BTS was busy this week as they geared up for their first concert in Saudi Arabia, posted lots of content, and got ready to celebrate lovely Jimin’s birthday!
There was a lot to keep up with this week, including Jin, Taehyung, Jimin, and Jungkook’s vacation vlogs, which each had their own unique style.
The Bring The Soul: The Movie commentary package was released on Weverse, which showed BTS reacting to their movie.
Run BTS also made a return this week with an episode that celebrated Hangul and had the members being both competitive and hilarious.
The members also traveled for their concert in Saudi Arabia, which broke their drought on twitter, and then the celebrating for Jimin’s birthday began!
And thatโs just some of what went down this week with BTS! Check out more below:
Related: BTS news roundup: “Chicken Noodle Soup,” vacation Vlogs, MTV EMA nominations, and more
Sunday 10/06:
It was announced that BTS has signed on to be the brand model for Kyungnam Pharm!
[Official] Kyungnam Pharm announced that the company has signed a contract with @BTS_twt as a brand ambassador. The company is most famous for Lemona, a vitamin C supplement series. https://t.co/AiBanNfsYa pic.twitter.com/b1A1BwQ1Mb
— doolset๐ (@doolsetbangtan) October 7, 2019
Bloomberg posted an article about a hedge fund seeing incredible gains after investing in Big Hit!
This hedge fund has gained 81% in its flagship fund since inception in July 2016, with investments like the firm behind K-pop boy band BTS https://t.co/dTpAfw40oe
— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) October 7, 2019
Monday 10/07:
Hobi posted a silly picture of Jungkook on Weverse!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191007 {16:32KST} | J-Hopeโs postkekekekekekekeke (laughing) pic.twitter.com/Fjq01YVtLW
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 7, 2019
Jin’s travel vlog was released, which also featured Yoongi on their fishing trip together! An unofficial English sub version can be watched on BANGTANTV:
BTS’ new Tokopedia ad was released!
Terima kasih antusiasmenya, Indonesia! ๐ฎ๐ฉ
Dengan ini Tokopedia secara resmi mengumumkan BTS sebagai Brand Ambassador terbaru! #TokopediaXBTS #TokopediaSaja pic.twitter.com/1pxUnVB8Lx
— Tokopedia (@tokopedia) October 7, 2019
Agust D (Yoongi’s other stage name) passed 1 million followers on Spotify!
Agust D has surpassed 1 MILLION followers on Spotify. pic.twitter.com/1yOly3yKpw
— BTS Spotify Data (@bts_spotifydata) October 7, 2019
Hoseok charted with “Chicken Noodle Soup”!
J-Hope is the youngest Korean male soloist to chart on the Hot 100.
— chart data (@chartdata) October 8, 2019
J-Hope is the first member of @BTS_twt to appear on the Hot 100 as a soloist.
— chart data (@chartdata) October 8, 2019
Billboard Hot 100: #81(new) Chicken Noodle Soup, J-Hope of @BTS_twt & @iambeckyg.
— chart data (@chartdata) October 8, 2019
Top 10 on this week's Emerging Artists chart:
1. @Nlechoppa1
2. @MattStellMusic
3. @liltjay
4. Pinkfong
5. @CityGirls_QC
6. @RoddyRicch
7. @RileyGreenMusic
8. @JimmieAllen
9. J-Hope of @BTS_twt
10. @SuperM— chart data (@chartdata) October 7, 2019
Top 10 best selling digital singles this week (US)
1. Truth Hurts
2. Someone You Loved, @LewisCapaldi
3. Old Town Road
4. Circles
5. bad guy
6. Seรฑorita
7. Memories
8. Good As Hell
9. Chicken Noodle Soup, J-Hope of @BTS_twt & @iambeckyg
10. Trampoline, @shaedband & @zaynmalik— chart data (@chartdata) October 7, 2019
J-Hope and @iambeckyg's "Chicken Noodle Soup" debuts at #1 on the World Digital Song Sales chart.
— chart data (@chartdata) October 7, 2019
Becky G posted her CNS challenge on Tik Tok!
The Golden State Warriors did the CNS challenge!
let's get it let's get it let's get it let's get it let's get it let's get it let's get it pic.twitter.com/aCupDNoorS
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) October 8, 2019
Bianca Bonnie did an interview with Billboard about her original “Chicken Noodle Soup” and Hoseok’s remake!
https://t.co/yOJtLAHbFr #BTSarmy #BonGods ๐๐ค
— Bianca Bonnie (@BIANCAisKING) October 7, 2019
Bring The Soul: The Movie commentary package was released on Weverse!
