{"id":793769,"date":"2019-03-11T21:27:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=806860"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:27:41","slug":"bts-ready-new-lp-map-of-the-soul-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bts-ready-new-lp-map-of-the-soul-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Ready New LP \u2018Map of the Soul: Persona\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shutterstock_9931186b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bts\" data-tag=\"bts\">BTS<\/a> will release their seventh LP, <em>Map of the Soul: Persona<\/em>, on April 12th via Big Hit Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The South Korean boy band\u2019s latest album follows a stream of 2018 releases: the Korean-language <em>Love Yourself: Tear<\/em> and compilation set <em>Love Yourself: Answer<\/em> and the Japanese-language <em>Face Yourself<\/em>. The chart-topping former album&nbsp;includes the lead single \u201cFake Love,\u201d which <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> ranked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/50-best-songs-of-2018-764204\/38-bts-fake-love-k-pop-764299\/\">the year\u2019s 38th-best song<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Map of the Soul: Persona<\/em> will be available to pre-order starting Wednesday, March 13th. The album release precedes the group\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-love-yourself-speak-yourself-world-tour-796305\/\">Love Yourself: Speak Yourself World Tour<\/a>, which hits stadiums throughout the U.S., Brazil, Europe and Japan; the trek launches May 4th in Pasadena, California and includes stops in Chicago, Illinois and East Rutherford, New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">BTS, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/on-the-charts-bts-become-first-k-pop-act-to-reach-number-one-629174\/\">first-ever K-pop act to top the Billboard 200 chart<\/a>, recently released a full-length documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/a-k-pop-concert-movie-is-coming-to-youtube-779859\/\"><em>Burn the Stage: The Movie<\/em><\/a>, on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-new-lp-map-of-the-soul-persona-806860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS will release their seventh LP, Map of the Soul: Persona, on April 12th via Big Hit Entertainment. The South Korean boy band\u2019s latest album follows a stream of 2018 releases: the Korean-language Love Yourself: Tear and compilation set Love Yourself: Answer and the Japanese-language Face Yourself. The chart-topping former album&nbsp;includes the lead single \u201cFake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 07:16:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}