this thing you love turned into something else. Suga’s own fame-centric work unpacks the dualities of being powerful and losing your underdog status, of rebelling against a machine and also profiting from it. He’s undeterred from exploring the more difficult parts of living for everyone, and also giving his own hardship and grief the context of power. He appreciates the contrast, after all.

The ultimate embodiment of that is in D-2’s strongest track: “People.” The song features a winding, up-and-down marimba-type melody that creates a trapped, relentless loop for him to sing over. He quotes the Joker’s best line, “Mmm why so serious?” before turning internal, “I’m so serious.” With soaring back-up ad-libs from frequent collaborator Adora, he turns over the idea of ordinary and extraordinary and the crucial difference in perspective; he builds a maze of a song and then steamrolls through it.

If Suga is a king, his gospel on D-2 comes down to these lyrics, translated by various interpreters as: “If you get hurt, what about it?” Channel the pain, or set it free, or use it for money, or use it for growth, or don’t. Do all of those things and then lay down in the middle of the paradox. Make it a song. Release it for free. Find the way to keep going.

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