SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Taeyang of boy group BIGBANG has signed a management contract with The Black Label headed by K-pop producer Teddy, his former agency said Monday. “BIGBANG’s Taeyang came to work as an artist of The Black Label affiliated with YG Entertainment,” YG said in a press release. Founded by Teddy, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127 will release “Ay-Yo,” a repackaging of its fourth full-length album, next month, the group’s management agency said Monday. The album will come out Jan. 30 and has 15 tracks, including three new songs, SM Entertainment said. The band’s latest album, “2 Baddies,” was released [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Song Joong-ki has been in a romantic relationship with a woman, his entertainment agency said Monday, following a newspaper report that he’s been dating a British woman. “Song is dating a woman who he has good feelings toward,” High Zium Studio said in a statement Monday, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Stray Kids will put out their first Japanese-language studio album on Feb. 22 to take a step further into the market, the band’s agency said Friday. JYP Entertainment made the announcement in a press release while also unveiling a teaser video of the upcoming album [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has become the first overseas act to top the Japanese music tracker Oricon’s total annual sales ranking for the second consecutive year. The South Korean band ranked No. 1 both in the total rankings and digital rankings in the “artist sales” category, according to the annual [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The choreography video for “How You Like That,” a 2020 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube. The group’s agency, YG Entertainment, said Friday the video hit the milestone at about 7:30 a.m., becoming the quartet’s fourth video with more than 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE will release a new English-language single in January and its 12th EP two months later, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The band also tweeted a teaser image showing the schedules for the upcoming releases, with text apparently indicating the English song will come out Jan. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS’ live concert movie will be available on big screens globally in February, film distributor CJ CGV said Tuesday. “BTS: Yet To Come in Cinemas” captures the best moments from the band’s free concert titled “Yet to Come” held in the southern port city of Busan on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group NCT Dream’s special winter EP, “Candy,” has surpassed 2 million copies in preorders, the group’s agency, SM Entertainment, said Monday. A subunit of the K-pop supergroup NCT released the six-track EP digitally Friday and will release it physically later Monday. It marks NCT Dream’s first [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop sensation BTS will perform on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” an annual New Year’s Eve special show by ABC TV, its entertainment agency Big Hit Music said Friday. He will sing three songs, his solo “= (Equal Sign)” (2022), “Chicken Noodle Soup” (2019) and a [...]