SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a self-report personality test, will be able to easily catch what the name of K-pop boy group NCT Dream’s upcoming third full-length album, “ISTJ,” means. “ISTJ” refers to one of the 16 personality types in the test that is greatly popular among [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, the world’s biggest girl group, has garnered over 90 million subscribers on YouTube, cementing its position as the most-followed musical act on the global video sharing service. The quartet hit the milestone at 5:36 a.m. Monday, about seven years and a month after its YouTube channel was created, [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop juggernaut BTS will release a CD edition of his debut solo album “Jack in the Box” released a year ago, the band’s agency said Monday. BigHit Music said the album’s “HOPE Edition” will be put out on Aug. 18. The edition will have three live tracks [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member Jungkook’s first solo single, “Seven,” has landed atop streaming giant Spotify’s daily top song global chart, his agency said Sunday. The digital single, unveiled Friday, topped the chart after being streamed nearly 16 million times. The agency, BigHit Music, said the feat made Jungkook the first Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member Jungkook’s first solo single, “Seven,” topped iTunes Top Song charts of 106 countries around the world Saturday, one day after its release, its agency, BigHit Music, said. Jungkook unveiled the digital single Friday, becoming the sixth member of the septet to debut as a soloist, after J-Hope, [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group NewJeans’ new song, “Super Shy,” has entered the British Official Singles Chart Top 100 one week after its release. According to the latest data released Friday (British time), the song debuted at 59th on the prestigious chart. “Super Shy” was released July 7 and will be [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Jungkook of K-pop supergroup BTS droped his first official solo song on Friday. The digital single, titled “Seven,” was arrived at 1 p.m. in local time, according to the band’s agency, BigHit Music. The release will make him the sixth member of the septet to debut as a soloist, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Super Junior’s members Eunhyuk, Donghae and Kyuhyun will leave SM Entertainment, their agency for over 10 years, the company said Friday. SM Entertainment said the three members will pursue individual activities, as they have decided not to renew their contracts with the agency. This marks the [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language series “Celebrity” was the most-watched non-English TV show on the streamer in the previous week, its viewership chart showed Wednesday. Released on June 30, the 12-part show about the extravagant lives of social media influencers topped Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the week of July 3-9 [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — YG Entertainment’s new girl group Babymonster will make its debut in September, the K-pop label said Tuesday. According to the agency, the group is now working on the choreography and music video for its debut song, which will be an intense hip-hop genre piece. It also said a lot [...]