Just three months after his discharge from mandatory South Korean military duty, BTS‘ J-Hope is gearing up to hit the road and drop new solo Music. In a pair of posts on Thursday night (Jan. 9) the K-pop superstar announced the dates for his Hope On the Stage 2025 world tour, while teasing “new music on the way” in March.
The latter came with a teaser from the rapper/singer of a song with a laid back beat and soulful groove and a lilting sped-up backing vocal, though, for now, no new bars from the MC. In a YouTube video titled “Beginning of a New Dream,” J grooves to the song in what appears to be a trip to Los Angeles, recording vocals and listening back to the track and then snapping his fingers in joy at the end.
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“New music on the way 2025.03,” he wrote, suggesting the song will be out in March. The tune will mark J-Hope’s first new track since his discharge from the army last October. It will also be his first release since his March 2024 six-track EP Hope On the Street Vol. 1which featured collabs with his BTS bandmate Jungkook on “I Wonder,” as well as Benny Blanco and Nile Rodgers on “Lock/Unlock” and Le Sserafim’s Huh Yunjin on “I Don’t Know.”
But wait, there’s more. J-Hope will also hit the road for his Hope On the Stage world tour, which will kick off with a three-show hometown run at the KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea on February 28, March 1 and March 2. The outing will then hop over the the U.S. for a pair of gigs at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, followed by two-night stands in Chicago, Mexico City, San Antonio, Oakland and Los Angeles. It will then move to a run of shows in Asia, including double-down gigs in the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Taiwan.
Check out the teaser video and tour announcement (and dates) below.
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