BOYNEXTDOOR Announces First Full Album 'HOME' and World Tour

BOYNEXTDOOR is ready to come home — and this time, they mean that literally. The six-member group from KOZ Entertainment has announced that their first full-length studio album, titled simply HOME, will be released on June 8, 2026 at 6 p.m. KST. The announcement arrived alongside a pre-release single and performance video that has already set social media moving, and it comes bundled with news of the group's first-ever world tour — a 24-city run that will take them from Seoul to North America for the first time.

'똑똑똑' and What It Signals

Before HOME arrives, BOYNEXTDOOR released "똑똑똑" — transliterated as "Dokdokdok," meaning roughly "knock knock knock" — as the album's lead pre-release single on May 11. The performance video uploaded to the HYBE LABELS YouTube channel the following day showed a group that has made a deliberate visual and sonic shift: the look is different, the energy more confrontational, and the choreography more physically demanding than the softer, more approachable aesthetic the group initially built their identity around.

The title's hook — a doorbell knock sound that became instantly iconic — spread rapidly across short-form platforms. Within days, over 18,000 fan-created videos had appeared online using the sound, a figure that reflects how precisely engineered the single's viral architecture is. In South Korea, China, and Japan, the track charted favorably in the first week, signaling that the group's momentum in Northeast Asian markets is holding.

For long-time fans, the pre-release is a statement of intent. BOYNEXTDOOR debuted in 2023 with a gentler, more conversational identity — the "boy next door" aesthetic that their name captures. HOME appears to be the moment they step out from that framing and assert something more complex. The album is described as containing autobiographical material from the members' own experiences, and if "똑똑똑" is representative of that direction, the full album may be the most personal thing the group has released.

The 'HOME' Album: What We Know

Releasing on June 8, HOME marks BOYNEXTDOOR's first full-length release — a milestone in any K-pop group's career, traditionally representing a moment when a group is mature enough and commercially established enough to sustain a complete album format rather than the mini-album or EP cycles that define earlier career stages. The group, comprising members Sungho, Riwoo, Myung Jaehyeon, Taesan, Leehan, and Unhak, has been releasing music since their debut and has built a dedicated following particularly in Korea and Japan.

The album's title and the autobiographical framing suggest that HOME will function as something more than a commercial release — that it is intended as a narrative document of where the group has been and where they see themselves going. K-pop debut albums carry that kind of weight when done well, and the scale of the promotional rollout surrounding HOME indicates that KOZ Entertainment and HYBE are treating it with corresponding seriousness.

The promotional schedule released alongside the album announcement included a detailed rollout — performance video, music show appearances beginning the week of May 12, and additional content drops — all of which is standard practice for a major comeback, but executed with the kind of attention to detail that signals a release the label expects to perform at a high level.

A First World Tour — 24 Cities, Starting in Seoul

The biggest news accompanying the album cycle may be the tour. BOYNEXTDOOR announced BOYNEXTDOOR TOUR 'KNOCK ON Vol.2' on May 13, confirming a 24-city world tour that will begin in Seoul and extend to North America for the first time in the group's history. The Seoul dates — July 17, 18, and 19 — will be held at the KSPO DOME in Seoul's Songpa district, a major indoor venue that typically holds thousands of spectators per event. Three consecutive nights there represents a meaningful scale for a group three years into their career.

From Seoul, the tour moves to Busan on August 1 and 2 at the Sajik Indoor Gymnasium, before continuing to a 10-city North American run. The total itinerary across 24 confirmed cities makes this the group's most ambitious live undertaking to date, and the inclusion of North America marks the group's formal commitment to establishing a presence in a market that has increasingly become a priority for HYBE's roster.

The tour's name — 'KNOCK ON Vol.2' — connects directly to the pre-release single's imagery and continues a naming convention that the group established earlier in their career, treating their concert series as a sequential narrative rather than a collection of standalone events.

What the Fans Have Built

The shortform activity surrounding "똑똑똑" offers a snapshot of the group's fandom at its most engaged. More than 18,000 videos using the track's audio were created within days of release — content that spans fan edits, choreography covers, reaction videos, and creative interpretations of the song's doorbell hook concept. For a group whose name literally invokes the idea of a familiar presence showing up at your door, the shortform trend has a poetic quality: the song is spreading precisely by knocking on the doors of people who have not yet encountered BOYNEXTDOOR directly.

The response in Japan has also been notable. The group has developed a strong Japanese following throughout their career, and the announcement of the world tour — which has been confirmed to include North American dates, with a full international schedule expected to be announced over the coming weeks — has already generated significant reaction within that market. The Busan dates add a domestic leg that extends the Korean portion of the tour and allows fans who cannot travel to Seoul to attend a local show.

Three Years and a World Tour Later

BOYNEXTDOOR debuted in 2023 at a moment when the K-pop landscape was beginning to fill with a new wave of HYBE-affiliated acts, and they have spent the intervening years establishing their identity within a crowded field. Their catalog to date has demonstrated range — the softness of their early releases alongside the harder edge emerging in their more recent material — and their live reputation has grown steadily.

Arriving at the first full album moment with a world tour announcement attached is a signal that the group and their label believe the audience is large enough and stable enough to support that level of commitment. The shortform challenge numbers, the chart performance across three Asian markets, and the scale of the 'KNOCK ON Vol.2' tour together paint a picture of a group that has earned the size of the next step it is taking.

HOME arrives on June 8. The knock on the door has already been answered.