SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language crime thriller “Narco-Saints” has placed second on the streamer’s latest weekly viewership chart for non-English TV shows. The six-part series, released on Sept. 9, marked 27.4 million hours of viewing for the week of Sept. 19-25 to finish No. 2 on the official top 10 list for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Mamamoo will return as a full group with its 12th EP titled “MIC On” next month, its management agency said Tuesday. The new EP will hit various music services at 6 p.m. on Oct. 11, RBW Entertainment said. It will be the first release from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop boy group EXO’s Xiumin said Monday he is very much eager to resume group activities, as he was to drop his first album as a solo artist 10 years after his debut as an EXO member. EXO was one of the most popular boy groups back in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK rewrote the history of K-pop girl groups by becoming the first among them to claim No. 1 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with its second studio album, “Born Pink,” on Monday. This proved that the band has become beloved artists of global music fans, six years [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK became the first K-pop girl group to claim the No. 1 spot on U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, Billboard has said. In a preview of this week’s charts, Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) that the band’s second full-length album, “Born Pink,” released Sept. 16, arrived atop the latest [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix confirmed Saturday the acclaimed South Korean horror thriller “Hellbound” will return for a second season. The sequel to the 2021 drama was revealed Saturday at Tudum, the global fan event of the streaming service. “Fans can look forward to Season 2 exploring the themes of mortality, sin, and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK has topped the album section of Britain’s Official Chart with its latest work, “Born Pink,” becoming the first K-pop girl group to claim the belt on the most celebrated music chart in the country, its agency said Saturday. The group’s second full-length album, released on Sept. 16, beat [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — “Born Pink,” the second studio album from BLACKPINK, has broken the record for the biggest first week sales by a K-pop girl group in history, its agency said Friday. The album set the record by selling more than 1.54 million copies in the first week of its release last [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Born Pink,” BLACKPINK’s second full-length album, has sold more than 2 million copies for the first time as a K-pop girl group album, the group’s agency said Thursday. The album had sold a total of 2,141,281 copies in only two days after its release last Friday, YG Entertainment said, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has topped world’s largest music streaming service Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart with its latest single, “Shut Down,” for two days in a row, the group’s agency said Monday. The main track off the group’s second full-length album, “Born Pink,” bagged its second consecutive No. [...]