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Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey (stylized as MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ~THE JOURNEY~) is the fourth Japanese and eighth overall studio album by South Korean boy band BTS.The band's first full-length Japanese offering in two years since Face Yourself (2018), the album was released on July 14, 2020, through Universal Music Japan and Big Hit Entertainment.
In March 2021, "Stay Gold" became BTS' first Japanese song—second song overall after "Dynamite"—to surpass 100 million on-demand streams in Japan. BTS is the first foreign artist in the chart's history to have two songs achieve this. [36] In the United States, "Stay Gold" debuted at number one on the World Digital Song Sales chart. [37]
[72] [73] [74] The music video is the fastest in YouTube history to cross the 200 million mark, in just four days and twelve hours after release, [75] [76] and the fastest by a music group to surpass 400 million views, doing so on September 26, 35 days after release. [77]
[215] [216] On June 19, BTS released the Japanese single, "Stay Gold", from their fourth Japanese album, Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey, which was released worldwide on July 14. [217] [218] It surpassed 564,000 copies in its first week, breaking the record for highest first week album sales by male foreign artists in Japan. [219]
It was the sixth best-selling single of 2019 in Japan and received a million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) only a month after its release, making BTS the first male foreign artist to achieve this. The single album was later awarded as one of the top five singles of the year at the 2020 Japan Gold Disc Awards.
The Japanese version of the song was released on May 10, 2017, through Universal Music Japan, as a single album that included the B-side tracks "Spring Day" and "Not Today", both also in Japanese. It is a moombahton, trap, and tropical house song with influences of dancehall and reggaeton. The song's lyrics address the pain of addictive love.
South Korean singer Jungkook has released one studio album and twelve singles.As a member of South Korean boy band BTS, he performed the solo songs "Begin", "Euphoria", and "My Time" for the band and recorded the soundtrack song "Stay Alive" for the BTS-based webtoon 7Fates: Chakho.
BTS, the Best (stylized in all caps) is the second Japanese-language compilation album by South Korean boy band BTS. It was released on June 16, 2021, through Big Hit Music , Universal Music Japan sublabel Virgin Music and Def Jam Recordings .