SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has won four nominations at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, the U.S. TV station said Tuesday (U.S. time). The septet was nominated in the categories of Best K-pop, Best Choreography, Best Metaverse Performance and Best Visual Effects. The band has been awarded at the [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment said Tuesday it will start a program to debut new girl groups based on K-pop’s idol training system in partnership with a U.S. label. Under the “A2K” project, JYP will cooperate with Republic Records, one of the largest U.S. record labels and owned by Universal [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop superband BTS made a good start high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for this week. The rapper-dancer placed 17th on the Billboard 200 with his first formal solo album, “Jack in the Box,” Billboard said on a social media Tuesday. “Arson,” one of the [...]
PYEONGCHANG, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Airbnb said Tuesday it has teamed up with Hybe, the entertainment company behind BTS, to offer fans of the K-pop band a chance to relive moments featured in season two of the “IN THE SOOP BTS” reality show. Airbnb said up to two guests can stay overnight at an [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — New K-pop girl group Ive will put out a new single next month, the group’s management agency said Monday. Starship Entertainment unveiled a teaser image for the group’s third single, “After Like,” announcing the band will return on Aug. 22. “After Like” will be band’s first release since its [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group ITZY claimed its first top 10 spot on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, with its fifth EP, “Checkmate.” “ITZY’s Checkmate debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, giving the South Korean quintet its first top 10 effort,” Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) in [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Multinational K-pop group The Boyz will return to the music scene with its seventh EP next month, the band’s management agency said Friday. IST Entertainment announced the album will be rolled out on Aug. 16 but did not give any details about it, including its title. The 11-piece group [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Four BTS members — Jin, Jimin, V and Jungkook — will drop a collaboration project with U.S. producer-singer-songwriter Benny Blanco and rapper Snoop Dogg next month, the K-pop group’s agency said Thursday. The song “Bad Decisions” will come out Aug. 5 and will be included on Blanco’s third full-length [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows for the second consecutive week, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the cable channel ENA beginning June 29, [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie girl group STAYC dropped its third single “We Need Love” on Tuesday, its agency Highup Entertainment said. The single album comes five months after it released its second EP “Young-Luv.com” led by “RUN2U” in February. The six-piece group debuted in November 2020 with the song “So Bad” and [...]