On this week's show: the countdowns to the new single have begun, tiny BTS debuts, and more.

Intro song: 10000 Hours, Jungkook (SoundCloud)

Featured image: Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash

• Data Drop
• News
  • BTS announces single title and ARMY sets streaming goals
  • Jungkook releases new cover
  • New Global ARMY Fanclub Membership information released
  • Tiny Tans on the way
  • New BTS series debuting in August
  • BTS Nominated for VMAs… and it's still not the big ones
  • BTS appearing on I-LAND
  • Baskin Robbins Korea releases ads starring BTS
• Next Week
• Last Word: The single is a comeback

Data Drop

Run BTS Ep 110 (Weverse)

Learn Korean with BTS Ep 21: Dialects (Weverse)

Q&A Time - Stories Behind BT21 UNIVERSE (YouTube)

BT21 Universe 3 Animation Ep 08 - BT21 Become Baby (YouTube)

Chart Links

BTS Chart Twice As Many Bestselling Albums As The Beatles This Week (Forbes)

BTS's 'Love Yourself: Answer' Is Now The Second Korean Album To Spend 100 Weeks On The World Chart (Forbes)

New BangtanTV Videos

[BANGTAN BOMB] I Prayed That I Could Get to My Part - BTS (방탄소년단)

[EPISODE] BTS (방탄소년단) @ Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2020

Etc

BTS's "Lights" Is 1st Original Japanese Song By Korean Artist To Go Silver; BLACKPINK's "Kill This Love" Earns Them 1st RIAJ Certification (Soompi)

Halsey, Collabs EP (Spotify)

Articles

Can BTS Top The Billboard Hot 100 With Their New English Single? (Forbes)

How BTS is redefining art for the female gaze (Revolutionaries @ Medium)

BTS is one of the biggest music sensations in history. Here's a look back on their meteoric rise to stardom. (Insider)

News

Form to pre-save Dynamite on Spotify

Dynamite countdown clocks, Columbia Records

Funds for Bangtan

International Funding Bases, Funds for Bangtan

BTS share title of upcoming English single (NME)

BTS Releasing New Song Next Month (Pitchfork)

BTS is Releasing a New Single in August (Seventeen)

BTS Has a New Song Coming Soon: 'We Wanted to Share Some Positive Energy' (Billboard)

Smeraldo blog post 7, Madam Lenomond and the Flower Card

The Smeraldo Story (The BTS Effect)

10000 Hours, Jungkook (SoundCloud)

Dan + Shay 'would love to collab' with BTS' Jungkook as he nails '10,000 Hours' cover (Inquirer)

[NOTICE] BTS GLOBAL OFFICIAL FANCLUB ARMY MEMBERSHIP Renewal and New Signup Information (Weverse)

TinyTAN official Twitter

Namjoon, Unbreakable Cuteness (TinyTAN Twitter)

Jin, Worldwide Cutie (TinyTAN Twitter)

Yoongi, Sweetie with Swagger (TinyTAN Twitter)

Hobi, Little Hope Right Here (TinyTAN Twitter)

Jimin, Lovely Little Angel (TinyTAN Twitter)

Taehyung, Precious Baby Bear (TinyTAN Twitter)

Jungkook, Adorable Golden Baby (TinyTAN Twitter)

[In the SOOP BTS ver.] Official Teaser 1 (YouTube)

'In the SOOP BTS ver.' Exclusive VOD Available for Purchase (Weverse)

BTS to release new reality series, 'In the SOOP' (UPI)

There's Nothing More Beautiful Than BTS in Nature (Paper Magazine)

K-Pop superstars BTS filmed their new reality show in this lakeside Airbnb (Lonely Planet)

MTV VMAs 2020 Voting Page

Baskin Robbins Korea Ads (Instagram):

• Namjoon and Yoongi - 'Rhyme Play Episode'
• Jin, Hobi, and Taehyung - 'Word Chain Episode'
• Jimin and Jungkook- 'Playing Dumb Convo Episode'

Next Week

03 Aug, Mon: Learn Korean with BTS Ep 22, 9PM KST 04 Aug, Tues: BTS Countdown to Single, Date 2, 12AM KST 04 Aug, Tues: In the SOOP pre-order begins, 6PM KST 04 Aug, Tues: Run BTS Ep 111, 9PM KST 05 Aug, Wed: Baskin Robbins Jimin and Jungkook commercial release 05 Aug, Wed: BTS Countdown to Single, Date 3, 12AM KST 07 Aug, Fri: BTS Countdown to Single, Date 4, 12AM KST 07 Aug, Fri: Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey international physical release

Last Word

The single is a comeback

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