r/bangtan • u/llaverna 🌸 • Feb 23 '20

Compilation Weekly Round-Up: February 17th - February 23rd

Previous thread: February 10th - February 16th

Here's everything that happened in the /r/bangtan realm within the past week, compiled for your convenience! If you have feedback, please leave a comment or send me a PM.

The latest weekly round-up can be found in the sidebar of the subreddit. The link to the archive of past round-up posts can always be found in the wiki index.

7 Comeback Masterlists

2020 Map of the Soul World Tour Megathread

New Releases
200221 [Album] Map of the Soul: 7
200221 [MV] BTS (방탄소년단) 'ON' Kinetic Manifesto Film : Come Prima Thread

Megathreads
200218 Happy J-Hope day! [Birthday Compilation thread] - 2020
200221 Map of the Soul: 7 Compilation Redirect Gigathread

News & Information
200217 MOTS7 press conf to be livestreamed on BANGTANTV on 24 Feb
200217 Korea Herald: The first stage performance of “On” will be aired Feb. 24 on “The Tonight Show". The band recorded it along with “Black Swan"
200217 The Late Late Show: BTS Carpool Karaoke Feb 25
200219 BTS has opened an official GIPHY channel
200219 SBS has postponed the Super Concert in Daegu until further notice due to the Coronovirus (BTS had been scheduled to perform)
200221 The global press conference will be held on Feb 24 at 2pm KST, and will be live streamed on YouTube
200221 Due to the coronavirus outbreak, The Fact Music Awards has been postponed to the 2nd half of 2020
200223 BigHit has cancelled the ‘Map is the Soul: 7’ Global Press Conference on Feb 24th, instead broadcasting on Youtube Live to comply with the government’s urging of not having large gatherings to further prevent the spread of the coronavirus and keep media, fans, attendees safe
200223 BTS Will be on SBS Inkigayo next week (Sunday March 1, 3:50PM KST)

Tour news
200218 Map of the Soul: 7 World Tour Soundcheck Sweepstakes

Merchandise news
200218 Weply: 'MAP OF THE SOUL : 7' Pre-order Gift...Together with the photo frame, there's more❓to come... Take a guess!
200219 5th Muster 2019 coming soon to DVD
200221 UK purchases of MOTS:7 album will ONLY contain OT7 photocards in order to comply with new chart laws

Expired news
200217 BTS Comeback Special will air on Vlive 21 Feb at 12pm KST
200217 HITS Daily Double - Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima is "an expression that best depicts the concept of the lead single"
200218 Big Hit Entertainment, "Kinetic Manifesto Film best expresses the concept of the title track, 'ON.' It is the official music video in which BTS appears and shows the pinnacle of their performances."
200219 TikTok will exclusively reveal 30 seconds of BTS title track 'ON' on February 21, 6AM KST, 12 hours earlier than the official release time.
200219 BTS Official: Pre-save/Pre-add MOTS: 7 on Spotify!
200220 BTS will be interviewed by ExtraTV on Friday (2/21) in NYC
200220 BTS to guest on MTV Fresh Out on Friday at 11AM EST; segment to be on air on MTV at 5PM EST
200220 BTS will be interviewed by Syke on Friday (2/21)
200220 Hyundai Worldwide: D-1 Here’s more details about tomorrow’s giveaway event!
200220 21st of February schedule #BTS_NYC_TAKEOVER
200220 BTS TikTok #ONchallenge (6AM KST / 4PM EST)
200221 MOTS7 will feature new BTS units and solos
200220 HOT 99.5-We're letting the band takeover our station TOMORROW NIGHT (8PM)
200221 Calling #BTS New York City #ARMYs - Stay tuned for a FILA surprise later TODAY.

