Bts – Love Yourself: Tear

The BTS Love Yourself: Tear vinyl marks a genuine first: BIGHIT’s official pressing of one of the most commercially successful K-pop albums of the modern era, now available on 12″ for the first time. Released originally in 2018, Love Yourself: Tear hit the top of charts worldwide, including a historic debut at number one on the Billboard 200, making BTS the first Korean act to reach that position. This is the record that brought that moment into physical, analogue form.

About the Album and Why It Matters

By 2018, BTS had built one of the most dedicated global fanbases in contemporary music, but Love Yourself: Tear was the release that broke them into mainstream Western markets in a way no K-pop group had managed before. The album includes “FAKE LOVE,” a brooding, hard-edged track that demonstrated the group’s range well beyond polished pop convention, and “The Truth Untold,” featuring Steve Aoki, which brought a more delicate, melodic dimension to the record. Together they represent the tonal scope that made this album connect across markets and demographics. It is a significant cultural document, not just a commercial one.

BTS Love Yourself: Tear Vinyl: Format and Package Details

This pressing comes on a standard 12″ LP under catalog number BIGHIT 8753213. The package goes well beyond a bare-bones vinyl release. Included alongside the record is an outer sleeve, a booklet, a hologram photo card set containing seven cards, a post card, and a sticker set with two pieces. BIGHIT has put together a collector-oriented package that respects the visual identity the group and their team have always treated as central to the BTS release experience. For fans who engaged with the original CD and photobook releases, this translates that same attention to physical presentation into a vinyl format.

Who Should Want This Record

There are two clear audiences here. The first is the BTS collector who has followed the group across formats and wants this album represented properly in a record collection. The vinyl format adds weight and presence to music that has always had strong sonic production behind it. The second is the broader pop and K-pop vinyl collector who tracks significant cultural releases and recognises this album as one that genuinely shifted the landscape of global pop in the late 2010s. The fact that this is the first-ever vinyl pressing, combined with an inclusive physical package, makes this a meaningful addition to a collection rather than a redundant duplicate. Catalog number BIGHIT 8753213 is the one to know.