{"id":160375,"date":"2026-02-26T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=160375"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:12:49","slug":"ryan-tedder-praises-bts-album-arirang-ahead-of-official-march-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ryan-tedder-praises-bts-album-arirang-ahead-of-official-march-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tedder praises BTS\u2019 album ARIRANG ahead of official March release"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ryan Tedder confirms his contribution during Seoul concert<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic<\/strong> publicly confirmed his involvement in <strong>BTS\u2019 upcoming album \u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/strong> during the OneRepublic \u201cFrom Asia, With Love 2028\u201d concert in Seoul. Speaking to the audience, the songwriter, producer, and singer said he had worked on the project and described the album as one of the craziest experiences of his career. The comment immediately generated strong reactions from fans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/letit_goo00\/status\/2026147591436792111?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ryan Tedder from One republic on BTS &amp;Arirang\u2665\ufe0f\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83e\udee0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nx5mF501qr\">pic.twitter.com\/nx5mF501qr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; o!rul8 (@letit_goo00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/letit_goo00\/status\/2026147591436792111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The OneRepublic frontman explained that working with BTS impressed him deeply and stated that listeners would likely love the final result. However, he avoided sharing further details, joking that he might get into trouble if he said more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019ll say this. It absolutely blew me away how talented they (BTS) were. Honestly, it&#8217;s one of the craziest things I&#8217;ve ever worked on in my whole career. Ever. It\u2019s crazy. I think I know you&#8217;re going to love it. So that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<h2>ARIRANG will be BTS\u2019 fifth full-length album<\/h2>\n<p>BTS will release their fifth full-length album,\u201dARIRANG,\u201d on March 20, 2026. The album has sparked anticipation due to confirmed songwriting and producing contributions from Diplo, Jon Bellion, Max Martin, and other A-tier producers in the West. Anticipation increased further after ticket sales opened for their world tour of the same name, which will have the boy group perform across global cities in 82 tour stops. Ahead of the project\u2019s release, BTS will perform at\u00a0 Gwanghwamun Square, marking the first time a group has ever been allowed to perform in that venue.<\/p>\n<p><iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/prerelease\/1DcxHW214MCDxXju71RbvX?si=9850319221a54b55\" title=\"Spotify Embed: ARIRANG\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/prerelease\/1DcxHW214MCDxXju71RbvX?si=9850319221a54b55&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ryan Tedder, who has previously worked with artists such as Adele and Taylor Swift, has also collaborated with several KPop acts, including BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa and TWICE. His praise has raised expectations even more for the group\u2019s upcoming release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Tedder confirms his contribution during Seoul concert Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic publicly confirmed his involvement in BTS\u2019 upcoming album \u201cARIRANG\u201d during the OneRepublic \u201cFrom Asia, With Love 2028\u201d concert in Seoul. Speaking to the audience, the songwriter, producer, and singer said he had worked on the project and described the album as one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":160379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-160375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}