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 29 (Korea Bizwire) — “OMG,” a hit song from rookie girl group NewJeans, has garnered 300 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Saturday. The song had recorded 301,242,550 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Thursday, after its release on Jan. 2 this year, ADOR said. The group’s [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Stray Kids will roll out its third full-length album, “5-Star,” in June, the group’s management agency said Friday. According to JYP Entertainment, “5-Star” will hit music services on June 2 to become the band’s first studio album since “Noeasy” in August 2021. The agency posted a [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS has kicked off his first world tour as a solo artist in the United States, his agency said Thursday. The “Suga | Agust D-Day” tour, which started at UBS Arena in Belmont, New York, on Wednesday (U.S. time), will take him to nine cities [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — “Ditto,” a hit song from rookie girl group NewJeans, has garnered 300 million streams on Spotify, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The song had recorded 301,232,001 streams on the world’s largest music streaming platform as of Monday, 126 days after its release on Dec. 19, ADOR said. It added [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty ranked at No. 50 in its fifth week on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with its new single “Cupid.” According to the latest chart unveiled Tuesday (U.S. time), “Cupid” rose 10 spots from 60th last week. The quartet debuted on the chart at No. [...]