SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS will hold a concert in Busan in October to support the southern port city’s bid to host the World Expo in 2030, its agency said Thursday. Big Hit Music said its parent company Hybe, Busan city and the bid committee discussed measures to promote Busan’s efforts [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS has ranked high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for the third consecutive week with its anthology album “Proof.” The album came in 13th, down nine notches from the previous week’s fourth, on this week’s Billboard 200 chart, released Wednesday (U.S. time). “Proof” is a [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising South Korean girl group aespa has called for future generations to pay attention to and take action for the sustainable development goals during a speech in a U.N. forum. The band addressed the 2022 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held at the U.N. headquarters in New York [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group WINNER has sidestepped setbacks caused by two members’ mandatory military duties with brisk individual activities and is now ready to bring their uplifting vibes back to the music scene. The quartet made a full-group comeback for the first time in more than two years Tuesday with [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, a top K-pop girl group, will make a long-awaited comeback in August, its management agency said Wednesday. “BLACKPINK is now at the final stage of recording its new album. They will embark on the filming of a music video within this month and release new songs in August,” [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE’s Nayeon ranked seventh on the Billboard’s main albums chart with her solo debut EP, “Im Nayeon,” the U.S. chart operator has said in an article. She became the Billboard 200′s highest-charting K-pop solo artist by earning 57,000 equivalent album units in the United States in [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s megahit single “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has set a YouTube record for most views for a video by a K-pop group, the quartet’s agency said Sunday. YG Entertainment said the music video surpassed 1.9 billion views just past 4 a.m. Sunday. The clip was first released on July 15, 2018. [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, topped the iTunes music charts in 84 countries with his first official solo single “More” on Saturday. Released on Friday, J-Hope’s new EP ranked No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in the United States, Canada, Spain, France and other [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean girl group aespa will attend the U.N. High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development next week, its agency said Friday. The band will attend the opening session of the forum, to be held at the U.N. headquarters in New York at 9 a.m. on Tuesday (U.S. time), SM [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, released his highly anticipated first official solo single “More” on Friday. The song came out in a digital format through the Weverse Album app at 1 p.m., to be the first formal solo track from the band. It followed the [...]