BTS's 'Proof' sells 2 million copies on first day, title song 'Yet to Come' rises on charts

K-pop

Published: 12 Jun. 2022, 18:13

BTS's 'Proof' sells 2 million copies on first day, title song 'Yet to Come' rises on charts

BTS [BIG HIT MUSIC]

BTS' anthology album "Proof" sold over 2 million copies on the first day of its release on Friday. Its title song "Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" rose to the third position on the world’s biggest streaming service platform Spotify’s Daily Chart Global the same day. It also topped iTunes Top Songs charts in 97 different countries and regions.

According to Hanteo Chart, a Korean music chart, the anthology album sold a total of 2.15 million copies as of 11 p.m. Friday, just 10 hours after it was released. It was the second time for BTS’s album sales to surpass 2 million on the first day, after its fourth album, "Map of the Soul: 7," in 2020.

The song’s official music video, which also dropped on YouTube Friday, garnered 65 million views as of 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Scenes from the music video for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” which dropped Friday [BIG HIT MUSIC]

“Proof” consists of three CDs, the first filled with BTS’s greatest hits, including “I Need U” (2015), “Fire” (2016), “Spring Day” (2017) and “Dynamite” (2020).

The second CD focuses on songs that were sung solo or in sub-units, like “Stay” (2020), which features Jungkook, Jin and RM, “Outro: Ego” (2020), featuring J-Hope and “Friends” (2020), featuring Jimin and V.

The third CD is mainly comprised of demo versions of past songs like “Boy in Luv” (2014) and “DNA” (2017) and is only included on the physical copy of the album.

The album also has three new songs — “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” “Run BTS” and “For Youth” — as well as a remastered version of a song that was released only on YouTube and Spotify in 2013, “Born Singer.”

Scenes from the music video for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” which dropped Friday [BIG HIT MUSIC]

In “Yet To Come,” the band anticipates the future. “Was it honestly the best? Cause I just wanna see the next,” Jungkook sings in the first line, later finishing off the song with “You and I best moment is yet to come.”

“Yet To Come” looks back on the band’s journey from its debut to the present and promises fans that “the future will be even brighter.”

RM, Suga and J-Hope, who frequently take the helm of BTS’s songs, produced “Yet To Come” by sampling a “chipmunk soul” style, which was popular in the early 2000s.

Because the song “connects” the band’s past, present and future, the music video for “Yet To Come” features props from previous music videos, like the carousel that was shown in the music video for “Spring Day.”

“Run BTS,” which is the same name as the band’s variety show available to view on fan community platform Weverse and Naver’s V Live, is a song expressing BTS’s everlasting passion to move forward as musicians.

“For Youth,” which samples BTS’s song “Epilogue: Young Forever” (2016), is dedicated to ARMY, or BTS fans, according to Big Hit Music. The intro of the song includes actual fan chants from BTS concerts.

The lyrics thank fans for their devotion and support over the years.

“I’ll be with you, for the rest of my life, for the rest of my life,” V sings in the final verse.

Meanwhile, BTS will perform “Yet To Come” for the first time on its official YouTube channel “Bangtan TV” on June 13.

BY MOON SO-YOUNG, SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]