SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming subscription service, announced Wednesday the launch of a program to support rising Korean hip-hop artists. Kicking off and as part of the “K-hip-hop Rookies” program, five hip-hop rookies who took part in the South Korean TV rap competition show “Show Me The Money [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group aespa will perform at The Governors Ball Music Festival 2023, a major annual outdoor music festival in New York City, the group’s agency said Wednesday. It will become the first K-pop act to perform at the festival, according to SM Entertainment. This year’s event will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Choi Yena, a K-pop soloist who was a member of the now-disbanded project girl group IZ*ONE, freed herself of the bubbly and bright image from her previous albums with the release of her first single, “Love War,” on Monday. She made a 180-degree turn to appear as a dark [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — GOT the beat, SM Entertainment’s project girl group, returned with a new album Monday, the group’s agency said. The septet’s first EP, “Stamp On It,” consists of six tracks, including the title track of the same name, “Goddess Level” and “Alter Ego,” according to SM. The song “Stamp On [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together will launch its second world tour in March, the group’s management agency said Monday. The “Act: Sweet Mirage” world tour will begin at KSPO Dome in southern Seoul on March 25-26 and continue in a dozen more cities in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple TV+’s Korean language drama “Pachinko” has won the best foreign language series at this year’s Critics Choice Awards. At the ceremony held by the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles on Sunday (U.S. time), “Pachinko” won the trophy in the TV category to beat eight other contestants. A [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s 2016 single “Playing with Fire” has surpassed 800 million views on YouTube. The video crossed the milestone Monday at about 1:40 a.m., six years and two months after it was uploaded on the global video sharing service, YG Entertainment, the band’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of K-pop albums hit a fresh high last year, data showed Monday, as limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continued to push up demand for physical albums. K-pop album exports hit US$233.113 million in 2022, up 5.6 percent from a year ago, according to import and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new single by boy group BIGBANG’s Taeyang featuring Jimin of BTS topped iTunes’ global songs chart, his management agency said Saturday. “Vibe,” rolled out Friday, claimed the No. 1 spot on the Worldwide iTunes Song chart and topped iTunes’ top songs charts in about 60 countries around the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer Lee Seung-gi donated 550 million won (US$442,250) Friday to the Korean Red Cross on the occasion of his birthday, the humanitarian organization said. His donation will be used to make bloodmobiles and mobile meal service vehicles for disaster relief operations, it said. At the donation ceremony, the Red [...]