SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop superband BTS made a good start high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for this week. The rapper-dancer placed 17th on the Billboard 200 with his first formal solo album, “Jack in the Box,” Billboard said on a social media Tuesday. “Arson,” one of the [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Olympic gold medalist figure skater Kim Yu-na will tie the knot with a classical singer in October, her management agency said Monday. Kim Yu-na and Ko Woo-rim will hold their wedding in Seoul in late October, according to All That Sports. It did not elaborate on the exact date [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — New K-pop girl group Ive will put out a new single next month, the group’s management agency said Monday. Starship Entertainment unveiled a teaser image for the group’s third single, “After Like,” announcing the band will return on Aug. 22. “After Like” will be band’s first release since its [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group ITZY claimed its first top 10 spot on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, with its fifth EP, “Checkmate.” “ITZY’s Checkmate debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, giving the South Korean quintet its first top 10 effort,” Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) in [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Multinational K-pop group The Boyz will return to the music scene with its seventh EP next month, the band’s management agency said Friday. IST Entertainment announced the album will be rolled out on Aug. 16 but did not give any details about it, including its title. The 11-piece group [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yun-chan’s popularity is on the rise after clinching the gold in the finals of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Lim’s mention of Dante Alighieri’s narrative poem in a press release on June 30 has been gaining particular attention. The 18-year-old student of the Korea National [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Four BTS members — Jin, Jimin, V and Jungkook — will drop a collaboration project with U.S. producer-singer-songwriter Benny Blanco and rapper Snoop Dogg next month, the K-pop group’s agency said Thursday. The song “Bad Decisions” will come out Aug. 5 and will be included on Blanco’s third full-length [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie girl group STAYC dropped its third single “We Need Love” on Tuesday, its agency Highup Entertainment said. The single album comes five months after it released its second EP “Young-Luv.com” led by “RUN2U” in February. The six-piece group debuted in November 2020 with the song “So Bad” and [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie, a member of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, will appear in the upcoming U.S. TV series “The Idol,” her agency said Tuesday. Co-created by Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian pop star known by his stage name of the Weeknd, Sam Levison and Reza Fahim, the new series is set [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop boy group Seventeen returned Monday with a repackaged version of its fourth studio album, “Face the Sun.” The new album titled “Sector 17″ have four new songs, including “_World,” “Fallin’ Flower” and “Cheers,” in addition to nine tracks off “Face the Sun,” according to the band’s agency, Pledis [...]