Nike and BTS officially launch exclusive “ARIRANG” World Tour merch alongside a Nike By You customization experience featuring 10 custom BTS-inspired designs celebrating the group’s legacy and global impact.
— The collection and customization experience will launch in select Nike stores and tour cities starting June 1.
📊| #BTS_ARIRANG becomes the FIRST and ONLY Album of 2026 with 4 songs surpassing 200M streams on Spotify!
- SWIM
- Body To Body
- Hooligan
- 2.0 [NEW]
CONGRATULATIONS BTS
RM shared that “they don’t know ’bout us” was inspired by conversations with Jimin about emotions, perspective, and how people perceive them!
🐨: “Um, ‘they don’t know ’bout us’ is a song that Jimin really checked up on and worked on a lot.
Jimin always said that through this session, he really improved a lot. Not just in singing, but also in learning vocals and writing melodies too.
Before making this song, me, Jimin, and the songwriters there had worked on another song called ‘Weak.’
While talking about what kind of story we should tell, I brought up the phrase, ‘You make me weak.’ That was what I had in mind. But actually, it was something directed toward you guys.
‘You make me weak.’ It’s something you’d say to someone you love. ‘You always make me weak.’ But that feeling can be both bad and good, kind of like normal emotions.
[….]
Then Jimin asked me, ‘Hyung, why is it “You make me weak”?’ Why does it make you weak?
And I said, because people… they actually don’t know us. They can’t know us. Even I don’t fully know myself.
While talking about that, I think Jimin found that idea really interesting.
The idea that:
‘People make me weak because they don’t really know me.’
The next day, Jimin and I ended up splitting into different rooms, and I think there, with DOC and some sampling they brought in, they turned it into ‘they don’t know ’bout us.’
If you watch the performance, there are all those eyes and faces appearing on the iPad or tablet screens.
So originally, this song actually started as something written for ARMYs, but in the end, it became a really aggressive song directed at people outside who don’t really know us at all.”
NAMJOON DEDICATING THEIR AMAS TO ARMYS AND TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE ABOUTVHOW THEY WERE TREATED BACK IN 2017 VS NOW THANKS TO ARMYS🥹
🐨9 years ago when we first attended the AMAs, we literally had no room so, we had to fix our make up in the hallway. So when the starspassed by we were like "we are sorry", but last night we used the biggest room. And everyone,every legend, every staff they were so nice and kind to us. And we know it's because of you guys. it's all thanks to you and we'll never forget the night we had at the AMAs. I love you.
Namjoon about Normal
🐨: Normal is a very sad song. I wrote the lyrics in Korean and then changed it to English for radio and stuff, but yeah, there is a Korean version of Normal. The guys have even recorded the Korean version. Idk if it will ever be out tho. Anyways, kerosene is oil that lights the bulbs. One day you love me, one day you say you hate me fine make me bulletproof, so that I won't die even if you shoot me. There was this keyword of Normal. But what is normal for us? As we live as BTS what is the normal for me? Someday ppl tell me that they love me and the other day they tell me to get lost just like a very toxic couple. Ppl put us high 1000 times and pull down 1000 times too.
"Two sides of a coin and they both ain't true"
Both sides aren't true. Why? Coz both sides are true and both sides are fake at the same time. There's no one who can explain this team called BTS.
"Wish I had a min just to turn me off"
Fine this is the life that I've chosen and all mistakes are mine but I can think about having a min of shutting off from the ppl. This doesn't mean that I wanna give up on my life but I can hope for ppl to forget me for a moment. I think that's the feeling behind writing this lyrics. Now that I see this song is really sad too.
"Fantasy and fame yeah the things we choose"
We're accepting that we've chosen this fame. When we sing this song on stage we sing it as a happy song coz we're singing it together, coz this is the other side of the coin.
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BTS currently holds the most songs charting on the Global Spotify Top Songs Chart with 13 spots.
— All songs are from their album ‘ARIRANG’, still charting 57 days after release.
BTS’ ‘ARIRANG’ becomes the FIRST and ONLY album in history to spend 8 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart.
— No Foreign Act or even Japanese Act has EVER reached this milestone before.
Despite being a pre-recorded stadium performance broadcast from their SOLD-OUT Las Vegas show, BTS’ “Hooligan” was ranked the #2 best performance of the 2026 AMAs by Billboard.