Overview

• Studio owner Paddy Dunning told The Irish Sun that BTS recorded one of Michael Jackson’s unreleased 2006 tracks during sessions held last year at Grouse Lodge in Ireland.
• On August 5, BigHit Music publicly stated that BTS had neither visited the Irish studio nor participated in any recording sessions for the tribute album.
• Hybe, BTS’s parent company, issued its own statement confirming the group was not involved and labeling the reports as false.
• Michael Jackson’s estate has approved a project based on his 2006 Ireland sessions that will feature around ten unreleased tracks from his collaborators alongside a documentary.
• Initial media coverage generated enthusiastic responses from BTS’s ARMY and mixed reactions from some Michael Jackson fans, but the official denials have redirected attention to the broader estate-backed project, which will proceed without BTS.