๐ฝ๏ธ Weverse presents BRING THE SOUL: THE MOVIE Commentary Package!
BRING THE SOUL: THE MOVIE isn't over just yet as the exclusive commentary by BTS welcomes you to another extraordinary journey through the memorable LY Tour. ๐
๐ https://t.co/qbS06CxWKv pic.twitter.com/1ukDyixDus
— Weverse (@weverseofficial) October 8, 2019
Tuesday 10/08:
RUN BTS! episode 86 was released on V Live and on Weverse!
Hobi posted on Weverse to thank ARMYS for their support on “Chicken Noodle Soup”!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191008 {5.44pm KST} | J-Hope's post๐๐๐๐๐thank you i love you๐๐๐๐๐ pic.twitter.com/UqiZilDi4i
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 8, 2019
Time released an in-depth interview with Bang PD that’s definitely worth a read!
The Mastermind Behind BTS Opens Up About Making a K-Pop Juggernaut https://t.co/Q8P2qj9sbG
— TIME Culture (@TIMECulture) October 8, 2019
Bianca Bonnie posted her CNS challenge on Tik Tok!
@tiktok_us @BIANCAisKING #CNS ๐๐ฅค @BTS_twt @iambeckyg #BTSarmy pic.twitter.com/hoUhNOF50d
— Bianca Bonnie (@BIANCAisKING) October 9, 2019
Wednesday 10/09:
Taehyung’s travel vlog was released, featuring his trip with friends and time with Yeontan! An unofficial English sub version can be watched on Bangtan Subs.
Jin posted on Weverse to celebrate Hangul Day!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191009 {1.57pm KST} | Jin's postHangeul Day dudung pic.twitter.com/IDOCxQj7QB
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 9, 2019
BTS left South Korea to fly to Saudi Arabia.
๋ค๋ ์ค๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค โ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/QiG3WUVQBV
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 9, 2019
๋ค๋ ์ค๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค โ๏ธ#JIMIN#ํธ๋น pic.twitter.com/G6OTO5TC5x
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 9, 2019
์ ๋ค๋ ์ค๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค pic.twitter.com/FDVp9MMhCo
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 9, 2019
Jin posted on Weverse to let everyone know about his airport look!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191009 {23:33KST} | Jin's postah.. I didnโt know we would get our photos taken at the airport and just wore whatever I saw.. I thought you wonโt be able to see anything see its nighttime
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 9, 2019
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191009 {23:36KST} | Jin's postah I just bought clothes not long ago ah
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 9, 2019
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191009 {23:39KST} | Jin's postah I treated myself and bought it because itโs a limited editionใ ใ ah I was pondering on whether I should wear it today or not ah
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 9, 2019
Hobi posted an airplane selca on Weverse!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191009 {23:53KST} | J-Hopeโs Moment๐weโll go and come back wellโ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/wJDzaeWDcu
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 9, 2019
Thursday 10/10:
Jimin’s travel vlog was released, featuring a montage of his trip with friends! An unofficial English sub version can be watched on Bangtan Subs.
Run BTS! episode 86 behind the scenes video was added for channel+ subscribers on V Live!
In an interview, Becky G talked about her collaboration with Hobi: “I will give all the credit to J-Hope on this. He was the one that found me; He had the song; He had been wanting to release it before he had even brought it to me and my team. Being a part of this whole Latin movement, itโs very similar to whatโs happening with K-Pop. Itโs taking over, and itโs a movement that is really showing the world that music is a universal language.”
Ahead of hosting the @MTVEMA Awards, @iamBeckyG talks about her latest career milestones and collaborating with @BTS_twt's J-Hope https://t.co/NixYJsClgx
— Variety (@Variety) October 10, 2019
WINGS anniversary!
Today 3 years ago, "WINGS" was released
โข #1 best selling album on Gaon in 2016
โข #1 US iTunes (first Korean album to achieve this)
โข #26 Billboard 200
โข #62 UK Official Chart (first Korean album to achieve this)
โข 1M+ copies sold on Gaon
โข 860M+ streams on Spotify pic.twitter.com/xS9UVHUEbk— BTS Charts (@btschartdata) October 10, 2019
Jungkook tweeted after his workout!
