The guys channeled The Beatles for the performance, which is fitting, since BTS’ talent and popularity have been compared to the Fab Four.
“You may have heard there’s a new musical craze sweeping the globe, these fellas are really something. They’re called BTS and people are so excited you can only call it BTS Mania,” Stephen Colbert said as he introduced the group. “These boys are from across the pond, the big one, the one with Hawaii in the middle. They really are a fine group of youngsters, in fact, you can call them the fab seven. It’s got a nice ring to it.”
The mega-popular K-pop band is poised to reign supreme for summer 2019, starting with a performance on May 15 in New York City.
Jimin, Jungkook, RM, J-Hope, V, Jin and Suga will kick off Good Morning America‘s 2019 Summer Concert Series, the morning show announced today.
“ONLY ON @GMA. WEDNESDAY, May 15: @BTS_twt performs LIVE at our party in the Park, headlining our Summer Concert Series! It’s gonna be LIT!” Good Morning America wrote on Twitter.
The BTS ARMY has already sprung into action and all of the free tickets for the guys’ GMA performance have already been claimed. There is still time to join the waitlist if you want a chance to see BTS live in New York on May 15.
The wildly popular South Korean group has officially broken the YouTube record for most views in the first 24 hours of release with their new song “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey.
As of 3 p.m. EST on Saturday (April 13), “Boy With Luv” had racked up over 92 million views.
This smashes the previous record, set one week ago by K-pop girl group Blackpink’s “Kill This Love,” which earned over 56 million views in its first 24 hours, beating out Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next.”
BTS’s “Boy With Luv” YouTube video also garnered 2 million comments in the first 24 hours, Variety reports.
The members of BTS look so handsome on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, out on newsstands on Friday (March 29).
Here’s what the hugely popular K-pop boy band had to say…
RM, on their influence in music: “With seven members we have seven different tastes, of course. So when it comes to songwriting, it’s like a big competition.”
J-Hope, on their individual taste: “We’ll write a lyric and decide, ‘This sort of reflects me [more], who I am and my own color,’ so we’ll want to keep that for a solo song.”
RM, on crossing over in America: “You know, Latin pop has its own Grammys in America, and it’s quite different. I don’t want to compare, but I think it’s even harder as an Asian group. A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals. But they’re just goals—we don’t want to change our identity or our genuineness to get the number one. Like if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these other things, then that’s not BTS.”
BTS is releasing new music very soon and fans around the world are likely freaking out with excitement from the announcement!
Ahead of the start of their upcoming U.S. tour, BTS will be dropping Map of the Soul: Persona on Friday, April 12 and you can pre-order it starting on March 13.
The K-Pop group released their previous album Love Yourself – Answer, the final album in their “Love Yourself” series, last August and it went to number one on the Billboard 200.
You can see BTS on the road in the U.S. starting in May for the Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour.
