SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS has become the inaugural winner of a special category at the Japan Record Awards hosted by Japanese broadcaster TBS, the band’s agency said Thursday. The septet won the Special International Music Award at the 62nd Japan Record Awards that was broadcasted live late Wednesday, according to Big Hit [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean entertainment gurus — Bang Si-hyuk and Lee Mie-kyung, widely known as Miky Lee — have been named by U.S. magazine Variety as among the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry in 2020. Big Hit Entertainment said Tuesday that Bang, the 48-year-old CEO [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group ITZY plans to release its first English-language album next month, stepping up its entry into the global music market. The album, titled “Not Shy,” will be released at 2 p.m. on Jan. 22, JYP Entertainment, its management agency, said Monday. It will carry English versions [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment said Monday it will hold a free online concert on the first day of next year to give comfort to those fighting against the novel coronavirus pandemic across the world. The “SMTOWN Live” concert will be live streamed this Friday on social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ megahit song “Dynamite” has resurged to the top 10 on Billboard’s main singles chart this week. “Dynamite” ranked No. 9 on the Hot 100 chart to be refreshed Tuesday (U.S. local time), up 15 notches from No. 24 last week, Billboard said Monday. The rebound came [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2013, seven fledgling young men, who mostly grew up in towns outside of South Korea’s megacity Seoul, made their debut as a hip-hop group. They called themselves Bangtan Sonyeondan, or bulletproof boys. Unlike mainstream K-pop acts backed by polished producing and intricate marketing schemes, the septet made a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE ranked No. 72 on the Billboard main albums chart this week, renewing its highest record on the U.S. music publisher’s ranking. “Eyes Wide Open,” the group’s second full-length album, took 72nd place on the Billboard 200 chart refreshed Tuesday (U.S. time), seven weeks after its [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BTS has been named the Time magazine “entertainer of the year,” the U.S. weekly said Thursday. BTS “isn’t just the biggest K-pop act on the charts. They’ve become the biggest band in the world — full stop,” the influential magazine said in a Twitter post. “Between releasing multiple [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS, one of the world’s most popular pop groups, has become the first all-South Korean act to make it into the top 10 on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart. The group’s hit single “Dynamite” moved up a spot to rank No. 10 on the chart measuring radio airplay in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — After winning trophies at major music awards around the world, BTS picked up the top prizes at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), the biggest year-end music awards show in the K-pop industry, held late Sunday. The seven-piece group took home all four of the grand prizes — Artist [...]