ARIRANG
StudioKorean2026
Album Details
Released on March 20, 2026
The first full BTS album after all seven members completed their military service. Named after the Korean folk song carried through generations, it turns four years of separation into fourteen tracks about identity, waiting, burnout and coming home — hip-hop and pop threaded with traditional Korean sound.
Tracklist
- 1Body to Body
- 2Hooligan
- 3Aliens
- 4FYA
- 52.0
- 6No. 29
- 7Swim
- 8Merry Go Round
- 9Normal
- 10Like Animals
- 11They Don't Know 'bout Us
- 12One More Night
- 13Please
- 14Into the Sun
Album Highlights
- First BTS studio album as seven since Map of the Soul: 7 in 2020
- 'Swim' is the lead single, released alongside the album on March 20, 2026
- 'Hooligan' and 'Normal' followed as promotional singles in April and July 2026
- Debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 units — 532,000 of them pure sales, the group's biggest sales week
- Held #1 for three consecutive weeks, the first K-pop album to do so and the first by any group since 2012
- 'Swim' entered the Hot 100 at #1 and led the Global 200 for four weeks, with thirteen ARIRANG tracks charting at once
- Produced with Diplo, Kevin Parker, Mike WiLL Made-It, Ryan Tedder, Flume, El Guincho and JPEGMAFIA
- RM is credited as a writer on every track except the interlude 'No. 29'
- Supported by the Arirang World Tour — 34 cities across 23 countries, into 2027