BTS takes break to focus on solo work

The seven “exhausted” members of the K-pop supergroup BTS have announced that they are taking time out from the band to focus on their solo careers, reports the Guardian.

The South-Korean boy band dropped the bombshell during their streamed annual dinner on Tuesday night, part of a celebration that marks their anniversary as a group.

“We’re going into a hiatus now,” said Suga, 29, about 20 minutes into the clip, which was posted on the group’s official YouTube channel.

At the dinner, J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin spoke about why they had decided to take a break.

RM, said that after BTS’s last few singles he “didn’t know what kind of group we were any more”, adding later the band’s members were “exhausted”.

During the video chat, Jimin, said the members were “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 Hybe, the entertainment company behind the band, later said the group were not taking a break and would be continue to work on projects as a group as well as individually.

Their latest anthology album “Proof” sold over 2 million copies on the first day. Its title track ‘Yet to Come’ has become the first song to reach the number one spot on Melon’s rebranded Top 100 chart.

The album consists of three new songs – ‘Yet to Come’, ‘RUN BTS’, and ‘For Youth’.

‘Proof’ became the second best-selling album on day one in the Hanteo chart, being beaten by BTS’s ‘Map of the Soul: 7’, which sold around 2.6 million copies on day one.