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

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,

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.