BTS Announces New Album ‘BE’ Is Coming In November

Just a few weeks after they released the first single from their forthcoming album, BTS have shared some of the most important details surrounding their upcoming full-length, details which fans have been eager to hear for months now.

Big Hit Entertainment, BTS’s management company, took to Twitter to share a graphic earlier today (September 27) with all the good news, and fans were quick to show their love for the group once again, as the post instantly racked up hundreds of thousands of likes and the septet quickly became a trending topic (though that’s nothing new for one of the most popular acts on social media).

BTS’s new album is to be titled BE, and it’s coming very soon. According to the tweet, the set will be made available in full on November 20. For those fans that just can’t wait until then, pre-orders begin tomorrow.

BE will be BTS’s third full-length released this year, an incredible number for any act. The seven-member vocal group kicked things off in 2020 back in February when they dropped Map of the Soul: 7, the second installment in that series. That title went straight to No. 1 in nearly every country and it remains one of the biggest releases of the year in the U.S. by seemingly every metric.

BTS followed that win up with Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey, a Japanese-language release that arrived in mid-July. While not initially a big success, the title eventually rose to No. 14, almost becoming another top 10 for the group and easily besting their own best showing for a project in that language.

BE was preceded by the lead single “Dynamite,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100, giving the band their first leader and earning the status of their most successful hit yet. The tune held atop the all-genre tally for two frames, and it hasn’t fallen very far since then.

Based on the timing shared by Big Hit, it wouldn’t be strange to see BTS release at least one more single before BE arrived. When the album does drop, it will likely go straight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming their fifth champion on the ranking.

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