SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Stray Kids debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s main albums chart with their latest EP “Oddinary,” the U.S. music magazine said Tuesday, becoming the third K-pop act ever to top the chart. The seven-track album began atop the Billboard 200 chart dated April 2 with [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — NCT Dream, a subunit of SM Entertainment’s K-pop supergroup NCT, said Monday it sought to show how much it has grown musically over the past year through its second full-length album “Glitch Mode.” The album comes a year after the unit’s first full-length album “Hot Sauce,” which dropped in [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop juggernaut BIGBANG will drop “Still Life,” its first single in four years, next month, the group’s management agency said Thursday. YG Entertainment also unveiled a teaser poster featuring white, pink, yellow and red daisies in full bloom for the highly anticipated song set to be out on April [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Brave Girls said Wednesday its latest album, “Thank You,” is an ode to its devoted fans, who made it possible for the K-pop group to achieve viral success with “Rollin’” last year after more than 10 years of obscurity. “We received so much love last year but had no [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BTS has taken home two prizes from the iHeartRadio Music Awards, one of the American music industry’s award shows. The septet won best music video for its 2021 megahit single “Butter” and best fan army for its international fandom ARMY during the awards ceremony held [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Red Velvet, known as “summer queen” in the music scene for its refreshing summery hit songs like “Red Flavor,” said Monday it would like to be the queen of all seasons as it dropped the first installment of this year’s new album series. “The ReVe Festival 2022 — Feel [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop superband BTS’ “On” has passed 300 million views on YouTube, its management agency said Saturday. The video for the main track of its fourth full-length album “Map of the Soul:7″ released in February 2020 reached the milestone at around 4 p.m. Friday, Big Hit [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Stray Kids, a rising new-generation K-pop group known for its unique music style, returned with a new EP album Friday amid high attention from music fans at home and abroad. The band’s second EP, “Oddinary,” is the latest release from the group after “Noeasy,” its second full-length album that [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO will celebrate the 10th anniversary since its debut with an in-person fan meet in Seoul next month, the group’s agency said Thursday. The “2022 Debut Anniversary Fan Event: EXO” will take place at Jamsil Gymnasium in southern Seoul at 7 p.m. on April 9, SM [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a major annual festival of K-pop and Korean culture, will return to South Korea, Japan and the United States in person this year after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said Thursday. CJ ENM, a leading entertainment and media company in South Korea, said the [...]