Jimin the latest BTS member to talk about how K-pop group will self-produce next album, with world tour on hold

With their Map of the World Tour rescheduled, BTS members have been explaining how they will go about producing their next album

No details of the new album have been released yet, but preparations have begun, band members say. Suga promised a video soon.

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BTS have decided to self-produce their next album. The band announced the news in a series of YouTube videos. Photo: Getty Images

Published: 2:00am, 9 May 2020Updated: 2:23am, 9 May 2020

BTS member Jimin spoke recently about the band’s new album as the coronavirus pandemic has put the K-pop giants’ globe-trotting concert tour on hold.

“As our team’s production of a new album has been assigned independently to ourselves, we named the project managers (for each category), and I was put in charge of music,” Jimin said on YouTube. “As the project manager, I would outline how the band members want to carry out (the music producing), what style of music they want, how they want it to be organised, as well as which member would go best (with which music) and share them with the management agency,” Jimin said.

Team leader RM first broke the news of the band’s new album in a live YouTube video log on April 17 as the first of the seven BTS members to take his turn to share his everyday personal life online.

“As many concerts have been postponed or cancelled in the prolonging of the (coronavirus pandemic) situation, we have reached a conclusion that we should try a new thing,” RM said, announcing that “we started preparations for a new album. We will share the process (of the album preparations with fans) … although nothing has been fixed including the time of its release.”

Suga spoke about the new album in a live YouTube video log. Photo: Getty Images

Taking over from RM, member Suga provided further details on the new album project the following Friday in a live YouTube video log. “We started off by naming our own (project managers) for each category, such as music or visual (effects). A video on it will soon be unveiled,” Suga noted. He also introduced his new passion for painting.