BTS announced as the subject of mystery memoir

Consider it a solved mystery.

It turns out that a book with no title or cover that shot up the bestseller rankings at Amazon and Barnes & Noble is actually a biography of boy band sensation BTSaccording to The New York Times.

Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record Of BTS was written by journalist Kang Myeong-seok, along with members of the group, and translated into English by Anton Hur.

Initially, many fans had suspected the cryptic title to be a Taylor Swift biography or memoir, and pre-orders shipped massively as a result, including number one at Amazon.

The BTS biography is due out this summer via Flatiron Books and Big Hit Music.

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The biography was initially listed as ‘4C Untitled Flatiron Nonfiction Summer 2023’ on Amazon.

While little is known about the book, it was first revealed to be 544 pages and have a July 9 release date.

When rumors spread that it would be a Taylor Swift memoir, her Swiftie fans took to social media to point out that 544 joins 13, which is the pop superstar’s favorite song and date of birth in December, as reported by Billboard.

Swift’s devoted fans also theorized that the July 9 release date may have been a reference to her song Last Kiss.

But as true BTS aficionados know, July 9 is significant because it’s the date when the group’s millions of fans around the world celebrate Army Day, which is dedicated to their fandom as the day the name “Army” was first coined. was devised.

The upcoming July 9 is even more remarkable as it will mark the 10th anniversary of the Army Day tradition.

Now that the book has been confirmed to be a BTS biography, it is now being described as an “oral history of the K-Pop group in South Korea and the United States,” according to The New York Times.

Beyond the story: BTS’s 10-year record is currently on sale for $27 from Amazon and $29.99 for a Kindle version.

Fans can order the upcoming book online from Amazon and Barnes & Noble for $39.99.

10 Years and Counting: Formed in 2010, BTS has released nine studio albums, seven compilation albums, and six extended plays since 2013; they can be seen shortly after the release of the debut album in August 2013 in Seoul, South Korea

Main man: The group is formed around rapper RM (Kim Nam-joon), who serves as BTS leader

BTS was first formed in 2010, after Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, wanted to form a hip-hop group around RM (Kim Nam-joon), an underground rapper who was well known in the Seoul music scene at the time.

But after watching record sales continue to drop around the world, Si-hyuk changed course and decided to take a more marketable path and create an idol group, but one where the individuals would be free to express themselves and input into the music.

Along with RM, the group would eventually consist of fellow rapper J-Hope and Suga, as well as vocalists Jin, Jimin, V, and Jungkook.

Coming Up: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record Of BTS is scheduled for release on July 9; the group is pictured performing at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in April 2022

As of 2013, BTS has released nine albums, seven compilation albums, and six extended plays.

By 2018, the group had surpassed 10 million albums sold, setting a record for reaching that milestone in the shortest time (5½ years) of any Korean act to debut since 2000, with five million of those albums sold in South Africa. Korea. Korea that year alone.

BTS reached the milestone of 20 million physical albums sold in South Korea in April 2020, earning them the accolade as the best-selling Korean act of all time,

As of December 2022, BTS has sold over 38 million albums domestically.