THE 1ST SINGLE ALBUM
2 COOL 4 SKOOL
This is the product of the firm conviction and passion of BTS that hip hop musicians must make their voices heard through their albums. Each member flexed their musical prowess by taking part in creating the lyrics and music for every song on the album. BTS has repeatedly said that “hip hop is genuine music for telling one’s own story,” and indeed the members rap about their own experiences and emotions.
THE 1ST MINI ALBUM
O!RUL8,2?
With O!RUL8,2? (Oh! Are you late, too?), BTS offers the message that “you must find your happiness and your own life before it’s too late.” Lyrics that brutally lay open reality as it is deliver a bold admonition to a world that inflicts despair. Children are raised as studying machines without a chance to think about the future. A world where classmates are not friends but competitors trying to trample each other.
THE 2ND MINI ALBUM
SKOOL LUV AFFAIR
The album’s main theme is the love that blossoms in the school. This album is a culmination of the “School Trilogy” project that discusses the topics of most interest to teens their own age—dreams, happiness and love. Such penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of young people led to the absolute support that BTS has received from fans their age.
1ST FULL-LENGHTH ALBUM
DARK & WILD
BTS sings about love gone awry in DARK & WILD. They warn the girl who acts like she doesn't love them not to test their love anymore. The boys are no longer in their school uniforms. They have become tougher, singing that their love is not to be treated lightly. Tracks that highlight the different genres of hip hop—South, West, Boom Bap and Trap—provide a clear direction of BTS' music.
THE 3RD MINI ALBUM
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.1
No longer just young boys, the album is an introduction to BTS as a group that continues to grow and develop. In each track are distilled poetic and pop emotions that allows the listener to sense both the soft and the resounding musical transformation of the group. The album focuses on the uncertain future more than the glamour of youth, start of one’s young adulthood and how beauty coexists with the uncertainty.
THE 4TH MINI ALBUM
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.2
The most beautiful moment in life pt.2 sings about the energy of youth barreling forward, embracing even the uncertainty and insecurity. Now beginning to taste the bitterness of grown-up life, they can easily sense that life isn't always beautiful. However, they continue to sprint forward, relying only on their two destitute legs and the fire in their hearts. Facing the powerlessness of one’s youth, they collide and shatter and still cry out that “it’s okay to fall, it’s okay to get hurt.” That is the beauty of this moment.
1ST SPECIAL ALBUM
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE : YOUNG FOREVER
The most beautiful moment in life : YOUNG FOREVER is a special album that marks the conclusion of the epic journey of the series, containing the last stories told by young people who, despite an uncertain and insecure reality (The most beautiful moment in life pt.1) continue to surge forward (The most beautiful moment in life pt.2).
2ND FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
WINGS
TWINGS contains songs about boys who encounter temptation for the first time and must ponder and agonize in the face of it. As the seven boys experience pain and bliss, they bring forth the image of birds that break out of their shells and try to take flight for the first time.
2ND SPECIAL ALBUM
YOU NEVER WALK ALONE
The epilogue brings closure to WINGS. “We can laugh if we are together”, a message of comfort and hope to the youth of this generation. YOU NEVER WALK ALONE completes the stories of youth and growth that could not all be contained in the WINGS album. Whereas The most beautiful moment in life series and WINGS were narratives of youth and growth, this additional chapter to WINGS is a message of warm consolation and hope for the suffering youth of this generation.
THE 5TH MINI ALBUM
LOVE YOURSELF承‘HER’
LOVE YOURSELF 承 'HER' is an expression of the anxiety and elation of love, told in the unique style of BTS. The “love” that BTS aims to convey in the LOVE YOURSELF series is both the individual experience of a boy growing into adulthood and a message of peace and unity to our society today. In the mini album 承 'HER' that begins this new narrative, the image of boys in love for the first time are expressed in a refreshing and cheerful take that aims to talk about the topic of “love” while immersed in a coming-of-age tale.
3RD FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
LOVE YOURSELF轉‘TEAR’
BTS’ LOVE YOURSELF series bears the message that loving oneself is the beginning of true love. Whereas the previously unveiled LOVE YOURSELF 起 ‘WONDER’ and LOVE YOURSELF 承 ‘HER’ albums expressed the heart-fluttering and tingling moments of love, LOVE YOURSELF 轉 ‘TEAR’ album embodies the pain of boys faced with parting.
REPACKAGE ALBUM
LOVE YOURSELF結‘ANSWER’
First unveiled in March of 2016, the BTS LOVE YOURSELF series creates a narrative by linking the key songs in each album into a single theme, imparting the message that “loving yourself is true love”. Like a well-written novel having introduction, development, twists, and conclusion it shared a compelling story for two and a half years.
‘ANSWER’ is the final piece of the puzzle. Though it’s a repackaged album, LOVE YOURSELF 結 ‘ANSWER’ still includes seven brand-new tracks. CD A is a concept album, its sixteen tracks all connected lyrically to highlight BTS’ prowess as both artists and storytellers.
THE 6TH MINI ALBUM
MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA
BTS talks about the joy in finding love, and reaches out to the world with the messages they want to share with their fans. The band is especially curious about the stories of each and everyone who have helped them become who they are today. There are a total of seven tracks in this album, through which BTS weaves together what they genuinely felt both within themselves and the ever-widening world around them.
4TH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
MAP OF THE SOUL : 7
“MAP OF THE SOUL : 7” looks back on the past seven years of BTS since their debut as seven members of one team. The journey was not always smooth sailing, and there were special travails that they had to endure in their rise as global superstars. Now, understanding that the scars left by those hardships is a part of their real selves, BTS accepts both “the self I want to show” and the “self I want to scorn” to at last tell their own story of finding their “real and complete selves”.
DIGITAL SINGLE
DYNAMITE
“Dynamite” is a Disco Pop single that sings of joy and confidence, bringing a new surge of much-needed ‘energy’ to reinvigorate the global community.
In this song, the global superstars find happiness by doing again what they do best: engaging in a perpetual cycle of giving and receiving joy with the world through music and performances.
BE
As a sense of helplessness looms in every corner of the world, BTS opens themselves up to express their mixed feelings about this situation—fear and anxiety mingled with the determination to overcome all this. The album consists of a total of eight tracks including the No.1 summer hit “Dynamite” and lead single “Life Goes On”. The latter speaks on behalf of everyone stuck in the new normality brought on by COVID-19: one day, the world stopped without any warning, streets erased of footsteps and the way out is nowhere near in sight.
DIGITAL SINGLE
BUTTER
“Butter” puts forth BTS’ unique charm that no one else can pull off. Sometimes smooth, at times charismatic, the duality of BTS, that they claim to “owe it all to my mother,” will melt listeners' hearts. The fun and witty lyrics brimming with positive and bright energy will instantly uplift moods.
BUTTER
The CD single includes the shimmering summer song “Butter” as well as “Permission to Dance” that will get your heart pumping and dance again. The instrumental versions of each are also part of the tracklist.
Belonging to the dance pop genre, “Permission to Dance” sits on piano and string sounds that make the listeners bop their heads and bust some dance moves. World-renowned musician Ed Sheeran and British producer Steve Mac took part in making the song.
PROOF
Proof is the core of BTS’ history. The new three-CD album introduces three new tracks, one in each CD: “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)”, “Run BTS” and “For Youth”, each in different genres conveying their own messages.
Dedicated to their fans ARMY, CD3 includes tracks that members worked on previously but have not been released in the previous albums, demo versions of already released tracks in BTS’ younger voices vividly capturing the moments back in time, and a new fan song, “For Youth.”
