SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment on Monday revealed its much-anticipated first boy group in six years since the debut of Day6 in September 2015. Xdinary Heroes landed in the highly competitive K-pop music scene, dropping its debut digital single titled “Happy Death Day.” During a media showcase for the upcoming [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS will take a long vacation from Monday to spend the holiday season with their family members upon returning from a trip to Los Angeles where it secured a music honor and had four sold-out live concerts, the group’s agency said. It will be the group’s second [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ mega-hit single “Butter” has been selected as the Record of the Year by U.S. magazine Variety, the label behind the group said Sunday. BTS won the award for its second English-language single “Butter” during Variety’s Hitmakers event held in Los Angeles on Saturday (local time). “The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has taken the opening stage for the Los Angeles stop of this year’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, the largest year-end radio show in the United States, the group’s agency said Saturday. The septet performed its English-language hit singles “Butter” and “Dynamite,” with the latter sung [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has topped nine of Billboard’s year-end charts for 2021, including the year’s top duo/group category. According to Billboard on Friday, BTS ranked No. 1 on the lists of Top Artists – Duo/Group, Hot 100 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard 200 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard Global Excl. U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A live video of singer-songwriter IU on media channel Dingo was the most viewed video on YouTube in South Korea this year, the company said Thursday. “IU’s Killing Voice Live,” the 18-minute video of IU singing live on YouTube’s Dingo Music channel, ranked first with over 30 million views, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will be unable to attend the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) scheduled for next week as the members have to go through COVID-19 isolation upon arrival from the United States due to tightened quarantine rules. The government decided to place all overseas arrivals under a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kai, a member of popular K-pop boy group EXO, said Tuesday he wanted to show his new side “as sweet as a peach” in his new release as an individual artist. “If I had a weighty image as an EXO member and individual artist, I wanted to show a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS has expressed confidence it can win a Grammy award sometime in the future, citing an old saying, “Little strokes fell great oaks,” despite disappointment of falling short of winning a nomination for the top four Grammys last week. “I grew up watching the Grammy Awards since [...]
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS held its first in-person concert in two years in Los Angeles on Saturday, drawing about 50,000 American fans. Saturday’s concert at SoFi Stadium in the U.S. city marked the septet’s first non-virtual concert since 2019, when the group performed in Seoul. Tens of thousands of fans [...]