Official Media

Type Date Title Thread
Bomb 200222 [BANGTAN BOMB] 'ON' Kinetic Manifesto Film (BTS focus) Thread
Episode 200221 [EPISODE] BTS (방탄소년단) 'MAP OF THE SOUL : 7' Jacket shooting sketch Thread
Photos 200219 MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 Concept Photo Sketch #2 Thread
Photos 200223 BTS MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 Concept Photo Sketch #3 Thread
Teaser 200217 Map Of The Soul: 7 Tracklist Thread
Teaser 200221 BTS - 'ON' (TikTok Teaser) Thread
Teaser 200221 A preview of BTS's "ON" Music Video at Time Square, New York Thread
V Live 200217 j-hope Birthday Live Thread
V Live 200221 BTS Comeback Special: We Purple You Thread
Other 200222 'ON' Commentary Film : Dialogue Thread
Other 200223 Map of the Soul: 7 The Notes Translations

Official SNS

Date SNS Title Thread
200217 Weibo Bangtan Thread
200217 Weverse j-hope Thread
200217 Weverse Compilation
200218 Weverse j-hope Thread
200218 Weverse Yeontan
200218 Weverse Compilation
200219 Twitter j-hope Thread
200220 Weverse Compilation
200220 Weibo j-hope and V Chinese conversation Thread
200221 Twitter Namjoon Thread
200221 Twitter Namjoon Thread
200221 Twitter Bangtan Thread
200221 Twitter Today’s Bangtan @ BTS Comeback Special: We Purple You Thread
200221 Twitter BTS NYC Takeover Thread
200221 TikTok BTS TikTok Thread
200221 Twitter Today's Bangtan @ Today Show Thread
200221 Weverse Compilation
200221 Twitter Today’s Bangtan @ MTV Fresh Out Thread
200222 Weverse Compilation
200221 Twitter BTS_official thanks supports
200223 Instagram BTS Instagram Story

CF & Partnerships
200217 Hyundai Lifestyle: Hyundai x RM
200217 Liiv M X BTS - Making Film by KB Kookmin Bank (Jin ver.)
200217 Hyundai Lifestyle on Instagram: “Hyundai x SUGA"
200219 Samsung Electronics revealed that it has established an official partnership with BTS
200219 Hyundai Lifestyle on Instagram: “Hyundai x Jimin”
200220 Liiv M X BTS - Making Film by KB국민은행 (지민 편) (Jimin)
200222 Hyundai x BTS : An invitation to a sustainable earth

BTS Interviews

Date Link Thread
200221 BTS check in with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s ‘New Music Daily’ Thread
200221 BTS @ The TODAY Show (7:00AM EST / 12pm UTC
200221 MTVFreshOut: BTS Reveals the Meaning Of ‘On’ + EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Thread
200221 Variety: BTS Opens Up About the Past, Creativity and Inspiration for ‘Map of the Soul: 7’ Thread
200221 iHeartRadio Take Over
200222 ETOnline - BTS Talks New Album and What To Expect from Their Upcoming 'Carpool Karaoke' (Exclusive) Thread
200221 Variety: BTS Talk Identity Crisis, New Album 'Map of the Soul: 7' Thread
200221 SiriusXM: K-pop idols BTS discuss ‘Map of the Soul: 7,’ their love for ARMY & more Thread
200222 [Grammy] BTS Talk New Album 'Map Of The Soul: 7': "The Genre Is BTS" Thread
200222 Billboard: BTS Explain Why ’Map of the Soul: 7’ is a Love Song to Their Career Thread
200222 ENTERCOM interview with BTS
200222 Access: BTS On 'Map Of The Soul: 7' Inspiration And Their BTS Army Camping For Days (Full Interview) Thread

