SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for “Dynamite,” the historic BTS song that topped the Billboard’s main singles chart last year, has earned 800 million YouTube views, the band’s agency said Sunday. YouTube views for “Dynamite” hit 800 million views at 12:26 p.m. on Sunday, becoming the septet’s sixth music video to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop soloist HyunA is set to drop a new EP next week, returning from a yearlong hiatus related to her health condition. The singer, known for her bold performances, will be releasing the album “I’m Not Cool” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, according to P Nation, an agency-label founded [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie K-pop act TREASURE is set to release its first full album in Japan in March, officially debuting in the Asian country, its agency said Thursday. “The First Step: TREASURE Effect,” set to drop on March 31, is a Japanese version of the band’s debut full album and carries [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — On a chilly January afternoon, four young men are at a white and wooden kitchen studio set up at a traditional Korean house, cooking up a street-meets-royal Korean dish. They are Woobin, Hyeongjun, Seongmin and Allen — members of nine-piece rookie boy band Cravity — who are making gungjung [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Baekhyun, the lead singer of K-pop boy group EXO, will release his first solo album in Japan this week, his agency said Tuesday. His first Japanese EP, titled “BAEKHYUN,” is set to hit Japan on Wednesday, according to SM Entertainment. It is his first time to release a Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Psy, the singer-producer behind the 2012 viral sensation “Gangnam Style,” has celebrated his 20-year music career with a special social media post, his agency said Monday. “Psy’s 20th debut anniversary … Congrats, @psy_oppa,” P Nation, the singer-producer’s agency — which he founded in 2018 — wrote on its Twitter [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A teenage boy who used to shuttle from his hometown of Gwangju to Seoul to not miss school while training to become a K-pop idol has become the face of passion nearly 20 years later. That boy, who is now 34, is U-know Yunho, the energetic leader of second-generation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop soloist IU is set to release the new single “Celebrity” later this month ahead of releasing her long-awaited fifth studio album, her agency said Friday. The song, which Edam Entertainment described as an “upbeat pop sound track that IU will be experimenting with for the first time,” will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Jennie, the singer-rapper of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has earned over 600 million views on YouTube with her 2018 hit song “Solo,” her agency said Friday. The music video for her first solo single hit the milestone at around 5:19 a.m., some 26 months after its release in November [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Superstar BTS has swept the 2021 Gaon Chart Music Awards with six trophies for its successful albums and songs released last year. At the annual awards ceremony held virtually on Wednesday due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the K-pop act won three trophies in the “Artist of the Year [...]