SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group NewJeans has achieved a significant milestone by topping the Billboard 200 main albums chart for the first time since its debut a year ago. According to the latest chart revealed Wednesday (U.S. time), the quintet’s second EP titled “Get Up” debuted atop the list. This [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — V will become the last member of the globally popular K-pop septet BTS to debut as a solo artist, his agency said Wednesday. “V is stepping up work to make his first solo album,” BigHit Music said in a release. It said Min Hee-jin, CEO of ADOR, also a [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s megahit single “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has set a YouTube record for most views for a video by a K-pop group, the quartet’s agency said Monday. YG Entertainment said the music video surpassed 2.1 billion views around 5 p.m. the previous day, about five years and one month after it [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Pinkfong Co., a South Korean educational entertainment company, said Thursday its children’s songs have garnered more than a combined 1 billion streams on Spotify, the global music streaming giant. The number is the highest for a homegrown animation and character company. Pinkfong has released various children’s songs based [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member Jungkook has topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with his first solo single, “Seven,” becoming the second South Korean soloist to lead the list following his bandmate Jimin. Released July 14, “Seven,” a summery pop song featuring American female rapper Latto, has sold 153,000 song downloads [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group NewJeans on Friday rolled out its second EP, titled “Get Up,” the band’s agency said. The album hit music services worldwide at 1 p.m., a day before the band’s first anniversary, according to ADOR. The group’s last release was “OMG,” a single released in January. The [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Jungkook of K-pop supergroup BTS has expressed his anticipation for the group’s future reunion after all the members complete their military service, saying their synergy will be much more powerful then. “It’s good that we all have time to grow up individually through our solo projects that reflect our [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop giant BTS’ first official book, “Beyond the Story: 10-year Record of BTS,” has topped New York Times bestseller lists. According to the lists released by the U.S. newspaper Wednesday (U.S. time), the English version of the book shot to the top of this week’s bestseller lists for “hardcover [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean romantic drama series “King the Land” retook the No. 1 position as Netflix’s most-watched non-English TV show in the previous week, the streaming platform’s viewership chart showed Wednesday. The JTBC series, starring K-pop idols-turned-actors Lee Jun-ho and Lim Yoona, topped Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Exports of K-pop albums reached an all-time high in the first half of the year, with the United States surpassing China as the second-largest market for Korean music, data showed Tuesday. According to the data from the Korea Customs Service, exports of K-pop albums in the first six months [...]