์ด๋๋ง์น๊ณ ๐ช pic.twitter.com/7WtnYtjPFU
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 10, 2019
Taehyung got bored and went on Weverse, and there’s so many posts that we won’t add them all here, so make sure to head over to the app to check them out!
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191010 {19:22KST} | V's Momentshall we play a game or something pic.twitter.com/iUrxVrC0gm
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 10, 2019
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191010 {19:24KST} | V's Momentmy friend sent me a message asking "heol, did you become a model?" (but) what is this? pic.twitter.com/r1KmkAWyVF
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 10, 2019
Jimin went on the app to tease Taehyung too.
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191010 {22:14KST} | Jiminโs postcan you look at my text too taehyung-ssi kekekekekekekeke so you were playing with armys here pic.twitter.com/YwHkDYsFoV
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 10, 2019
โ BTS Weverseใ
โ191010 {22:16KST} | Jiminโs postkekekekekeke cute, please come over after you have fun playing together (with armys) pic.twitter.com/ZUezRmNrN7
— BTS WEVERSE UPDATE (@btsweverse_up) October 10, 2019
Friday 10/11:
Ahead of their show in Saudi Arabia, Hyundai tweeted this picture of the members!
[#HMG] #PALISADEwithBTS
Supporting your first in Saudi Arabia! ๐ #Hyundai #BTS #๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ #BTSxHyundai #hyundaipalisade #PALISADE #BTSHyundai #hyundai_palisade #Riyahd #Speakyourself #tourBTS pic.twitter.com/2pCbDpKqRK— Hyundai Motor Group (@HMGnewsroom) October 11, 2019
Jungkook’s travel vlog was released, featuring a workout session! An unofficial English sub version can be watched on Bangtan Subs.
BTS backup dancers did the CNS challenge!
BTS’ concert in Saudi Arabia was streamed live on V Live!
The members tweeted after their concert in Saudi Arabia!
[#์ค๋์๋ฐฉํ] Hello, Riyadh!
๋ ๋ ํ ๋ณ์ด์ ๐ซ
๋น์ด ๋์ค ์๋ฏธ ๊ณ ๋ง์์!
์๋ฏธ ์๋ธ๋ธ๐#๋ฆฌ์ผ๋1ํ์ฐจ๊ณต์ฐ pic.twitter.com/llLMCsjvbe— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) October 11, 2019
์ค๋ ๊ณต์ฐ ๋๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด์ (์ ๊ตญ์ด๊ฐ ํด์ค ๋ณด์ ) pic.twitter.com/H848ZYdiGA
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 11, 2019
์ค๋ ์ฌ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค!๐
์ด๊ฒ๋ ๊ฐ์ด ํด์คฌ๋๋ฐ…ใ ๐ข pic.twitter.com/VPFB6at8VH— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 11, 2019
๐๐ pic.twitter.com/CgXQgSUb1d
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 11, 2019
๐ARMY๐ pic.twitter.com/LJiHOBIJY2
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 11, 2019
์ด๋!! ๐ช pic.twitter.com/VDZKzlFx9W
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 11, 2019
Live streaming for the final Love Yourself concerts was announced!
BTS WORLD TOUR 'LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF' [THE FINAL] ๋ผ์ด๋ธ ์ค๊ณ ์๋ด (+ENG)
โถ LIVE STREAMING (Oct. 26) https://t.co/eQMhORU9Rn
โถ LIVE VIEWING (Oct. 27) https://t.co/VZM1AyLxub#BTS #๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ #SPEAK_YOURSELF #THEFINAL #BTS_LIVESTREAMING #BTS_LIVEVIEWING pic.twitter.com/zkJUX4EzSt— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) October 12, 2019
Saturday 10/12:
Happy Birthday Jimin๐!
(Editor’s note: Jimin’s birthday is on October 13, but celebrations start at midnight in Korea, which is October 12 internationally!)
Jimin went on V Live to celebrate his birthday with ARMY!
And the rest of the BTS members took to twitter to celebrate/tease Jimin for his birthday!
