{"id":162558,"date":"2026-03-25T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162558"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:08:04","slug":"bts-arirang-joins-the-mlb-2026-opening-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-arirang-joins-the-mlb-2026-opening-week\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u201cARIRANG\u201d joins the MLB 2026 opening week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> is ready to embark on a new journey with more promotions for their full album, <em>\u201cARIRANG.\u201d<\/em> The idols are taking over the baseball diamond as part of<strong> Major League Baseball\u2019<\/strong>s 2026 season opening week.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24 KST, Billboard announced that tracks from BTS\u2019s<em> \u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em> have been selected as the official soundtrack for MLB\u2019s opening week social media content. <strong>\u201cFYA\u201d is one of the first features in the promotions, showcasing MLB stars such as Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, and Juan Soto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btschartsxdaily\/status\/2036580890051072153\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[NEWS] <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> will be first up to bat as Major League Baseball returns for another year. As revealed songs from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS_ARIRANG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS_ARIRANG<\/a> will soundtrack MLB\u2019s social content in honor of opening week.<\/p>\n<p>The news dropped via the first of three hype videos the Bangtan Boys and MLB will jointly\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMq4JfzUFQ\">pic.twitter.com\/BMq4JfzUFQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS Charts News (@btschartsxdaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btschartsxdaily\/status\/2036580890051072153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 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>A second row of videos is set to be released on March 25, with a <strong>third installment<\/strong> scheduled for next week. Ultimately, BTS is conquering the American market with their new music catalog. In addition, the idol will also be hosting a Spotify fan event and upcoming appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/p>\n<p>There wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if the idols make<strong> iconic appearances<\/strong> in upcoming baseball games to promote both MLB and their new album to a different audience. What an amazing week for BTS in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS is ready to embark on a new journey with more promotions for their full album, \u201cARIRANG.\u201d The idols are taking over the baseball diamond as part of Major League Baseball\u2019s 2026 season opening week. On March 24 KST, Billboard announced that tracks from BTS\u2019s \u201cARIRANG,\u201d have been selected as the official soundtrack for MLB\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162558","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162562,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162558\/revisions\/162562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162558"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=162558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}