SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group GFriend plans to release two digital singles in Japan next month, its management agency said Monday. The singles — “Labyrinth – Crossroads” and “Song of the Sirens – Apple” — will be released on Oct. 14 and 21, respectively, according to Source Music. “Labyrinth – Crossroads” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, the leader of K-pop super group BTS and a well-known art buff, has donated 100 million won (US$84,000) to the art foundation of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary (MMCA) on the occasion of his birthday last week, the foundation announced Monday. The donation will be used [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS said Thursday that their years of efforts to overcome linguistic and racial barriers have appealed to the musical mainstream in the United States and exploded with their latest hit “Dynamite.” The boy band debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart with the English-language song [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS topped the Billboard Artist 100 and Social 50 charts as its new single “Dynamite” scored its second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard said Wednesday (U.S. local time) that BTS ranked No. 1 for the second consecutive week on this week’s Artist [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix plans to next month release a documentary chronicling BLACKPINK’s four-year journey from talented trainees to K-pop superstars. The streaming giant and YG Entertainment, the band’s agency, said Wednesday “BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky,” the first Netflix film about a South Korean music band, will premiere Oct. 14. It [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS ranked first on the Billboard main singles chart for the second consecutive week Tuesday with its latest single “Dynamite.” “BTS’ ‘Dynamite’ is officially No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100 chart for a second consecutive week,” Billboard said on Twitter. The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK’s hit song “How You Like That” exceeded 500 million YouTube views in the shortest time in K-pop history, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The music video surpassed the 500 million mark around 3:50 a.m. Tuesday, 73 days after its release [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Along with the global explosion of K-pop, the need among global fans to better understand what K-pop artists are singing, saying and writing in Korean has grown significantly. The online edition of American business magazine Forbes highlighted in a recent article that many international fans of K-pop nowadays are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As BTS conquered the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with “Dynamite,” the achievement has also rekindled a debate on whether global K-pop stars should be offered preferential treatment in terms of military duties so as to avoid a hiatus during the height of their careers. On Tuesday, BTS [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK is poised to potentially make the biggest South Korean girl group album debut next month, with retail pre-orders for its inaugural studio record reaching 800,000 units worldwide, according to the band’s agency Friday. The number of pre-orders for the record titled “The Album” reached over 530,000 copies in [...]