The security firms that evaluate Hybe stocks and market share have posted the same prediction FOUR times already. That Taehyung will release his album in Q3 and Jungkook in Q4.
Going by the activities of both and Jungkook's own admission, he said he's still working on his album. Not "following up" or "pre-release" to an already completed album but more on the lines of Dynamite-> BE promotion where Dynamite was a single released in August, and packaged in BE in November.
And going back to 2021, when he said he wanted to release three singles with three music videos,
I'm starting to believe that might be the case.
And with Taehyung, there was no need to film his music video FOUR MONTHS ahead of Q4 (October-December) and especially if his album is supposedly seasonal, there would have been no point making a sunny/tropical vibe music video in Spain for a winter album. I think because of how he's released before, we're all assuming he's going to make a winter-themed album?
Here's my theory:
*Jungkook single July 14
-two weeks break-
*Taehyung announces album/preorders in late July with a one-month pre-order period
-two weeks break-
*Taehyung releases a pre-release single
-two weeks break-
*Taehyung releases the album late Aug/early Sept.
-two weeks break-
*Either Jimin, Joon, or Yoongi releases another song mid-Sept.
-two weeks break-
*Jungkook releases another single in early Oct and announces album/preorders in early Oct with a one-month pre-order period
-two weeks break-
*Either Jimin, Joon, or Yoongi releases another song mid-Oct
-two weeks break-
*Jungkook releases late Oct/Early Nov title track and album