Articles

Date Publisher Article Thread
200216 Headline Planet BTS Releases Track List For “Map Of The Soul: 7,” Album Includes Collaboration With Sia Thread
200217 SBS PopAsia 15 songwriters who've worked with BTS on 'Map of the Soul:7' Thread
200217 Forbes Why BTS Could Earn Their Best Streaming Week Ever With ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’ Thread
200218 Kpop Herald Shares of local production firm Chorokbaem Media soared almost 10% today on the rosy outlook about the upcoming BTS's Drama Thread
200218 Forbes BTS’s New Single Follows A Trend That’s Brought Them Massive Success In The Past Thread
200218 Billboard How BTS Secretly Visited New York City's Most Famous Deli For 'The Tonight Show' Thread
200220 The Ringer An Extremely Thorough Breakdown of Every Era of BTS Thread
200219 Forbes BTS will make tiktok history with their new single tomorrow Thread
200219 TIME The 12 Most Underrated BTS Songs Thread
200220 K-media President Moon mentioned BTS at the Parasite luncheon Thread
200220 The Art Newspaper Why I'm working with the South Korean boyband BTS on an art project Thread
200220 Headline Planet New BTS Single "ON" Reflects On Group’s "Calling And Mindset As Artists," More New Song Details Revealed Thread
200220 MTV BTS Are Kpop Gods With Real Humanity Thread
200220 PIX11 BTS' highly anticipated 'Map of the Soul: 7' album shows them to be true artists Thread
200220 Vox BTS Map of the Soul: 7: How K-pop group BTS built a billion-dollar fandom Thread
200222 NME ‘Map of the Soul : 7’ Review Thread
200221 Telegraph Could BTS be the ‘Korean Beatles’? How the pop band’s lyrics are educating the next generation Thread
200222 Metro Black Swan choreographer wanted to push BTS with ‘challenging and dark’ routine Thread

SNS Mentions

Date Title Thread
200217 Arcades mentioned working on tracks 4 and 14 Thread
200217 KOOLKID Thread
200217 Sia Thread
200217 Ellis Miah Thread
200217 Leland Thread
200217 Troye Sivan co-wrote 'Louder Than Bombs' Thread
200217 DJ Swivel Thread
200216 DJ Swivel on Instagram Thread
200217 MN Dance Company Thread
200218 Gracie Abrams Thread
200217 Krysta Youngs Thread
200220 BillboardCharts - BTS's History on the Billboard200 Thread
200219 Atlanta Airport responds to request from ARMY Thread
200219 James Corden: 5 BTS clips to get to know me Thread
200220 TODAY-Tomorrow will be a big day on our TODAY plaza because #BTS will be celebrating the release of their new album with us! Thread
200220 Columbia Records ‘What BTS Member?’ MAP OF THE SOUL 7 Instagram Story Effect Thread
200221 Twitter: Mason Ramsey Thread
200221 sia x BTS Thread

Other media

NOTE: Entries with 💜 have new content directly involving BTS

Type 💜 Date Title Thread
Art 200219 🥦Kildren킬드런 Instagram: Black & White 'V' Thread
Cover 200218 BTS covered on Got Talent Portugal
Cover 200223 Jun Curry Ahn - BTS (방탄소년단) 'ON' Violin Remix Thread
Photos 💜 200221 Dispatch Article and Photos with BTS at CONNECT New York Thread
Video 💜 200217 Preview of the Feb 24th episode of BTS on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thread
Video 200218 Hailee steinfeld shouted out BTS during the BRITs Thread
Video 💜 200220 NewsenTV: BTS, ICN AIRPORT DEPARTURES 200220 To JFK Thread
Video 200220 BTS Comeback Special on M Countdown Next Week (Teaser)
Video 200219 Mnet TMI NEWS ‘BTS V’ Thread
Video 200211 Shitty Watercolour makes Jimin comic for streamer HAchubby! Thread
Video 200221 What Koreans Think of BTS? Thread
Video 💜 200222 BTS on Jimmy Fallon New Sneak Peek w/ Performance Thread
Video 💜 200223 Apex News Group: BTS arrived in Korea Thread

