SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the agency-label behind K-pop girl groups like ITZY, TWICE and Wonder Girls, is poised to launch a new all-female act next year. The company, which recently posted a new teaser image and video for the upcoming launch, said the new act is set to debut in February [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Singers Kim Hee-chul and Momo have separated, roughly 1 1/2 years after acknowledging their romantic relationship, their agencies confirmed Thursday. SJ Label, which manages Super Junior, and JYP Entertainment, which represents TWICE, confirmed the couple has broken up without providing further details. The two celebrities, who are respective members [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS and Tomorrow X Together (TXT) — both managed by K-pop powerhouse Big Hit Music — have simultaneously landed on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart with their all-English tracks. BTS ranked No. 11 with “Butter” on the latest version of the radio chart, which reflects weekly data from around 160 [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Supergroup BTS rewrote its chart record on Wednesday as its upbeat summer number “Butter” retained the top spot on Billboard’s main singles chart for the sixth consecutive week. “”Butter” is officially No. 1 on this week’s #Hot100 chart for a sixth consecutive week,” Billboard said Tuesday (U.S. time) on [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – JYP Entertainment, the K-pop agency-label that represents acts like TWICE, Itzy and Stray Kids, said Tuesday it has opened a pop-up store in Tokyo for fans there. The venue set up in the Ginza neighborhood of the Japanese capital opened Saturday and is set to run until Aug. 31, [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Global superstar BTS has set another record on YouTube, with its music video for the 2017 song “DNA” earning 1.3 billion views on YouTube, the band’s agency said Saturday. YouTube views for “DNA,” released in September 2017, topped 1.3 billion around midnight Friday, becoming the seven-piece act’s first music [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop juggernaut BTS will release a new song, “Permission to Dance,” co-written by British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, next week, its agency said Friday. The tracklist of the upcoming physical CD version of “Butter,” unveiled on the septet’s official social media account, includes two songs — “Butter,” a summer number [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Seventeen has landed on Billboard’s main albums chart this week with its new EP, making its first appearance on the prominent U.S. music chart in its seven-year career. “Your Choice” came in at No. 15 on this week’s Billboard 200, the U.S. music publisher said Monday [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Superband BTS retained the top spot on Billboard’s main singles chart for the fifth straight week with its upbeat summer number “Butter,” once again outpacing the group’s chart record. “”Butter” holds at No. 1 with 12.4 million U.S. streams and 128,400 downloads sold (up 15 percent) in the week [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — All-female groups, often dubbed as “girl groups,” are ruling domestic music charts in South Korea, taking the lead in the summer dance-pop race. With the exception of superband BTS and American pop star Justin Bieber, who have long led the charts with “Butter” and “Peaches,” girl groups are reigning [...]