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South Korean supergroup BTS is to go on "temporary hiatus" so its members can pursue solo careers.

BTS will become stronger that way.” They used the FESTA dinner to reminisce of their long time together and promised to reunite in the future, with Suga keen to point out the band was on hiatus and not officially finished, saying: “It’s not like we’re disbanding.” “I always thought that BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole ‘idol’ system is that they don’t give you time to mature,” said RM. “You have to keep producing music and keep doing something.”

The group consists of artists RM, Jin, V, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin and Jungkook. "We're going into a hiatus now," Suga said. However a representative for the group ...

"I think that change is what we need right now," J-Hope said. "I think 90 percent of our fans would root for us no matter what kind of music or direction we choose," V said. I can't be doing group stuff and then suddenly turning the focus to my own work like flipping a switch," RM continued. "In the past, I could still balance working on music alone and doing our group promotions but now I cant do them together. And after I get up in the morning and get makeup done there's no time left for growth," group member RM said. However a representative for the group told CNN, "To be clear, they are not on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats."

They're even planning collaborations, like a possible upcoming Jimin-Jin song. “We're each going to take some time to have fun and experience lots of things,” ...

The band was particularly able to cross over in the U.S., earning the first Korean No. 1 album in the U.S. in 2018 with Love Yourself: Tear, the first Korean-language No. 1 song in the U.S. in 2020 with “Life Goes On,” and the first Grammy nomination for a Korean act in 2020. A representative for BTS shifted into stan damage control, telling Pitchfork the band is “not on hiatus.” The rep added the group would “take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats.” Still sounds like a hiatus to us, but sure! The K-pop superstars announced a hiatus in their June 14 “dinner party” video (as they celebrated with a delicious-looking spread of Korean food and liquor). The band explained the hiatus would be to focus on members’ solo projects, coming after the news that J-Hope would headline Lollapalooza solo next month. “We’re each going to take some time to have fun and experience lots of things,” Jungkook told fans in Korean. “We promise we will return someday even more mature than we are now. In total, the band has four No. 1 albums, six No. 1 songs, and two Grammy nominations, along with multiple massively popular tours. I hope that you could give us your blessing.” That promise is key, after past boy bands (*cough* One Direction) have announced hiatuses and never re-formed afterward.

BTS, the superstar K-pop group, is taking another hiatus — this time so members can pursue solo projects.

"But right now, we've lost our direction and I just want to take some time to think and then return, but that feels rude to our fans and like I'm letting down their expectations." J-Hope and Suga have both released solo mixtapes in the past. I wanted to shed that off for a little bit and leave myself alone," RM said. "I think BTS will become stronger that way." In it, the group discussed the highs and lows of their industry. The video was part of the group FESTA celebration, which marks the group’s ninth anniversary.

Korean boy band BTS celebrated its ninth anniversary with a shocking announcement: The group is going on hiatus. RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, ...

NSYNC has technically been on hiatus since 2002, and members of the band fun. Calling the band successful would be an understatement: In 2019, BTS was the first group since the Beatles to have three No. 1 hits in a year on Billboard’s Top 200. One Direction famously went on an indefinite hiatus in January 2016 and have yet to reunite.

The boy band announced their break during a dinner filmed for social media. The group officially debuted in 2013.

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“We're each going to take some time to have fun and experience a lot of things,” said Jung Kook to their fans. No details about future BTS collaborations or the solo projects were announced Tuesday. BTS has a global fanbase that follows the group and members online and in recent years the group's profile has rose overseas. Members will be focusing more on solo projects at this time,” the statement said.

Members of the K-pop juggernaut said in a video conversation that they wanted time to explore their individual artistic identities.

And future solo performances are already on the books: Earlier this month, Lollapalooza, a music festival in Chicago, announced that J-Hope would be a headliner at the event this summer. While chatting and reminiscing over a meal, the members — J-Hope, RM, Jin, Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook — touched on some of the challenges they were facing as artists, including the pressure to keep churning out hit songs. “We’ve talked among ourselves several times and we believe it’s good to take some time apart,” J-Hope, one of the members, said in the video.

El grupo está formado por los artistas RM, Jin, V, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin y Jungkook. Anuncian conciertos de BTS en Las Vegas en 2022: fechas y preventa de ...

Y esto en últimas conduce a mucho éxito. Eso es lo que estoy tratando de hacer. Y después de que me levanto por la mañana y me maquillo, no hay tiempo para crecer”, compartió RM, miembro del grupo. Estamos tratando de encontrar nuestra identidad y eso es un proceso largo y agotador”, agregó Jimin. “El problema con el K-pop y todo el sistema de ídolos es que no te dan tiempo para madurar. “Antes podía balancear trabajar solo en la música y hacer nuestras promociones grupales, pero ahora no puedo hacer las dos cosas. Pero se tomarán un tiempo para explorar algunos proyectos en solitario en este momento y permanecer activos en varios formatos diferentes”.

