SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group NewJeans on Friday released “New Jeans,” a song to be included in its forthcoming second EP. The song has a unique composition alternating between UK garage rhythm and Jersey club rhythm with smart lyrics and utilizes the team’s name. “Super Shy,” another prerelease song unveiled together [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy group Seventeen’s 10th EP, “FML,” has sold 6.2 million copies, making it the biggest-selling K-pop album of all time, the group’s agency said Wednesday. This also marks the first time that a K-pop album has surpassed 6 million copies in sales. Released April 24,”FML” set a new record [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Jungkook of K-pop supergroup BTS topped iTunes Top Song charts of 83 territories around the world with “Still With You,” one of his recently released self-composed solo pieces, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The song was first uploaded on the music sharing service Soundcloud to download for free in [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Jungkook of K-pop supergroup BTS announced Friday he will drop his first official solo song next month. The track, titled “Seven,” will arrive on July 14 at 1 p.m., the vocalist said on Weverse, Hybe’s K-pop fan community platform. It is an invigorating, summery song that will make BTS [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Jihyo of popular K-pop girl group TWICE will make a debut as a solo artist in August with her debut solo album, “Zone,” her agency said Monday. The singer will drop the EP, led by the lead track “Killin’ Me Good,” at 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, JYP Entertainment [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Ateez’s latest EP, “The World Ep. 2: Outlaw,” has landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, marking the band’s highest-charting entry yet. The EP had earned 105,500 equivalent album units in the United States since its release on June 16, including 101,000 units of album [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty Fifty has become the longest-charting K-pop girl group on the Billboard Hot 100 in history as it stayed on the U.S. music chart for the 13th consecutive week. According to the latest chart unveiled Tuesday (U.S. time), the group ranked 24th this week, three places down from the [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Le Sserafim will roll out its second Japanese-language single on Aug. 23, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The single, “Unforgiven,” will have three tracks, including Japanese language versions of “Unforgiven,” the title track of the group’s first studio album of the same name released in May, [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Nmixx will return with its third single, “A Midsummer Nmixx’s Dream,” on July 11, the group’s agency said Tuesday. JYP Entertainment teased the upcoming release on the band’s official social media channels earlier in the day. The six-piece group’s last release was “Expergo,” its first EP [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Three members of K-pop boy group EXO have decided to maintain their exclusive contracts with SM Entertainment after resolving differences over a contract issue, both sides said Monday. Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen of the nine-piece group had been in a dispute with the K-pop powerhouse over what they claimed [...]