SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — “Hype Boy,” one of the debut singles by newbie girl group NewJeans, has garnered 200 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Sunday. The song had hit 210,116,556 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Friday, 186 days after its release in August, ADOR said. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will roll out its 12th EP, “Ready to Be,” next month, the group’s agency said Friday. The upcoming album will drop on March 10 to become the first EP from the nine-piece group since “Between 1&2″ in August, JYP Entertainment said. The 11th EP reached [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastars BTS will unveil a photo book this month featuring images of member J-Hope, the group’s management agency said Thursday. The photo book, titled “All New Hope,” will come out Feb. 17 as part of the septet’s “Special 8 Photo-Folio” project launched in September to show off the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together’s latest album sold more than 2 million copies in the first week of its release, the group’s agency said Thursday. “The Name Chapter: Temptation,” the quintet’s fifth EP, sold 2,027,817 copies as of Wednesday, only six days after it dropped, BigHit Music said. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Three new songs from K-pop rookie NewJeans exploded onto the latest monthly chart of Melon, South Korea’s largest music streaming service. The girl group swept the top three spots, with “Ditto” debuting at No. 1, followed by “OMG” and “Hype Boy,” according to the chart released Wednesday. The first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will be honored at this year’s Billboard Women in Music Awards. The group will receive the Breakthrough Artist award at the annual ceremony slated for March 1 in Los Angeles, according to Billboard’s website. It will be the first K-pop artist to be recognized at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Le Sserafim’s first Japanese-language single “Fearless” ranked No. 1 on Oricon’s weekly singles chart, its agency, Source Music, said Tuesday. It is the first time in five years and three months that a foreign female artist has topped Japan’s main music chart with its debut album. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled a new vision for transforming mobility into a living space connected with buildings. The group on Monday released a “Mobile Living Space” animation video showing a scenario organically connecting mobility with buildings. The video, which is about four minutes long, showcased mobility solutions combined [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Song Joong-ki said Monday he has just been married to British actress Katy Louise Saunders and she is pregnant with his baby. The 37-year-old actor made the surprise announcement in a letter to a fan club, saying the couple has just completed the marriage registration. “I [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127 has completed its second world tour, “Neo City:The Link,” which has drawn some 700,000 spectators in 17 major cities, its management agency SM Entertainment said Monday. Beginning in Seoul in December 2021, the nine-member group performed in 28 rounds of concerts in several countries, [...]