[All] I have to wait until next spring. I want to see it soon.

BTS directly announced their comeback during a live broadcast on the global superfan platform Weverse at around 9:20 p.m. on the 1st, saying, “Our group album will be released next spring. We’ll start preparing starting in July. Since it’s a group album, I think all the members’ thoughts will go into it. We’re going to go back to the beginning and work on it.” They also added, “We’re also planning to do a world tour with our new album. We’ll be visiting various places around the world, so please look forward to it.”

Then, in July, they revealed specific plans to sequentially move all of their members to the United States to begin working on music and preparing for performances. They plan to release a new album in 2026 and go on a large-scale world tour, once again dyeing the world in purple waves. BTS's world tour will be their first in about four years since 'BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE' which ended in 2022. At that time, the tour gathered about 4 million audiences through in-person performances, online live streaming, live viewing, and live play.

I thought it would come out in the fall, but it's coming out in the spring? Didn't you prepare at all until now? Sob sob

I want to see you soon

BTS smiling brightly, hurry up

Spring has finally come. I've been waiting for it for a long time.

Hurry up and get the whole thing, sob, sob