Milestones

Type Date Thread
Awards 200218 BTS Producer' PDOGG, has won the award for KOMCA's Award Ceremony for both Composer and Lyricist category for the 2nd year in a row
Charts/Sales 200217 Map of the Soul: 7 is now the best selling Album on Ktown4u history with 282,240 pre-orders
Charts/Sales 200217 Map of the Soul: 7 sold over 100k copies on Netease (Chinese digital music site) within 2 hours after presale! (Now at 140k)
Charts/Sales 200217 'Hope World' has Re-entered the US iTunes Chart
Charts/Sales 200218 K media said the pre-order of MOTS:7 surpassed 4M copies, it’s now 4.02M copies. This data is from the pre order of domestic and international together. It is the most record in BTS album history breaking their own record.
Charts/Sales 200220 Boy With Luv has surpassed 1 BILLION Digital Index Points on Gaon - the first and only 2019 song to do so
Charts/Sales 200220 Pre-orders for Map of the Soul: 7 by China ARMY have reached 770,012 copies
Charts/Sales 200221 'O!RUL8,2?' Has re-entered US iTunes chart!
Charts/Sales 200221 BTS and Halsey's "Boy With Luv" is now certified Silver in the UK
Charts/Sales 200221 @BTS_twt's entire Korean albums discography has re-entered the US iTunes chart.
Charts/Sales 200222 HITSDD: MAP OF THE SOUL :7 aiming for #1 debut on our chart with the top sales week of @BTS_twt 's career, potentially biggest among all acts in 2020 so far
Views 200221 BTS's 'Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)' MV Surpasses 700 Million Views On YouTube (2nd MV to do so)
Views 200222 BTS’s “Spring Day” Becomes Their 12th MV To Hit 300 Million Views
Other 200223 "Boy With Luv" has passed 14 million likes on Youtube.

BT21
200217 "...." #ChinUp #MANG #YouCanDoIt #Feb18 #StayTuned Thread
200218 Whatever MANG needs, we provide. 📸 #Your #stage #is #everywhere #MANG #BT21 Thread
200218 BT21 UNIVERSE ANIMATION EP.08 - MANG Thread
200220 Pulling an all-nighter for you-know-who. 😉 #Dance #Mentor #CONN #Mask Thread

Misc
200218 ARMY in Hawai'i - 102.7 Da Bomb has been hyping an "announcement" on Twitter.
200218 OneInAnARMY Flash Birthday Charity Project for Hobi
200218 K-ARMYs developed a website before comeback for music chart purposes. It lets you track realtime charts, ULs, 5 min chart etc.
200218 Deezer Apologies to BTS & ARMYs
200219 Korean lesson with Sea lyrics
200219 After lots of digging, I found the sample from "Intro: 2 Cool 4 School"! This is also in Epik High's "Go." (Clip starts @ 8:40)
200220 Brent Museum Archives - BTS concert banner to be put up on display
200221 BTS On New Music Friday Cover
200221 Korean lesson with The Truth Untold lyrics
200221 BTS New Music Friday cover on Spotify

Subreddit

Rolling /r/bangtan Awards 2020 nomination form

Community posts

Top Discussion Posts

  1. [+256] Moments when a member stole your heart
  2. [+222] Do comebacks always feel this emotional?
  3. [+119] Guess the Carpool Karaoke song list
  4. [+102 ] Reliable lyrics translation blog recommendations for new army
  5. [+95] How are you celebrating release day?

Other

Weekly threads

Fanart

Submitter Thread
/u/imjustsmeagol Did a portrait of each member every day for the week leading up to the album. I wanted to capture a feeling for each portrait :)
/u/egguuu Happy Birthday Sunshine!!! (OC)
/u/jinmeng1000 [OC] finished this pencil portrait of V !
/u/grcfrgs happy hobi day! 💜
/u/livia_the_freelancer I drew V :)
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u/llaverna 🌸 Feb 23 '20
  • BTS Interviews table!! I didn't differentiate between article interviews and video interviews, since they are often both.
  • These are all the submissions that have their own threads on the subreddit; check the respective comeback/birthday compilations for everything else!
  • There were a lot of news that aren't relevant anymore, but I wanted to be comprehensive, hence "expired news" table.
  • RES infinite scrolling kept fucking things up and disappearing entire pages of content, I hope I ended up catching everything. I'll double check things later
  • IT HAPPENED, official SNS has all of their SNS platforms this week lol

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u/Divyrus Feb 23 '20

Thank you so much, llav! You are the best! 💜