SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), the K-pop industry’s biggest annual year-end music awards show, will be held with an audience in South Korea next month, its organizer said Tuesday. Mnet, a cable channel that hosts the annual event, said the 2021 MAMA will take place in person at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop superstar BTS will appear on American broadcaster CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” next week, making its first studio appearance on the U.S. show in nearly two years, its management agency here said Tuesday. The seven-piece act will visit the studio of the famous U.S. talk [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BTS has clinched four trophies at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA), the most at the annual ceremony. In the ceremony held in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday (local time), the seven-member act took home Best Pop, Best Group, Best K-pop and Biggest Fans. BTS is one [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 3,000 fans gathered for an in-person K-pop concert on Sunday as the government hosted the first large indoor music event in nearly two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The one-day World K-pop Concert: B.I.T. 4U Concert took place at the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group BLACKPINK saw the music video for its 2020 hit “How You Like That” break 1 billion views on YouTube in its latest feat on the video platform. The group passed the 1 billion mark Friday morning, 505 days after it was released on June 26 last [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will release its third studio album, titled “Formula of Love: O+T=<3,” on Friday, its management agency said. Presales of the album reached 700,000 units, about 200,000 more than its previous release and last EP “Taste of Love,” according to JYP Entertainment. The group said the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean breakout hit “Squid Game” has emerged as a big contender in the U.S. year-end awards season, possibly to become the first Korean-made TV series winning a trophy at prestigious awards ceremonies. Starting in late fall, the highly competitive race for great TV shows and movies of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean sensation “Squid Game” has reclaimed the No. 1 position on Netflix’s most popular TV show rankings to become the streamer’s top-ranking original series for the most days ever. According to streaming analytics firm FlixPatrol on Wednesday (U.S. time), the Korean-language survival drama regained the No. 1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising K-pop rookie band Enhypen became a “million-seller” through its first full-length album, the group’s management agency said Thursday. “Dimension: Dilemma” has sold 1,139,099 copies since its release on Oct. 12, Belift Lab said, citing data from music market tracker Gaon Chart. The album sold more than 810,000 copies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean phenomenon “Squid Game” has outnumbered the longtime TV powerhouse “Game of Thrones” in terms of combined YouTube views of its derivative video content, a U.S. media outlet has reported. A total of 129,000 videos of the survival drama, including official trailers, fan-made reaction clips and video [...]