IN THE SOOP S2 E1 + This months news

Today we finally started season 2 of ITS. The staff went all out to make sure everything was perfect! I'm excited to see where this season takes us. 

Today’s Schedule:

1. Latest news from BTS (content below)
2. In The Soop S2 Ep1 on Twitch! 

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Reminders:

• This weeks update is covering all of BTS news for August, if something is missed or if details are not explicitly shared it is for the sake of time for both me and Jim, this is a HUGE update week and I already write too much as is, have mercy

1- Latest news from BTS

SUGA:

His AMAZING tour is sadly officially over after this past week's last three encore shows. He really put his all into each and every one of his shows and somehow still wrapped it all up with more energy and heart. Words cannot express how incredibly proud I am of him and what he has been able to accomplish in his past decade of following his dream.

All of his brothers attended his last shows to show their support and even when there is no doubt how much unbreakable love, trust, and respect they have for each other, Yoongi still showed us once again by giving his stage to a member each night. Once again, so proud of him and his journey- this tour was definitely one of a kind.

Though it was not unexpected, it still hit hard seeing that immediately after his tour wrapped up Yoongi had officially initiated the military enlistment process. He has applied for the termination of his enlistment postponement and will soon be receiving a date and location for his enlistment- quick reminder to never share leaked military information and to respect the members privacy.

I know seeing our boys leave is heartbreaking and please reach out to someone if you need extra help working through this time and just know that they can and have seen success in all areas of their life and will be well taken care of as they take part in a new journey in their life. Time and time again they assure us that we will meet again and they have yet to break a promise. Knowing yoongi he is working hard filming content to be released while he’s away (new suchwita episodes are still coming out) so let’s enjoy these few weeks we have and send him off with love and respect when it’s time 💜

V:

His first solo album Layover is officially coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Can you tell I’m excited)

Before we get into all the announcements made about this album as a whole, Tae pre-released two songs (Love Me Again & Rainy Days) and they are exactly what I expected from our old artistic soul and its perfection. For 2 B-side pre-released they already had a combined 10 Million streams in the first day, lands #5&6 on spotify's counter for biggest k-soloist song debuts in 2023, #1&2 on 60 iTunes Charts including Worldwide, US, and UK! So proud of him and make sure to stream when you can!

Layover (cover of the album is Taes dog yeontan) is dropping September 8th (yeontans birthday) with three versions and presale is now available! Tae has given us all the album information from tracklist, song details, and album contents! (Link for photos)

1. Rainy Days In this track, V's voice melds beautifully with the sound of rain and everyday white noises, tugging at the listeners' heartstrings.

2. Blue An homage to old school R&B with a modern twist, adding a special flair to the song.

3. Love Me Again A light and captivating R&B track with an alluring vibe that lingers long. V's signature baritone shines through in this track.

4. Slow Dancing The focus track of this album, a '70s romantic soul style track that exudes a laid-back and free-spirited feeling, just as the title suggests.

5. For Us A pop R&B track that leaves a lasting impression of the entire album. It serves as an epilogue, stirring up deep emotions with V's vocals and unique lyrics.

6. Slow Dancing (Piano Ver.) A piano arrangement of the focus track "Slow Dancing," which offers a different allure from the original as a bonus track

The music videos for all five tracks will also be revealed.

Some quick but still important updates, he went live for a whole 30 minutes to talk about his pre-released song and his album and chat with army! He will be on the cover of 3 (THREE!) magazines (POP, ARENA, W) and all of the photos that have been released so far once again prove that Tae is a model. At the end of the month he will also be on Tiny Desk Korea! So excited for what is coming up for him and hope he stays healthy!

(rip me)

RM:

He started of the month in Japan working on a secret schedule but shared many photos of his trip and we know he spent a lot of time around art and art workspaces so only time will tell what he’s been up to there.

During his time on stage for day3 of yoongi's encore concert he sang “strange” and blessed us with an unfinished untitled song that he has been working on and it’s such a namjoon song, can’t wait to hear the finished version and the rest of the songs he’s been working on.

He went live yesterday for 40 minutes to chat with army where he shared that since it’s been a while that he’s been on stage he was shaking a lot, he still did amazing though! He said that he’s still working on his album that will be coming out in the near future and even listened to love letter! After listening he said “even though we're doing solo projects on our own, what i'm thinking is that even though i'm working on my solo project, this is just a vacation, to get back to where i was which is bts and army. so all the solo is just a journey but it is an important journey for chapter 2. but a journey to get back home safe eventually when we get back and reunite together in 2025.”

He also sadly shared that his family dog Moni passed away a few months ago, sending condolences to him and his family losing a pet can be incredibly hard.

Wishing him the best in working on his music and all other endeavors!

JK:

In seven is successful news: The song becomes the most streamed track on Spotify in 1 week (male) with 89.7M streams, the fastest time for a track to reach 10M streams on Spotify, he earned his fourth win on Show Champion, he becomes the fastest kpop soloist to hit 1.7B streams, becomes the first Asian act to spend 20 days at #1 on the Global Spotify Chart, and JK has now earned as many days at #1 on the global Spotify chart as all other K-Pop acts combined AND doubled. SO PROUD.

He has been living his best Gen Z life. After accidentally sharing his private tik tok account with army originally named “Ian” now changed to “letjungcook7”, he’s been on the app liking army memes and army’s seven dance challenges (even posting his own challenge with his good friend Mingyu). Then he went live for the reasonable time of 30 minutes and army teased him the entire time calling him Ian.

He went on stage for Day1 of Yoongis encore to perform “burn it” and “seven” and afterwards went on live for two hours and a half and spent the entire time upset at himself for making a mistake that no one even noticed and promised to do better next time as if his performance wasn’t anything but amazing.

Lots of behind the scenes content from Calvin Klein to dance seven promotions has been released in this past weeks and new Calvin Klein ads has also been released making army suffer but our suffering is nothing new.

JIMIN:

He finally performed Tony Montana with yoongi during day2 of his encore shows and it was worth the wait, an incredible performance from the both of them!! He also flawlessly performed “like crazy” and again, it was incredible and I’m so proud of him.

Jimin's 'FACE' has now surpassed 900 million streams on Spotify. It's the fastest album by a K-Pop soloist to hit this milestone.

We got new photos from Tiffany & Co. and yes of course they are amazing, beautiful jewelry really suits his angelic beauty.

Hope he is doing well and is healthy!

JHOPE:

New photos for Esquire Korea was released and as always he looks amazing. He also became the most followed Korean Solo Artist on Spotify with 15.5M followers and is the second most followed Korean male act, first being BTS! So proud and miss him so much!

JITB Hope edition releases in less than a week! Be sure to order your copy if you haven’t yet and are able to!

JIN:

For no apparent reason as far as I know, super tuna earned its biggest streaming day of all-time on Spotify on August 5th with over 1.07M streams. He and Jhope looked healthy and happy while at Yoongis concert and so glad to see our boys together once again, waiting not so patiently until Jin back and in charge.