SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Super Junior on Friday indefinitely put off its Japanese concerts after the neighboring country announced a plan to introduce quarantine measures for travelers from South Korea. Tokyo has announced that travelers coming from South Korea and China will be asked to stay at designated facilities for [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Many K-pop artists are turning to live online shows to reach out to fans as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak keeps people away from public gatherings. Last month, four-piece boy band WINNER performed live to 964,000 fans through V Live, an online broadcasting platform owned by internet portal Naver. The [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — “ON,” the lead track of BTS’ new album, debuted at 4th on the Hot 100 singles chart this week, the highest rank for any BTS song, Billboard said Monday (U.S. time). “BTS scores its third and highest-peaking Hot 100 top 10, and the highest-charting song ever for a K-pop [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Topping the key American and British music charts with record-breaking first-week sales figures this week, K-pop phenomenon BTS is changing the global music landscape as arguably the most influential cross-border musical act in decades. According to Billboard, BTS’ latest album, “Map of the Soul: 7,” debuted atop the Billboard [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday canceled the inaugural Seoul leg of its new world tour set to kick off in April as its home country is struggling to contain mass outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The band’s management agency broke the news through its mobile fan platform, Weverse. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Monsta X, a six-piece K-pop boy band, debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart this week, becoming the third K-pop band ever to make the top five on the album tally. “All About Luv,” the band’s new album, came in fifth on the album chart dated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Putting on the debut performance of “ON,” the lead track of the new BTS album “Map of the Soul: 7,” the South Korean super band has rocked Grand Central Terminal, a symbolic public space in New York City. The septet unveiled a premiere performance of “ON,” pre-filmed in a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — “Map of the Soul: 7,” the new album of K-pop super band BTS, is bound to debut atop the Billboard 200 next week, the band’s historic fourth No. 1 on the chart, the company has said. “The set, which was released Feb. 21 via Big Hit Entertainment, could earn [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — “They pull everybody together, in a time where it seems like the world is going the opposite, so we need people like that who are bringing people together,” said American trombonist Duane Benjamin, who participated in K-pop boy band BTS’s fourth album, “Map of the Soul: 7.” Benjamin appeared [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop ‘super rookie’ band ITZY will return to the music scene next month with a new EP, “IT’z ME,” the band’s management agency said Saturday. “IT’z ME,” set for official release on March 9, is the quintet’s second EP since the band made a sensational debut in February last [...]