USA TODAY chats with Jin of the iconic K-pop group BTS about his second solo album "Echo," songwriting and his upcoming US tour.

Echo follows the November release of JIN’s debut solo EP Happy, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200. The project featured single “Running Wild,” which marked JIN’s second Billboard Hot 100 entry separate from his mega-famous boy band, following 2022’s “The Astronaut”; the two tracks reached Nos. 53 and 51 on the chart, respectively.

BTS Jin's second solo EP "Echo" landed No. 1 on the Worldwide iTunes Album and the European iTunes Album chart upon its release on Friday. The EP also landed on top of 63 countries and regions on iTunes,