Los Ángeles (EE.UU.), (EFE).- Los integrantes del grupo coreano BTS, máximos representantes del fenómeno musical K-Pop, anunciaron su separación temporal ...

Los Ángeles (EE.UU.), (EFE).- Los integrantes del grupo coreano BTS, máximos representantes del fenómeno musical K-Pop, anunciaron su separación temporal tras nueve años carrera conjunta con el fin de centrarse en sus carreras individuales. Tienes que continuar produciendo música y haciendo algo”, justificaba RM. Los Ángeles (EE.UU.), (EFE).- Los integrantes del grupo coreano BTS, máximos representantes del fenómeno musical K-Pop, anunciaron su separación temporal tras nueve años carrera conjunta con el fin de centrarse en sus carreras individuales.

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El grupo tuvo una participación en la Asamblea General de la ONU y fueron a la Casa Blanca para hablar con el presidente Joe Biden de maneras para reducir la violencia contra los asiáticos-estadounidenses. No se anunciaron detalles sobre futuras colaboraciones de BTS o sus proyectos solistas el martes. “BTS no se está dando una pausa, los integrantes seguirán enfocándose en proyectos solitas en este momento”, señala el comunicado.

BTS anunciaron su separación por un tiempo indefinido. Los integrantes de la sensación global dijeron que se tomarán un tiempo para enfocarse en sus ...

El grupo tuvo una participación en la Asamblea General de la ONU y fueron a la Casa Blanca para hablar con el presidente Joe Biden de maneras para reducir la violencia contra los asiáticos-estadounidenses. El integrante de la banda Suga preguntó al grupo si podían hablar sobre porqué iban a estar en una pausa al sentarse para una cena en grupo. “BTS no se está dando una pausa, los integrantes seguirán enfocándose en proyectos solitas en este momento”, señala el comunicado.

FILE - BTS arrives at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. The group says they are taking time to focus on solo projects.

“We're each going to take some time to have fun and experience a lot of things,” said Jung Kook to their fans. No details about future BTS collaborations or the solo projects were announced Tuesday. BTS has a global fanbase that follows the group and members online and in recent years the group's profile has rose overseas. Members will be focusing more on solo projects at this time,” the statement said.

South Korean boy band say in a video they are 'exhausted' and 'going through a rough patch' – but will return 'a stronger group'

The group has twice been nominated for a Grammy but has yet to win. BTS’s label enjoyed a surge in profits during the pandemic, despite holding fewer concerts. “I’ve always thought that BTS was different than other groups,” he continued. J-Hope said that time apart could help BTS “become a stronger group,” and that the time was “important ... for BTS’ second chapter.” Jimin, 26, said the members are “slowly trying to figure things out now” and that “we’re starting to think about what kind of artists we each want to be remembered by our fans”. “But the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don’t give you time to mature.”

Shares of Hybe Co., the agency that manages the South Korean pop phenomenon BTS, plunged by a record after the band said they'll focus on individual ...

BTS dio la noticia en video durante la celebración de su "Festa dinner" por el noveno aniversario de la banda. El grupo está formado por los artistas RM, Jin, V ...

Y después de que me levanto por la mañana y me maquillo, no hay tiempo para crecer", compartió RM, miembro del grupo. Y esto en últimas conduce a mucho éxito. Eso es lo que estoy tratando de hacer. "El problema con el K-pop y todo el sistema de ídolos es que no te dan tiempo para madurar. "Antes podía balancear trabajar solo en la música y hacer nuestras promociones grupales, pero ahora no puedo hacer las dos cosas. Y al hacer eso, intentamos ser fieles a nosotros mismos". Pero se tomarán un tiempo para explorar algunos proyectos en solitario en este momento y permanecer activos en varios formatos diferentes".

Shares of agency that manages the pop phenomenon tanked a record 28 percent on news members will pursue solo projects.

The slump means that Hybe has given up almost all of its gains since its trading debut. Bangtan Boys, more commonly called BTS, made the announcement to pursue solo projects in a video posted on YouTube, which has already got more than 10 million views. Military service is mandatory for all men in South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea.

J-Hope will mark “the beginning with his upcoming solo album,” the HYBE message explains, with further information to be shared in due course.

It’s not the first time BTS has had a break. “It’s important for BTS to start our second chapter.” In short, it’s not the end.

La noticia la dieron los mismos integrantes de la banda BTS durante el evento online FESTA, que es parte de una celebración anual de su fundación.

Creo que ahora estamos empezando a pensar en qué tipo de artistas queremos ser para nuestros fans”, puntualizó Jimin. Tienes que seguir produciendo música y seguir haciendo algo”, reflexionó RM, quien además agregó que quiere tomarse el tiempo para pensar en la nueva dirección de BTS. En 2019, un representante de BTS habló sobre los informes de una pausa “extendida” para el grupo y explicó que, en cambio, fue un descanso “breve”.

She was, of course, reacting to the news that the massively successful K-pop group BTS was taking a break for an indefinite period. Titus was not alone in her ...

