SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Three new songs from K-pop rookie NewJeans exploded onto the latest monthly chart of Melon, South Korea’s largest music streaming service. The girl group swept the top three spots, with “Ditto” debuting at No. 1, followed by “OMG” and “Hype Boy,” according to the chart released Wednesday. The first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will be honored at this year’s Billboard Women in Music Awards. The group will receive the Breakthrough Artist award at the annual ceremony slated for March 1 in Los Angeles, according to Billboard’s website. It will be the first K-pop artist to be recognized at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Le Sserafim’s first Japanese-language single “Fearless” ranked No. 1 on Oricon’s weekly singles chart, its agency, Source Music, said Tuesday. It is the first time in five years and three months that a foreign female artist has topped Japan’s main music chart with its debut album. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127 has completed its second world tour, “Neo City:The Link,” which has drawn some 700,000 spectators in 17 major cities, its management agency SM Entertainment said Monday. Beginning in Seoul in December 2021, the nine-member group performed in 28 rounds of concerts in several countries, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together’s latest album sold more than 1.8 million copies on the first day of its release, the group’s agency said Saturday. “The Name Chapter: Temptation,” the quintet’s fifth EP, sold 1,868,919 copies Friday, BigHit Music said, quoting data from local album sales tracker Hanteo [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has earned six new Guinness World Records titles with its second studio album “Born Pink” and member Lisa’s flourishing solo career, its agency YG Entertainment said Friday. BLACKPINK has been certified as the first K-pop girl group to rank at No. 1 on the U.K. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together has released several concept albums in which all songs are connected to form a story. The band is dropping another album of the kind Friday, containing five tracks depicting the growing pains experienced by young adults. The group’s fifth EP, “The Name Chapter: [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean director Yeon Sang-ho’s sci-fi thriller “Jung_E” was the most watched non-English film on Netflix in the first week of its release, data showed Wednesday. “Jung_E” was watched for 19.3 million hours in the first three days after its release on Friday, topping the non-English film chart in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Red Velvet has recorded its first million seller with its latest album, “The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday,” the band’s agency said Wednesday. Released Nov. 28, the new EP had sold 1,029,463 copies as of Friday, SM Entertainment said. It marks the first time that any [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BIGBANG’s Taeyang and BTS’ Jimin have made their debut as solo artists on the U.S. Billboard’s main singles chart for their collaboration single “Vibe.” The digital single landed at 76th on the Hot 100 for this week by scoring 4.2 million streams and 20,000 downloads in [...]