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BTS announce release date for new album Map of the Soul: Persona

The group added an extra date at London's Wembley Stadium, as part of their 'Love Yourself: Speak Yourself' tour, after tickets initially sold out in just 90 minutes.

Clarisse Loughrey
Tuesday 12 March 2019 04:18 EDT
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BTS 'Love Yourself' tour in London

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BTS have announced the release date for their new album.

The South Korean boy band will release Map of the Soul: Persona on 12 April, according to the group's management Big Hit Entertainment.

In 2018, BTS had a string of releases: the Korean-language Love Yourself: Tear and compilation set Love Yourself: Answer, alongside the Japanese-language Face Yourself.

Love Yourself: Tear consolidated the group's international appeal, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200, while becoming BTS's highest-charting and first number one album in the US.

The group added an extra date at London's Wembley Stadium, as part of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour, after tickets initially sold out in just 90 minutes.

BTS will now perform at Wembley on both 1 and 2 June. They will also play Paris’s Stade de France on 7 June.

The Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour kicks off on 4 May at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles, California, and will see the group head to Chicago, Brazil and Japan.

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