About Stay Gold

“Stay Gold” has been selected as the theme song for a Japanese television drama Spiral Labyrinth – DNA Science Investigation (Rasen no Meikyu in Japanese). The tv drama is based on a manga series with the same name. The story centers on a DNA expert who is recruited to secretly work on a murder case in Tokyo.

The show was planned to be released on April 2020, but due to the situation with the COVID-19 it was postponed, as well as a song release.

“Stay Gold” achieved #1 in 61 countries on iTunes (in less than 4 hours after release) and becomes BTS’s Japanese song with the most iTunes #1s, surpassing “Lights.”

The soothing, uplifting track opens with youngest member Jungkook softly cooing, “In a world where you feel cold, you gotta stay gold, baby” before the song kicks into the blend of bouncy hip-hop beats on the verses and power-pop production on the choruses. Like some of the tracks from BTS’ past discography, the song is a comforting pop blanket with its scaling, surging hook encouraging listeners to “stay gold,” delivering empowering words at a time when many need it.