BTS

The group consists of artists RM, Jin, V, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin and Jungkook. "We're going into a hiatus now," Suga said. However a representative for the group ...

"I think that change is what we need right now," J-Hope said. "I think 90 percent of our fans would root for us no matter what kind of music or direction we choose," V said. I can't be doing group stuff and then suddenly turning the focus to my own work like flipping a switch," RM continued. "In the past, I could still balance working on music alone and doing our group promotions but now I cant do them together. And after I get up in the morning and get makeup done there's no time left for growth," group member RM said. However a representative for the group told CNN, "To be clear, they are not on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats."

Korean boy band BTS celebrated its ninth anniversary with a shocking announcement: The group is going on hiatus. RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, ...

NSYNC has technically been on hiatus since 2002, and members of the band fun. Calling the band successful would be an understatement: In 2019, BTS was the first group since the Beatles to have three No. 1 hits in a year on Billboard’s Top 200. One Direction famously went on an indefinite hiatus in January 2016 and have yet to reunite.

The boy band announced their break during a dinner filmed for social media. The group officially debuted in 2013.

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After BTS said they'd be taking a hiatus to work on solo projects, a representative said they will remain active in 'various different formats.'

BTS’ J-Hope is set to close out Lollapalooza in Chicago on July 31, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline the main stage at any major U.S. music festival. “I think now we’re starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to be remembered as.” There are 35 songs running for a total of two hours and eight minutes, although much of it has been heard before. “But when it comes down to each member, people don’t know who each of us are. I think BTS will become stronger that way.” J-Hope, Suga and Jungkook all announced they already have plans for individual releases, although they didn’t share a timeline of when they could come out.

K-pop supergroup BTS on Tuesday announced they were taking an indefinite "hiatus" from one of the world's most popular acts to focus on solo pursuits.

I've changed as a human over the past 10 years, so I needed to think and have some alone time," RM said. J-Hope is slated to headline Chicago's Lollapalooza on his own later this summer. "I've always thought that BTS was different than other groups," he continued.

Members of the K-pop juggernaut said in a video conversation that they wanted time to explore their individual artistic identities.

And future solo performances are already on the books: Earlier this month, Lollapalooza, a music festival in Chicago, announced that J-Hope would be a headliner at the event this summer. While chatting and reminiscing over a meal, the members — J-Hope, RM, Jin, Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook — touched on some of the challenges they were facing as artists, including the pressure to keep churning out hit songs. “We’ve talked among ourselves several times and we believe it’s good to take some time apart,” J-Hope, one of the members, said in the video.

BTS is bidding fans goodbye, for now. The juggernaut K-pop group, which arguably wields the most obsessively adoring fanbase on the planet, has announced ...

“And since we’re singers, it’d be most effective if we showed that with our music or performance.” I think BTS will become stronger that way.” RM says that, while the group has reached unimaginable heights as a unit, the individual artists have more growing to do on their own.

Shares of Hybe Co., the agency that manages the South Korean pop phenomenon BTS, plunged by a record after the band said they'll focus on individual ...

South Korean boy band say in a video they are 'exhausted' and 'going through a rough patch' – but will return 'a stronger group'

The group has twice been nominated for a Grammy but has yet to win. BTS’s label enjoyed a surge in profits during the pandemic, despite holding fewer concerts. “I’ve always thought that BTS was different than other groups,” he continued. J-Hope said that time apart could help BTS “become a stronger group,” and that the time was “important ... for BTS’ second chapter.” Jimin, 26, said the members are “slowly trying to figure things out now” and that “we’re starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to be remembered by our fans”. “But the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don’t give you time to mature.”

Shares of agency that manages the pop phenomenon tanked a record 28 percent on news members will pursue solo projects.

The slump means that Hybe has given up almost all of its gains since its trading debut. Bangtan Boys, more commonly called BTS, made the announcement to pursue solo projects in a video posted on YouTube, which has already got more than 10 million views. Military service is mandatory for all men in South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea.

Band members make surprise announcement during dinner to mark the group's founding in 2013. BTS perform on stage at the Grammy Awards in 2022. BTS performs ...

J-Hope said in the clip that time apart could help BTS “become a stronger group,” and that the time was “important … for BTS’s second chapter.” The White House praised the band as “youth ambassadors who spread a message of hope and positivity across the world”. By the end of the dinner several of the members of the group behind “Dynamite” and “Butter” grew tearful as they voiced gratitude for their fans, collectively known as the “ARMY.”

Shares in Hybe, the South Korean entertainment and talent agency behind global pop superstars BTS, sank on Wednesday after the seven-member boy band said they ...

V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin, J-Hope of musical group BTS attend the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, ...

"I hope you don't see this is a negative thing," the artist implored fans. J-Hope said in the clip that time apart could help BTS "become a stronger group," and that the time was "important... for BTS' second chapter." "I've always thought that BTS was different than other groups," he continued. By the end of the dinner several of the members of the group behind "Dynamite" and "Butter" grew tearful as they voiced gratitude for their supporters, a fandom known online as the "ARMY." Jimin, 26, said the members are "slowly trying to figure things out now" and that "we're starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to be remembered by our fans." "But the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don't give you time to mature."

Don't get too worried, while Korean boy band BTS have announced that they will be parting ways, they have promised to return in the future.

"We're each going to take some time to have fun and experience lots of things," band member Jungkook said. According to People, the 'Dynamite' singers' representative corrected their statement by saying that they are "not going on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects." BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook announced on Tuesday 14 June that they will be taking a break to focus on their solo careers.

