SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa has expanded its fictional universe from the cyberpunk metaverse to the “real world” for the band’s third EP “My World.” The group — consisting of Ningning, Winter, Giselle and Karina — dropped the album marking the band’s first release in 10 months at 6 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty Fifty has made it into the top 10 of the British Official Singles Chart for the first time as a K-pop girl group with its new viral hit song “Cupid.” According to the latest chart released Friday (British time), “Cupid” rose nine places from last week to rank [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO’s Kai will enlist in the military next week to fulfill his mandatory military service, his agency said Thursday. The 29-year-old will begin with a five-week basic training program at an Army boot camp from next Thursday, SM Entertainment said on its K-pop fan community platform, [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Le Sserafim has set a new record for the highest first-day sales by a K-pop girl group with its first full-length album, “Unforgiven,” according to sources in the music industry Wednesday. The sources said, citing figures from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of album sales, “Unforgiven” sold over [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — “Hype Boy,” a hit song from rookie girl group NewJeans, has become the group’s third song to garner 300 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The song had recorded 300,100,390 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Monday, after its release on Aug. [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BTOB is back with a spring breeze that makes people’s heart flutter and mellow love songs Tuesday. The sextet dropped “Wind and Wish,” its 12th EP and first release since March last year when it rolled out its third full-length album “Be Together.” The band wishes [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga, a member of K-pop giant BTS, has arrived at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with his first full-length solo album, “D-Day.” He tied with his bandmate Jimin, who hit the same position with “Face” last month, as the highest-charting K-pop soloist. Billboard said Monday [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Le Sserafim returned to the music scene on Monday with “Unforgiven,” its first full-length album since debuting about a year ago. “We’re pleased and think it is meaningful that we came back with a studio album on the eve of the first anniversary of our debut,” [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — “FML,” boy group Seventeen’s 10th EP, has set a new record for first-week sales by a K-pop album, as it sold 4.55 million copies in the debut week, according to the band’s agency Monday. Pledis Entertainment said “FML” sold about 4,550,214 copies in the first seven days after its [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung will hold a lunch meeting with young applicants in a project modeled after “Warren Buffett lunch” to connect better with younger generations, a South Korean business lobby said Sunday. The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) planned the “God-saeng One meal” project as [...]