Kpopmart bts love yourself answer Continue album by South Korean boy band BTS 2018 compilation BTSLove Yourself: answerCompilation of the album BTSReleasedAugust 24, 2018 (2018-08-24)Recorded2016-20181 (digital) LanguageKoreanLabelBig HitiriverColumbiaVirginProducerPdoggBTS chronology Love Yourself: Tear (2018) Love Yourself: Answer (2018) Soul Map: Persona (2019) Physical ArtworkLe Album On The Right: Tear Yourself: Love Yourself: Answer (2018) Soul Map: Persona (2019) Album ArtworkLe right: Love Yourself: S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, S Versions, E, L, and F Singles from Love Yourself: Answer Idol Released: August 24, 2018 Love Yourself: Answer (stylized as LOVE YOURSELF 結 'Answer') is the third Korean language compilation of the album A South Korean boy band BTS. The album was released on August 24, 2018 by Big Hit Entertainment and is available in four different versions: S, E, L and F. The album contains twenty-five tracks (twenty-six for the digital version), including seven new songs, with the track Idol serving as the lead single. Most tracks from Love Yourself: Her, and Love Yourself: Tear, including some remixes. The album debuted at number one in Korea, Canada, Japan and the United States, becoming BTS' second album in the U.S. market. On November 9, 2018, Love Yourself: Answer became the first Korean album certified in the United States. It has also sold 60,000 copies in the UK, making BTS the first Asian silver-certified artist in the country. On November 7, 2019, it was reported that Love Yourself: Answer returned to the Billboard 200 on November 4 (No. 165). The album remained on the charts for 52 weeks, with no consecutive weeks, making the album first, and now, the only K-pop album to stay on the Billboard main album chart for a full year. The background and release of Love Yourself: Answer was first announced on July 16, 2018, and the following day the album was announced with seven new tracks. The album was conceived as the finale of the Love Yourself series, which combined the plot of the short book Love Yourself 起 Wonder, the EP Love Yourself 承 'Her' and the studio album Love 轉 'Tear', forming the track 起承轉結 (기승전결) (기승전결). Two versions of BTS' Jin in the trailer for Epiphany representing a personal journey. On August 6, Big Hit Entertainment released the note The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, part of a series of fictional notes pertaining to the BTS album concept, starting with their 2015 EP The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1. The note, written by BTS member Gene, said that he found in the story a notebook written by his father. The book discussed his father's failures. Three days later, on August 9, a trailer for the album was released with a new song called Epiphany. Solo described by Tamar Herman Billboard as building pop rock was performed by Jean, and speaks of finding love for himself. The song serves as one of the tracks for the album. The trailer is directed by Yong Sok Choi (Lumpens) and portrays several versions of Jin in the room, telling the story of a personal journey. Philip Merrill of the Recording Academy described the video as a feeling to go back and forth, in time and through different versions of yourself. Discussing Jin's performance of the video, Hong Hye Min of The Korea Times said it was good to act and emotionally, with Jin's sad, free voice. The promotional concept photos, which featured four different themes, were released on August 13 for versions of S and E and August 16 for versions of L and F. The S version contained elements inspired by the new romanticism, with BTS in bright red boxes surrounded by cameras, eyes, hands and amplifiers. The concept version of E contained a bright pastel, with BTS members in bubbles filled with fantastic elements of nature. The second set of teasers, versions of L and F, was brighter, with BTS members dressed in a mix of retro streetwear and formal jackets and suits. In addition, the L version contained black and white images, collages with contrasting bright photos. The official tracklist was released on August 20, showing that it will be a compilation album containing songs love Yourself: Her and Love Yourself: Tear, with a total of twenty-five tracks. The tracklist also announced remixes of previous BTS singles DNA, Mic Drop and Fake Love. The teaser Idol was released on August 22, 2018. On August 24, two hours before the release of Love Yourself: Answer, Big Hit Entertainment announced that an alternative version of Idol featuring Nicki Minaj would be included in the digital version of the album. The album was then released along with a music video for Idol. The music video for Nicki Minaj's Idol was released on September 6, 2018. Composition