On 'HOME,' BOYNEXTDOOR Is Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud

BOYNEXTDOOR — SUNGHO, RIWOO, JAEHYUN, TAESAN, LEEHAN, and WOONHAK — have released their 1st studio album HOME, out now on all streaming platforms worldwide via KOZ Entertainment, a label under HYBE. The project arrives as their most personal body of work to date: a record that looks back on the years before anyone knew their names and arrives at the people, moments, and feelings that have come to define the word “home.”

The most significant thing about HOME is not the ambition behind it, though that ambition is evident throughout. It is the authorship. For the first time across a single project, all six members hold songwriting credits, a milestone that signals a creative evolution as meaningful as any chart placement. SUNGHO reflected on what that shift meant in practice: “Having a say in the writing made it feel like the songs were truly ours. It also made the process more honest, because we were sharing more of ourselves.” LEEHAN added another dimension to that honesty: “Being more involved gave me a stronger sense of ownership over the songs. At the same time, working as six made it feel less like individual ideas and more like something we created together.”

That collective authorship shapes the emotional architecture of the album. HOME spans a wide tonal range, from the pre-debut anxiety of “06070” to the family-facing warmth of “Forever You,” from the sensory pull of “DIVE” to the forward momentum of “ADIOS!” Tracks like “06070,” “Forever You,” “I Wonder,” and the CD-exclusive closer “I Wonder, Always” credit all six members jointly rather than splitting writing duties, reinforcing a sense of shared narrative that runs underneath the full tracklist. The album closes on that six-minute finale in its most unfiltered form: a deliberate choice to let the most personal material land last.

The lead single “VIRAL” sits at the center of everything HOME is trying to say. Built around the wish for a song to spread and reach someone from the past, it pairs that longing with a line that only a self-producing group could deliver with this level of conviction: “Gonna put my copyright on it.” TAESAN and WOONHAK were direct about what virality actually means to them at this point in their careers. “For us, going viral is less about numbers and more about connection. It matters more if people really relate to the song,” TAESAN said. WOONHAK put it plainly: “It’s less about numbers or trends. It’s more about putting something out that clearly feels like ours — something we can confidently say represents us, whether it goes viral or not.”

At the same time, the lead single’s music video extends the album’s broader visual language and sees the six members across stark settings of incinerators, smokestacks, and open fields, with fragmented memories rendered as smoke, ash, and emptiness. It serves as a deliberate contrast to the brighter, more playful energy of their earlier releases, presenting a more restrained and mature version of the group. The choreography follows the same logic, building through structured synchronization before peaking with a high-intensity finish in the second half.

What makes HOME feel earned is what the members themselves say it represents. RIWOO described it this way: “It feels more like a beginning than a destination. The album looks back on our journey so far, but it also made me realize that home isn’t necessarily a place. It can be the people and moments that stay with you wherever you go.” For JAEHYUN, the definition was even more immediate: “For me, home is the people around us. Before the members, I was just someone who liked music. After we came together, everything changed and that’s what became home.”

HOME is out now on all streaming platforms worldwide. BOYNEXTDOOR will follow the release with their first-ever world tour, “BOYNEXTDOOR TOUR ‘KNOCK ON Vol. 2,’” kicking off this July across 33 shows in 22 cities.