SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The debut single from PSS, a unit of the K-pop boy group Seventeen, sold 470,000 copies on the day of its release, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The three-track single titled “Second Wind” set the record for the biggest first-week sales by a unit of a K-pop group by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop juggernaut BTS has failed to secure its first Grammy for the third consecutive year. BTS ran for best pop duo or group performance with “My Universe,” along with the British rock band Coldplay, and best music video for “Yet to Come” at the 65th Grammy Awards in Los [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Boy group Tomorrow X Together claimed the first No. 1 in its career on Billboard 200 as its latest album, “The Name Chapter: Temptation,” debuted atop the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart. Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) the South Korean band topped the upcoming Billboard 200 chart for this [...]
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. [...]