SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK is poised to potentially make the biggest South Korean girl group album debut next month, with retail pre-orders for its inaugural studio record reaching 800,000 units worldwide, according to the band’s agency Friday. The number of pre-orders for the record titled “The Album” reached over 530,000 copies in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop super group BTS on Wednesday thanked its global fans for pushing its latest single “Dynamite” to the top of Billboard’s main singles chart, making the band the first South Korean artist to achieve the landmark feat. “I want to thank ARMY for making such a great achievement possible. [...]
CHANGWON, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor Park Bo-gum started his mandatory military duty Monday. Dressed in black, Park entered the Navy Education and Training Command in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, at 2 p.m. As his agency Blossom Entertainment has promised no farewell event at the training camp due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 26-year-old [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS picked up four awards at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards held in the United States on Sunday (U.S. time), while putting on its first television performance of its hit single “Dynamite” on the American TV network. The South Korean septet won in the categories of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BTS set yet another milestone in South Korea’s music history Saturday, with its new song “Dynamite” grabbing the No. 3 spot on Britain’s Official Top 100 Singles Chart in the first week of its release. No. 3 on the British music chart marks the highest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK said Friday it looks forward to one day standing on stage with Selena Gomez to perform “Ice Cream,” the band’s latest bubble-gum pop single featuring the American pop singer. BLACKPINK at 1 p.m. Friday released “Ice Cream,” the second prerelease single from its inaugural studio [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS is no stranger to breaking records, but this time the K-pop band may be on the verge of making history, as the chance of it becoming the first-ever South Korean music group to conquer the highly coveted Billboard Hot 100 chart appears more and more within range. Upon [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is gearing up to drop its second song of this summer, “Ice Cream,” having invited a special guest artist for the track and adopted a new visual style that represents a sharp departure from its previous hit “How You Like That.” The K-pop quartet plans [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop sensation BTS on Monday expressed gratitude toward a fan-led charity project to benefit the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States that was organized as a direct response to the hefty donation the band made earlier to the same cause. “We just want the world [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The three-letter acronym of global K-pop sensation BTS, which stands for either the Korean expression Bangtan Sonyeondan, meaning Bulletproof Boy Scouts, or Beyond The Scene, may as well stand for Break The Stats, with the band’s new digital single “Dynamite” blowing up international chart and YouTube records. At 1 [...]