์ง๋ฏผ์ ์์ผ ์ถํํด ์ธ์๊ฐ๋์ ์ผ์ด pic.twitter.com/ZaBRwXu5xI
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์ง๋ฏผ์ ์์ผ ์ถํํ๋ค ์ฌํด๋ ๋ง์ด ๋จน๊ณ ํค ์ฅ์ฅ ํฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ #์๊ฐํ์ด์ผ #์ง๋ฏผ์์ผใ ใ #์ฌ๊ธฐ๋์์ง์์ผ์๋ #ํ๊ตญ์12์์ง๋ฌ์ผ๋๊น
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์์ผ ์ถํํฉ๋๋ค ์ง๋ฏผ์จ #๋จ์ค์ดํ pic.twitter.com/KcKKMzQ12a
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์ง๋ฏผ์ดํ ์์ผ์ถํํด์! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ์ํด์๐#์ง๋ฏผ์์ผใ ใ #์ง์ง๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ค์ํ๋ฒ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ญํด๋๋ฉ์๋๊ฑฐ์๋๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด#์์ง์๊ณ ์๋๋ณธ๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ด๋ง์์ง๋ฏธ์ํด#๋๋๋๋๋๋๋ฌด๋ฏธ์ํด #์์์์ํด์ด์ฉ์์๋ํ๋จ์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์๊ฐํด๋์ ์ฌ์ง์ด์ฐฐ๋ก์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์ฌ๋ํด pic.twitter.com/1eQSkKceyZ
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์ง๋ฏผ์ดํ ์์ผ์ถํํด์! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ์ํด์๐#์ง๋ฏผ์์ผใ ใ #์ง์ง๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ค์ํ๋ฒ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ญํด๋๋ฉ์๋๊ฑฐ์๋๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด#์์ง์๊ณ ์๋๋ณธ๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ด๋ง์์ง๋ฏธ์ํด#๋๋๋๋๋๋๋ฌด๋ฏธ์ํด #์์์์ํด์ด์ฉ์์๋ํ๋จ์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์๊ฐํด๋์ ์ฌ์ง์ด์ฐฐ๋ก์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์ฌ๋ํด pic.twitter.com/1eQSkKceyZ
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์ง๋ฏผ์ดํ ์์ผ์ถํํด์! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ์ํด์๐#์ง๋ฏผ์์ผใ ใ #์ง์ง๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ค์ํ๋ฒ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ญํด๋๋ฉ์๋๊ฑฐ์๋๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด#์์ง์๊ณ ์๋๋ณธ๋ฐ๋ฏธ์ํด #๋ด๋ง์์ง๋ฏธ์ํด#๋๋๋๋๋๋๋ฌด๋ฏธ์ํด #์์์์ํด์ด์ฉ์์๋ํ๋จ์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์๊ฐํด๋์ ์ฌ์ง์ด์ฐฐ๋ก์ด์์ด๋ฏธ์ํด #์ฌ๋ํด pic.twitter.com/1eQSkKceyZ
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
#ํ์ด์ผ pic.twitter.com/GbjMqXOW8a
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
์์์ง๋ฏผ ํฐ์ง๋ฏผ #๋จ์ค์ฌ์ง pic.twitter.com/fJwfUrHJE1
— ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ (@BTS_twt) October 12, 2019
[#์ง๋ฏผ์์ผใ ใ ]
1013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CUTE SEXY LOVELY
CHARMING JIMIN#JIMIN #์ง๋ฏผ์์ผ์ถํ๋ต๊ธ๋ฃ์ด์ฃผ์ธ์#์ง๋๋ฅ์ด๋งค๋ ฅ์๋ #ํ ์์งํ ๋ฒ pic.twitter.com/xEMq5Yl2ep— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) October 12, 2019
A new Bangtan Bomb was released, titled “Jacket shooting in the bathroom – BTS.”
The music video for “FAKE LOVE” surpassed 600 million views!
'FAKE LOVE' becomes @BTS_twt's 3rd MV to surpass 600 MILLION+ YouTube views!
๐ #FAKELOVE600M ๐
(https://t.co/ZQyppDm8Fx) pic.twitter.com/kTT4uTw2fN
— worldwideBTS ๐ (@btsanalytics) October 12, 2019
Upcoming BTS dates:
๐Jimin’s Birthday 10/13
๐Run BTS 10/15
๐Love Yourself: Speak Yourself Seoul 10/26
๐Love Yourself: Speak Yourself Seoul 10/27
๐Love Yourself: Speak Yourself Seoul 10/29
๐Run BTS 10/29
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