SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Only less than two weeks have passed since the start of the New Year, but the K-pop scene is already busy with news of rookie girl groups getting global attention or preparing for their official debuts. One of the hottest is Ive, the Starship Entertainment-managed group that made its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Enhypen returned with a repackage album Monday after spending a successful year as a rookie group with less than two years since its debut. Released in October last year as the first part of the group’s new “Dimension” album series, the group’s first full album, “Dimension: Dilemma,” has since [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS has grabbed the honor of having the most sold digital song of the year in the United States for the second time. “Butter” was the most sold digital song of the year in the country with 1.89 million downloads sold, according to an annual year-end report [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS sold more than 1 million copies of its latest Japanese compilation album, data showed Thursday, becoming the first South Korean pop singers to achieve the feat since 2005. According to the data from Japanese music market tracker Oricon, the album titled “BTS, The Best” added 3,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – V, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, is about to make it onto the Billboard main singles chart for this week with his individual single “Christmas Tree.” The song will debut at No. 79 on the Hot 100 for this week, Billboard said on its Twitter on Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Two more members of the K-pop supergroup BTS — RM and Jin — were confirmed to have fully recovered from the new coronavirus and released from isolation Tuesday after Suga, their agency said. “Members RM and Jin were released from isolation at noon as they were confirmed to have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS has fully recovered from the new coronavirus and been released from isolation, his agency said Monday. “Suga was released from isolation at noon as he was confirmed to have fully recovered from COVID-19,” Big Hit Music said on the agency’s fan community platform Weverse. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — J-hope, a member of K-pop superband BTS, donated 100 million won (US$84,000) Friday for children suffering economic hardships amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, a charity group said. According to ChildFund Korea, J-hope expressed hope that his donation will be used to help children in need have a warm winter. [...]
JEJU, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A small town on Jeju Island is going viral on social media after a surprise visit from Jimin, a member of K-pop superband BTS. Nuwemaru Street, a busy shopping district in the city of Jeju, was hosting a Christmas event on Saturday to promote the local economy. Jimin, on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading K-pop agency, formed a new supergroup Monday with seven of its top female artists. GOT the beat consists of diva BoA; Taeyeon and Hyoyeon of Girls’ Generation; Seulgi and Wendy of Red Velvet and Karina and Winter of aespa. It is the first group formed [...]