Rolling Stone: RM solo cover
Rolling Stone’s solo cover story on BTS’ RM has gone viral on social media — the magazine’s post has 25k+ likes — and the piece quotes RM discussing solo collaborations with artists like Little Simz and Moses Sumney. The cover and interview are driving renewed attention to RM’s solo trajectory outside BTS. (Rolling Stone on X)
Rolling Stone’s new solo cover story on RM is spreading fast online as the magazine rolls out its May 2026 BTS package. (rollingstone.com) The interview, published April 14, 2026, is one part of an eight-cover issue: one group cover plus seven solo covers released through April 20. Rolling Stone said it is the largest cover-story package in the magazine’s nearly 60-year history. (rollingstone.com) In the piece, RM links his solo work to the alternative and underground instincts he brought with him before BTS, and Rolling Stone frames Indigo and Right Place, Wrong Person as the clearest examples of that side of his music. (rollingstone.com) That focus lands after BTS restarted group activity in 2026 with Arirang, their first full-length studio album since Be in 2020. Rolling Stone published the group’s reunion cover story on April 13, one day before RM’s solo feature. (rollingstone.com) RM’s most recent solo album, Right Place, Wrong Person, arrived on May 24, 2024, as his second solo album. BigHit Music said at the time that the 11-track record showed facets of RM “distinct from albums released under BTS,” and Rolling Stone reported that he contributed lyrics to every song. (rollingstone.com) The album’s collaborators included Little Simz on “Domodachi” and Moses Sumney on “Around the World in a Day,” details Rolling Stone confirmed when it published the track list on May 17, 2024. The same report said the release followed RM’s 2022 album Indigo and his 2018 self-titled mixtape. (rollingstone.com) RM told Rolling Stone that solo releases gave him room to say things he could not always say inside a seven-member group, where he felt he had to play a role and think about younger fans watching. In the same interview, he said he could approach solo projects “without thinking of economic things.” (rollingstone.com) That tension between group scale and solo freedom has been part of BTS’ post-hiatus story since the members paused group activities, completed South Korea’s mandatory military service, and returned to making music together. Rolling Stone reported in August 2025 that RM said the reunited group was “working diligently” on a new album in Los Angeles after his discharge. (rollingstone.com) By mid-April 2026, the solo cover is functioning less like a side note than a companion piece to BTS’ comeback rollout: one story about the group’s return, and another about the member whose solo catalog most openly chased a different sound. (rollingstone.com)
