SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BLACKPINK’s first full-length album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard main album chart this week, setting a new record in the history of South Korean girl groups. “At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, BLACKPINK’s debut full-length ‘The Album’ enters with 110,000 equivalent album units earned,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group TWICE’s upcoming full-length album includes collaborations with popular musicians, such as Dua Lipa and Heize, its agency said Sunday. The nine-member group’s second full-length album “Eyes Wide Open” features 13 songs, including “Behind the Mask” that was co-composed by British pop diva Dua Lipa. The lyrics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus has proven to be a longer-than-expected obstacle that has pushed the global music industry out of its comfort zone and into uncharted land where the heat and energy of live gigs no longer exist. But it couldn’t stop BTS and its dedicated fan base ARMY from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s latest music video “Lovesick Girls” will be edited and replaced, its agency said Wednesday, following a controversy over scenes that nurse groups criticized for sexualizing the profession. “We have decided to delete all scenes with the nurse uniform in BLACKPINK’s ‘Lovesick Girls’ music video and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop project boy band SuperM has landed at No. 2 on the Billboard’s main albums chart with its first full-length album “Super One.” The U.S.-based publisher reported Sunday (local time) that the SuperM album reached second place on the Billboard 200, which ranks the most popular albums of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop star BTS participated in a remix project for the hit song “Savage Love” by U.S. pop singer Jason Deluro and New Zealand producer Jawsh 685, according to the band’s agency Sunday. BTS lent its singing and rapping to “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) (BTS Remix),” the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS performed its hit song “Mikrokosmos” at a royal palace in Seoul as part of the “BTS Week” special on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” aired Friday (Korea time). In a prerecorded nighttime live performance, the seven-member band sang the song from its 2019 album, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BLACKPINK said Friday it wanted to show its growth as an artist and send out a message of hope and positive energy with its first-ever full-length album. Earlier in the day, the quartet unveiled the album “The Album,” which includes main track “Lovesick Girls” as well as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS teased its upcoming new album “BE” on Thursday (Korean time), appearing on the “BTS Week” special on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The show’s weeklong series running for five days through Friday is designed to showcase different music performances of the seven-member band each [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Marking the fifth anniversary of its debut this month, K-pop girl band TWICE will drop its second full-length album in October, its management agency said Thursday. According to JYP Entertainment, the band will officially release the new album on Oct. 26 and return to the K-pop scene for promotional [...]