SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS topped Amazon’s album pre-order list, its agency said Thursday. Big Hit Entertainment said “Love Yourself: Tear,” the K-pop sensation’s upcoming full-length album, shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s CDs & Vinyl Best Sellers list in the U.S., a day after the pre-order became available on [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Singer-actor Lee Seung-gi will host the latest season of Mnet’s “Produce” music program, the network announced Wednesday. Lee will serve as emcee of ”Produce 48,” the third season of the popular “Produce 101″ series, set to begin airing in June, according to Mnet. The show’s past two seasons have lead to the creation of I.O.I and Wanna One, two of the most successful K-pop rookie groups in recent [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE has sold over 2.2 million albums in South Korea since its debut, data showed on Tuesday. The combined number of records sold by the nine-member act stood at 2,222,981 as of Sunday, JYP Entertainment said, citing data from Gaon Chart, South Korea’s main music sales tracker. [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS will make a comeback next month by releasing its third full-length album, its agency said Tuesday. “Love Yourself: Tear,” the follow-up to the band’s smash hit “Love Yourself: Her” from last year, will drop on May 18, according to Big Hit Entertainment. The group released a [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Japanese leg of this year’s KCON, an annual global Korean pop music and culture convention, drew a crowd of some 68,000 during its three-day run, organizers said Monday. The three-day event held at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo, from Friday to Sunday was attended by a combined audience of 68,000, [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE plans to release a new Japanese single next month, according to its agency Monday. The group’s third Japanese single, “Wake Me Up,” will be released on May 16 in the neighboring country, JYP Entertainment said. TWICE debuted in Japan in June 2017 with the compilation album [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean singer-actress Suzy will visit three Asian countries starting next month to meet regional fans in person, her agency announced Friday. Suzy will travel to Taipei on May 12 and later head to Hong Kong and Bangkok on May 26 and June 24, respectively, according to JYP Entertainment. [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – “Face Yourself,” the latest Japanese release from boy band BTS, has become the fastest-selling K-pop album in Japan to date, according to the country’s main music sales tracker on Thursday. “Face Yourself,” the septet’s third Japanese studio album, released on April 2, sold 282,000 copies in its first week, reaching a new high for a South Korean artist in terms of [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Media outlets of the United Arab Emirates have offered extensive coverage of a recent K-pop gala concert thrown by SM Entertainment, South Korea’s largest entertainment agency, last week in Dubai. The concert, “SM Town Live World Tour VI in Dubai,” was held at the Autism Rocks Arena in Dubai [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE on Tuesday achieved another home run with its latest song, “What is Love?” peaking at No. 1 on five major music streaming charts. The lead track for the band’s fifth EP album, which was released at 6 p.m. Monday, stood at No. 1 on five [...]