SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment on Monday revealed its much-anticipated first boy group in six years since the debut of Day6 in September 2015. Xdinary Heroes landed in the highly competitive K-pop music scene, dropping its debut digital single titled “Happy Death Day.” During a media showcase for the upcoming [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ mega-hit single “Butter” has been selected as the Record of the Year by U.S. magazine Variety, the label behind the group said Sunday. BTS won the award for its second English-language single “Butter” during Variety’s Hitmakers event held in Los Angeles on Saturday (local time). “The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has taken the opening stage for the Los Angeles stop of this year’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, the largest year-end radio show in the United States, the group’s agency said Saturday. The septet performed its English-language hit singles “Butter” and “Dynamite,” with the latter sung [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will continue its latest live concert series in Seoul in March, its management agency said Friday, after the group successfully finished its sold-out live concerts in Los Angeles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “See you in Seoul, March 2022,” Big Hit Music announced in a brief posting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has topped nine of Billboard’s year-end charts for 2021, including the year’s top duo/group category. According to Billboard on Friday, BTS ranked No. 1 on the lists of Top Artists – Duo/Group, Hot 100 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard 200 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard Global Excl. U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean group BTS was the third most-streamed global artist on Spotify, one of the world’s biggest players of music streaming, this year, data from the service showed Thursday. According to the Spotify Wrapped 2021 data, BTS ranked third after Puerto Rican vocalist Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will be unable to attend the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) scheduled for next week as the members have to go through COVID-19 isolation upon arrival from the United States due to tightened quarantine rules. The government decided to place all overseas arrivals under a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kai, a member of popular K-pop boy group EXO, said Tuesday he wanted to show his new side “as sweet as a peach” in his new release as an individual artist. “If I had a weighty image as an EXO member and individual artist, I wanted to show a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean outbreak hit “Squid Game” won the best long-form TV series title at the Gotham Awards, becoming the country’s first winner at the U.S. awards ceremony for lower-budget indie movies and TV series. At the awards ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The government opened a metaverse-based online exhibition hall Tuesday to help overseas “hallyu” fans learn more about South Korea and its culture amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. “Korea World” will offer various articles and videos about Korean culture created by foreigners interested in the culture from around the world, [...]