She was, of course, reacting to the news that the massively successful K-pop group BTS was taking a break for an indefinite period. Titus was not alone in her ...

With the industry’s exponential growth in recent years, there’s now a multitude of rising bands that could quickly fill the gap while BTS takes a break. Lee Jin-hyeong, chief commercial officer at HYBE, told the conference that “the conscription laws continue to change in an unpredictable manner, which actually make things hard for our artists.” Since becoming the first Korean act to win a Billboard music award in 2017, BTS has been one of South Korea’s biggest exports, bringing in billions in ticket sales, sponsorships, music downloads and merchandise. Critics say that proposed exemptions would be bending the conscription rules to help the rich and powerful skip national duty. The venting session was a rare public acknowledgment of the intense nature of the K-pop industry, in which stars — referred to as “idols” — are trained from a young age, taught to look, speak, dress, dance and sing in specific ways. BTS announced during a live-streamed event Tuesday that its members were taking time off to pursue solo projects and take stock of how they could move forward as a group act.

K-pop megastars BTS told fans they were taking a break from the supergroup to focus on their solo careers.

They get exhausted and worn out. "They are also people like us. must be overwhelming," one fan wrote. "BTS are not taking a hiatus. "I can't imagine how much pressure they felt these latest years. In the video, RM, 27, said they were "exhausted" and that they "didn't know what kind of group we were anymore."

Fans react to news that biggest boy band in the world is going on hiatus.

But members of BTS have already been releasing solo material. Lucy says all seven members of the group have "a lot to offer" as solo artists - but believe Jungkook could go on to a career that rivals some of the biggest names in pop. The seven members of BTS - Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook - are aged between 24 and 29, and Lucy says one of the key points made in the announcement was that the K-pop industry "doesn't really create space for maturity." In the group's statement, which was made during a televised dinner to mark their anniversary, BTS acknowledged they had been going through a "rough patch" and said that trying to find their identity had been "exhausting." She believes speaking honestly shows the groups "bravery" but also their "power" in the K-pop scene. "In K-pop, it's really not uncommon for groups that have seven, eight or nine members for the individuals in that group to have thriving solo careers but still very much be in their groups," she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

SEOUL, June 15 (Reuters) - K-pop pioneers BTS faced tears and sympathy from fans but anger from shareholders in their management company on Wednesday, ...

BTS Leader and rapper RM, in a tearful video released on Tuesday on the ninth anniversary of a group that last year became the first Asian band to win artist of the year at the American Music Awards, said he had “felt guilty and afraid” to ask for the rest that he desperately needed. “They’ve planted ‘dynamite’ in the hearts of shareholders,” one wrote on a Samsung Securities stock trading platform, referring to one of the group’s hit songs. “I could relate to them as they shed tears and honestly told us how they felt,” fan Nini Lee told Reuters from a café in Seoul where she had gathered with other fans.

They became the world's biggest pop group, and a multibillion-dollar asset in their native South Korea. But by going on hiatus, BTS are refusing to lose ...

J-Hope, a rapper and dancer with effervescent stage presence, will release his in July, ahead of his first solo headline set at Lollapalooza – another record broken, as he’s the first Asian artist to headline Chicago’s longstanding festival. “We can’t tell you everything directly,” he says to the camera, “and that’s very sad and difficult at times. Around the dinner table, each of the seven members begins to describe – hesitantly at first, and then with confidence – that they are all working on individual albums. Dynamite, a sugary disco-pop track and their first fully English-language single, earned them their first No 1 in the US and their first Grammy nomination. And more than that, they have the emotions of their deeply passionate global fanbase, BTS Army, to contend with – as well as the weight of a nation’s expectations on their shoulders. In reassurance, Suga offers: “But when we look back on the past nine years, almost nothing went to plan. But at some point I haven’t been sure what kind of group we are [any more] and for me, it was a big deal that I didn’t know.” Despite their label’s humble origins, and in a K-pop industry then dominated by the “Big Three” music agencies, BTS set themselves apart from their peers through ferocious performances, a warm yet rebellious spirit, and a deeply tangible love for music backed by the underground hip-hop credentials of several of their members. They won their first major award in 2015, for the bitterly romantic pop track I Need U, and began a steady climb towards industry domination with introspective, philosophical lyrics and a knack for twisting their hip-hop beginnings into a number of global pop genres. After I get up in the morning and get makeup done there’s no time left for growth. They spoke at the United Nations assembly in 2021 after travelling there on diplomatic passports, and earlier this month visited the White House to discuss Asian inclusion and representation with President Biden, as well as the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Breaking so many records that yesterday the Guinness World Records tweeted, “BTS we’re going to miss you”, the group are the first Grammy-nominated K-pop group, the first to chart a primarily Korean-language single at No 1 in the US, and grossed $33.3m from just four gigs in Los Angeles last year.

BTS' music company, HYBE, suffered a 28% stock drop after the group announced a 'hiatus,' although the company claims it was mistranslated.

In 2021, HYBE acquired Ithaca Holdings from Scooter Braun which expanded the company from its BTS-driven revenue and took up 45% of the South Korean company’s U.S. album sales. In the nine years since their debut, BTS made up 27% of HYBE’s U.S. album sales and streams, additionally making up nearly all of the company’s touring income. The company is currently headed for its lowest close since it went public in 2020.