The Ok-pop juggernaut BTS will drop an oral historical past of the crowd in South Korea and america on July 9, its U.S. writer, Flatiron Books, mentioned on Thursday.

The stock, “Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS,” was once written via the journalist Myeongseok Kang and individuals of the crowd, and it’ll be printed in South Korea via Obese Strike Track.

The inside track confirms intense fan hypothesis over a number of days that Flatiron would put up a nonfiction name a few popular culture phenomenon this summer season. The rumor unfold as soon as booksellers in america spotted terminating weekend {that a} thriller name with a July 9 drop life was once coming. It had an preliminary print run of a million copies and required booksellers to signal a testimony to book copies on e-newsletter generation.

Lovers looked for clues of who the thriller writer could be, zeroing in in the beginning on Taylor Fast and mentioning her widespread usefulness of the quantity 13 as proof. (The stock’s fresh announcement was once slated for June 13.) Fast had additionally highlighted the life July 9 in her most up-to-date book announcement.

However June 13 and July 9 also are vital dates within the BTS public. The crowd debuted at the first life, and BTS’s passionate fan bottom, Military — which stands for Lovable Consultant M.C. for Formative years — was once based on the second one. The stock’s drop will coincide with the fan team’s tenth per annum.

As speculations fixed, preorders drove the still-untitled stock up best-seller lists at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The English translation of the stock was once led via Anton Hur, in collaboration with Clare Richards and Slin Jung. The U.S. version might be 544 pages and include unique pictures, in step with Flatiron, and may have a primary printing of a million copies.

The crowd’s robust, very on-line fandom has grow to be well-known international, identified for supporting the crowd via purchasing a couple of variations of each and every bodily drop and working intricately coordinated social media campaigns. Devotees additionally lend a hand each and every alternative via translating BTS content material into English and alternative languages and offering tough fan communities.

It’s tough to overstate BTS’s affect, in song and past. Terminating month, the seven individuals of the crowd — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook — visited the White Area to talk towards anti-Asian American abhor crimes.

Since 2013, BTS has absolved 9 albums and 6 EPs and helped Ok-pop grow to be a dominant world power. In 2018, the crowd changed into the primary Ok-pop office to collision Refuse. 1 on Billboard’s book chart with “Love Yourself: Tear,” a feat it repeated two times in 2019 with “Love Yourself: Answer” and “Map of the Soul: Persona” — related a file poised via the Beatles.

In June 2022, nearest but every other Refuse. 1 book — the three-disc compilation “Proof” — BTS absolved a video on social media saying it was once happening hiatus so its individuals may just focal point on solo inventive tasks. “I should be writing about what I’m feeling and the stories I want to tell,” Suga mentioned, “but I’m just forcefully squeezing out words because I need to satisfy someone.” The clip drew greater than 16 million perspectives in two days. In October of terminating month, the crowd’s label showed that its individuals would enlist in South Korea’s army as required via legislation. A few of them have already got.

The hiatus was once wretched information now not just for BTS’s fervent fan bottom, but in addition for the leisure industry. The generation nearest the scoop poor, the book worth for Hybe, the South Korean leisure corporate in the back of the crowd, dropped 28 p.c, which shaved $1.7 billion off its marketplace worth. As the crowd’s reputation has grown, it has grow to be a pillar of South Korea’s economic system, contributing $3.5 billion yearly via 2020, in step with the Hyundai Analysis Institute.

Many fanatics say that past they’re attracted to BTS’s song and performances, they’re additionally impressed via its messages of affection and acceptance, that have led some to grow to be extra politically lively. “They’re really, really passionate people who just fight for what they love,” Nicole Santero, a fan who ran a data-focused BTS Twitter account, advised The Occasions in 2020. “Those characteristics translate well when you look at social issues.”

Caryn Ganz contributed reporting from Fresh York.