With the industry’s exponential growth in recent years, there’s now a multitude of rising bands that could quickly fill the gap while BTS takes a break. Lee Jin-hyeong, chief commercial officer at HYBE, told the conference that “the conscription laws continue to change in an unpredictable manner, which actually make things hard for our artists.” Since becoming the first Korean act to win a Billboard music award in 2017, BTS has been one of South Korea’s biggest exports, bringing in billions in ticket sales, sponsorships, music downloads and merchandise. Critics say that proposed exemptions would be bending the conscription rules to help the rich and powerful skip national duty. The venting session was a rare public acknowledgment of the intense nature of the K-pop industry, in which stars — referred to as “idols” — are trained from a young age, taught to look, speak, dress, dance and sing in specific ways. BTS announced during a live-streamed event Tuesday that its members were taking time off to pursue solo projects and take stock of how they could move forward as a group act.

Fans react to news that biggest boy band in the world is going on hiatus.

But members of BTS have already been releasing solo material. Lucy says all seven members of the group have "a lot to offer" as solo artists - but believe Jungkook could go on to a career that rivals some of the biggest names in pop. The seven members of BTS - Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook - are aged between 24 and 29, and Lucy says one of the key points made in the announcement was that the K-pop industry "doesn't really create space for maturity." In the group's statement, which was made during a televised dinner to mark their anniversary, BTS acknowledged they had been going through a "rough patch" and said that trying to find their identity had been "exhausting." She believes speaking honestly shows the groups "bravery" but also their "power" in the K-pop scene. "In K-pop, it's really not uncommon for groups that have seven, eight or nine members for the individuals in that group to have thriving solo careers but still very much be in their groups," she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

Los integrantes del grupo de K-pop anunciaron que perseguirán carreras solistas y la acción de la empresa que los maneja perdió casi el 25% de su valor en ...

El anuncio de la separación no sólo arrancó lágrimas a los fans de todas las edades, que la banda cuenta por millones. Ese día los siete integrantes del grupo se volvieron millonarios, ya que en la operación les fueron entregadas acciones por un valor equivalente a los USD 8 millones para cada uno. Las pérdidas a la capitalización bursátil de la empresa equivalen a unos USD 1.550 millones. No afectaría al dólar turista y tarjeta Al cierre de la sesión, las acciones de la empresa 24,87% con respecto al cierre del martes hasta cambiarse a 145.000 wones la unidad. Las acciones de Hybe habían tenido un rendimiento relativamente pobre en los últimos meses, y el director ejecutivo de la empresa y algunos miembros de BTS se deshicieron de acciones por un total de 10.000 millones de wones (7,75 millones de dólares) en diciembre.

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J-Hope, a rapper and dancer with effervescent stage presence, will release his in July, ahead of his first solo headline set at Lollapalooza – another record broken, as he’s the first Asian artist to headline Chicago’s longstanding festival. “We can’t tell you everything directly,” he says to the camera, “and that’s very sad and difficult at times. Around the dinner table, each of the seven members begins to describe – hesitantly at first, and then with confidence – that they are all working on individual albums. Dynamite, a sugary disco-pop track and their first fully English-language single, earned them their first No 1 in the US and their first Grammy nomination. And more than that, they have the emotions of their deeply passionate global fanbase, BTS Army, to contend with – as well as the weight of a nation’s expectations on their shoulders. In reassurance, Suga offers: “But when we look back on the past nine years, almost nothing went to plan. But at some point I haven’t been sure what kind of group we are [any more] and for me, it was a big deal that I didn’t know.” Despite their label’s humble origins, and in a K-pop industry then dominated by the “Big Three” music agencies, BTS set themselves apart from their peers through ferocious performances, a warm yet rebellious spirit, and a deeply tangible love for music backed by the underground hip-hop credentials of several of their members. They won their first major award in 2015, for the bitterly romantic pop track I Need U, and began a steady climb towards industry domination with introspective, philosophical lyrics and a knack for twisting their hip-hop beginnings into a number of global pop genres. After I get up in the morning and get makeup done there’s no time left for growth. They spoke at the United Nations assembly in 2021 after travelling there on diplomatic passports, and earlier this month visited the White House to discuss Asian inclusion and representation with President Biden, as well as the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Breaking so many records that yesterday the Guinness World Records tweeted, “BTS we’re going to miss you”, the group are the first Grammy-nominated K-pop group, the first to chart a primarily Korean-language single at No 1 in the US, and grossed $33.3m from just four gigs in Los Angeles last year.

Hybe stock (KRX: 352820) has parted with a quarter of its value following the announcement that BTS members intend to take a break.

Elsewhere, other K-pop companies are moving to increase their market presence and grow their artists’ audiences. However, multiple BTS members cashed in on their Hybe holdings a while back, possibly because South Korea’s military-service requirement is expected to split up the group this December in any event. BTS revealed the much-discussed hiatus in a more than hour-long “Dinner Party” video.