SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean all-female band BLACKPINK’s music video “How You Like That” has garnered 800 million views on YouTube in what its agency said was reached in the shortest time for a female K-pop act. The quartet’s music video of the hit song reached the milestone at 9:58 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose of K-pop girl band BLACKPINK has dominated iTunes charts in 51 countries, with her latest solo song, her agency said Saturday. According to YG Entertainment, the song, “On The Ground,” from her first solo album “R,” topped iTunes Top Songs charts in countries that included the United States, [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band SHINee will hold its first-ever online concert next month after coming back from a two-year hiatus, the group’s management agency said Saturday. The concert, titled “Beyond LIVE – SHINee: SHINee World,” will be livestreamed on April 4 on V Live, a streaming platform of the country’s [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, the main vocalist of K-pop sensation BLACKPINK, said the two tracks for her first solo album “R” came like fate, explaining how she instantly fell in love with them. The singer, the second member of the four-piece act to go solo, released the two-track album featuring songs “On [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS swept the top two spots on a worldwide album sales chart last year, according to an organization representing the global recording industry. The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Thursday (U.S. time) that “Map of the Soul: 7″ ranked No. 1 and “BE” No. 2 [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Suga, a member of global sensation BTS, celebrated his birthday in a meaningful way this year by making a donation for child cancer patients in his hometown. The rapper-singer donated 100 million won (US$88,012) to Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital in Daegu, 302 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Tuesday, his [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – IZ*ONE, a project girl group that debuted through a reality audition TV show, will disband next month as planned. “IZ*ONE’s project will wrap up in April as planned,” said music channel Mnet that had aired the series as well as the act’s management agencies. Swing Entertainment and Off the [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In today’s world where social media is omnipresent, random things that fascinate people — think viral cat videos, TikTok dance challenges, political conspiracies — tend to go viral with the smallest triggers. For one K-pop girl group, this happened in an unexpected yet dramatic way. Brave Girls, a once-forgotten [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS, which earned a nomination from this year’s Grammy Awards, is set to perform at music’s biggest night in the United States next week, the event’s organizers have said. The Recording Academy on Sunday (U.S. time) announced the full performers lineup for the 63rd Grammys. BTS is [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Following female K-pop solo singers Sunmi and Chungha’s successful music releases in late February, March is expected to be another impressive month with top-tier acts getting ready for comebacks. Sunmi, the K-pop queen who has carved out a unique discography with her charismatic songs, and Chungha, one of the [...]