Some of the themes of the album include empowerment, youth, love and reflection, while the moods exhibited through the album are purifying, lively, confident, passionate and longing for many other things. The album genre features different types of pop music. Writer Melanie Fontana, who is working on Euphoria, wanted the choir to explode with something more than a shanty, but the crowd could also easily sing along. Ray Michael Jan Jr. stated that the song I'm Fine was a response to an earlier song he helped write called Save Me. A lot of drum and bass affected I'm Fine and they mixed a lot of different sounds to create it. On the title song Idol, Ali Tamposhi A member of Big Hit wanted the song to feel intense. The BTS promotion arrives at KBS Music Bank for a performance on August 31, 2018. On August 26, 2018, BTS held a press conference to discuss the album, as well as the BTS: Love Yourself world tour, which began the day before. They performed Idol and I'm Fine on various South Korean music shows during the week of August 26 with pre-recorded performances airing next week, including M Countdown, Music Bank, Show! Music by Core, and Inkigayo. A shortened version of Save Me from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever served as an intro track during the performance of I'm Fine on M Countdown. On August 30, BTS performed Idol at the second Soribada Best K-Music Awards, while Fake Love was performed for an encore. While in the United States on the North American leg of their Love Yourself tour, BTS performed Idol in the second semifinal episode of the thirteenth season of America's Got Talent, which aired on September 12. The band sang Idol on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Good Morning America on September 25 and 26, respectively, in addition to a sit-down interview on both shows. The bonus rendition of I'm Fine was also released on The Tonight Show's YouTube channel. On 1 October 2018, news emerged that BTS were due to appear on the BBC's Graham Norton show on 12 October, which was later confirmed by Big Hit Entertainment five days later. Critical Reception Professional RatingsReve ratingSource:AllMusic27Clash Music9/10'43BillboardFavorable 4'Love Yourself: Response Received Positive Reviews from Critics. Nemo Kim of the South China Morning Post gave the album four stars out of five and said, BTS rappers show their chops on solo tracks, the band sends a message to Korean youth about love for themselves, and the single Idol sees them inveterate traditional clothing and mix pop with ancient percussion as Minaj joins, praising the album as a cement place of BTS as kings of the genre. In a positive review, Taylor Glasby of Clash magazine described the album's narrative as an image of the fears, mistakes and thoughts we inflict on ourselves that remain acutely relativistic. She also said that the narrative serves to remind us that everyone has to make their own way, and there is no one size fits all response to achieving self-acceptance. However, for Answer: Love Myself, the track that completes the narration on the album, Glasby felt that he was lyrically superior, although playing instrumental too safely. Tamar Herman of Billboard praised the album, calling it the masterful culmination of many years of work and replete with meaning, the answer is undoubtedly a magnum opus from BTS that few other artists, boy bands or otherwise can ever hope to achieve. Awards lists end of year Rank Ref list. 20 minutos Albums 2018 that should not go unnoticed N/A (a) AllMusic The AllMusic 2018 Year in Review: Favorite Pop Albums N/A. 20 best K-pop albums of 2018: Critics' Picks 1 (46) Bravo This is the ten best K-pop album of the year 1 (47) City Pages Every #1 album of 2018, Place 16 DIY DIY's Albums of the Year 2018 2 49 Rolling Stone India 10 Best K-Pop Albums 2018 1 (50) Spinnaker Spinnaker in The Top 10 Albums of the Year 3 51 Uproxx 20 Must-Hear Pop Albums from 2018 16 Best Albums of 2018 8 (53) Yardbarker The 10 Best Pop Albums of 2018 N/A . 2018 MBC Plus X Genie Music Awards Digital Album of the Year won 55 Korea Popular Music Awards Best Album Won 56 2019 Golden Disc Awards Disc Bonsang Won (57) Disc Daesang Won Gaon Chart Music Album of the Year – 3rd quarter won 58 and 60 Korean Music Album of the Year, Nominated for Best Pop Album, nominated for The Japan Gold Disc Awards Best 3 Albums (Asia) ) Won 62 Gaffa-Prisen Awards Best International Album Won (63) The Fact Music Awards Best Album won commercial performance between July 18 and 24, the first six days of the pre-order period for Love Yourself: Answer, iriver Inc reported that the album sold more than 1.51 million copies, surpassing its predecessor Love Yourself: Tear as the most pre-ordered album in Korea.