SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has added another feat to its copious list of accomplishments: replacing one of the group’s own songs at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and scoring back-to-back debuts atop the list. The septet’s third English number, “Permission to Dance,” debuted at No. 1 on [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — All 13 members of K-pop boy band Seventeen have agreed to renew contracts with their agency before expiry, the group’s agency said Monday. “While the existing contract is yet to expire, all 13 members of Seventeen and the company held in-depth discussions on the group’s future plans and reached [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the 2019 BTS hit “Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)” earned more than 1.3 billion views on YouTube on Sunday, the group’s agency said, in yet another milestone for the K-pop dynamo. “Boy With Luv,” the main track for the seven-piece act’s sixth EP “Map of [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The massive popularity of Korean dramas in Japan has resulted in a series of offline exhibitions despite the ongoing pandemic. Studio Dragon, a South Korean drama studio, began hosting an exhibition on Korean dramas in Tokyo on July 10, attracting an endless stream of local visitors. The exhibition, held [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS became the top-selling artist in total CD album sales in the United States in the first half of this year, according to Billboard on Tuesday (U.S. time). The K-pop juggernaut sold 573,000 copies of its CD albums from Jan. 1 to July 1, the most by a single [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS and dozens of top international artists will join Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour broadcast show intended to help fight COVID-19, climate change and extreme poverty in September, the organizer said. Global Citizen, an international advocacy group based in New York, announced details of the global philanthropic [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop queen BLACKPINK will be the next act to go on Hybe’s growing fan community platform Weverse, its agency said Wednesday. The four-piece act, which already has a massive fan base on YouTube, will join the virtual platform starting Aug. 2, according to YG Entertainment. The move follows a [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie Enhypen has topped a key daily and a weekly music chart in Japan with its debut Japanese single, music tracker Oricon said Tuesday. “Border: Hakanai” ranked No. 1 on Oricon’s latest weekly singles chart, selling over 200,000 copies from July 5 to Sunday, according to Oricon News. [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS’ summery, up-tempo number “Butter” remained atop Billboard’s main singles chart for the seventh consecutive week in the group’s best chart record since its debut. “”Butter” is officially No. 1 on this week’s #Hot100 chart for a seventh week,” Billboard said on its Twitter account on Monday [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Superband BTS on Friday unveiled its much-awaited new song “Permission to Dance,” the act’s second collaboration with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. The pop-disco track, co-written with Sheeran as well as high-profile producers, like Steve Mac, Johnny McDaid and Jenna Andrews, turned out to be another cheerful song aimed at [...]