SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ mega-hit single “Butter” has topped Billboard’s Digital Song sales chart again, giving the South Korean superband a record 46 weeks at No. 1. According to updated Billboard charts on Tuesday (U.S. time), “Butter,” released in May, ranked No. 1 on the weekly Digital Song Sales list, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sensational survival drama “Squid Game” has been nominated in three categories, including the best TV drama series, at the 79th annual Golden Globe Awards. According to the nominations announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) on Monday (U.S. time), the Netflix original was listed in the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop phenomenon BTS clinched four top awards at the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) on Saturday, sweeping the annual music award event for the third year in a row. The septet received album of the year, song of the year, artist of the year and worldwide icon of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — New K-pop girl group Ive has recorded the most first-week sales of any debut album by girl groups in South Korea ever, the group’s agency said Friday. The six-piece group’s first single album “Eleven,” released on Dec. 1, sold 152,229 copies in the first week of its release, Starship [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Monsta X released a new English-language album Friday for its international fans, the group’s management agency said. The full-length album titled “The Dreaming” hit various music services at midnight, Starship Entertainment said. It is the group’s second English album after “All Above Luv” released in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The title of South Korean survival drama “Squid Game” was the third-most popular search keyword on Google among local users this year, the global tech giant said Thursday. The drama on Netflix also ranked the ninth-most searched keyword on the global list, according to the annual search list released [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean television series “Squid Game” has won a special honor from the American Film Institute (AFI). The AFI announced the top 10 movies and TV shows of the year on Wednesday (U.S. time), and “Squid Game” was one of the three special award winners, along with “Belfast” and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has won three prizes at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards, the latest in a series of honors it took home from the United States this year. The South Korean group won the group of 2021 and both the song and the music video of 2021 for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe, home to famous K-pop groups such as BTS, Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together (TXT) and Enhypen, said Tuesday it will throw a joint concert of its artists to celebrate the end of the year, though BTS will be absent from the event. The concert, titled “2022 Weverse Con (New [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Tuesday opened a studio for immersive online concerts to support and nurture the digital capabilities of the local music industry amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic. The KOCCA Music Studio, completed last month through a remodeling of a music hall at Olympic Park in southeastern Seoul, will [...]