BTS to collaborate with Troye Sivan and Sia
THE South Korean boy band is gearing up for the release of its seventh studio album, Map of the Soul: 7, out tomorrow.
Its management company Big Hit Entertainment has recently unveiled the twenty songs that will be part of the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019’s Map of the Soul: Persona.
The tracklist includes the previously-issued Interlude: Shadow, Outro: Ego, and Black Swan, as well as several fan favourites from the group’s last studio album.
Among them are Intro: Persona, Mikrokosmos, Make It Right, Jamais Vu, Dionysus and the chart-topping Boy with Luv featuring Halsey.
Map of the Soul: 7 will also feature two upcoming collaborations with Australian artistes Troye Sivan and Sia, respectively entitled Louder Than
Bombs and ON.
Sivan notably penned Louder Than Bombs with the South Korean septet and Canadian singersongwriter Allie X, while Bram Inscore was on production duties.
Sia will appear in a special digitalonly version of ON, which will not be included in physical copies of BTS’ seventh studio album.
Big Hit Entertainment also shared a visual timeline for the full-length via Entertainment Weekly, which culminates in the release of Map of the Soul: 7 tomorrow, and the accompanying music video for ON on Feb 28.
In other news, BTS will soon embark on an extensive North American stadium tour in support of its new album.
The 15-date trek will kick off on
April 25 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with additional shows planned in Los Angeles, Orlando, Dallas, Atlanta and
Washington D.C.
Last year, Big Hit Entertainment revealed that the band’s wildly successful Love
Yourself: Speak Yourself mega tour drew a total audience of more than two million at 62 shows in 23 cities. – AFP-Relaxnews