SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie, a member of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, will appear in the upcoming U.S. TV series “The Idol,” her agency said Tuesday. Co-created by Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian pop star known by his stage name of the Weeknd, Sam Levison and Reza Fahim, the new series is set [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop boy group Seventeen returned Monday with a repackaged version of its fourth studio album, “Face the Sun.” The new album titled “Sector 17″ have four new songs, including “_World,” “Fallin’ Flower” and “Cheers,” in addition to nine tracks off “Face the Sun,” according to the band’s agency, Pledis [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, the group’s agency YG Entertainment said Monday. The achievement came about 10 months after the song passed 500 million, according to the agency. BLACKPINK is now the only K-pop [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — “Girls,” the second EP from South Korean girl group aespa, landed at No. 3 on U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart. Billboard has said in an article Sunday (U.S. time) that the quartet reached the milestone on the upcoming Billboard 200 chart for this week by earning 56,000 equivalent album [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of K-pop albums have once again renewed their all-time-high level in the first half of this year, with the music continuing to be in its heyday, a local market tracker said. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, on Sunday, [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS dropped his first formal solo album Friday. “I did my best to make this album in order to show you a new side that you haven’t seen so far and myself having grown more,” the dancer-rapper said in a YouTube video introducing the new [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group ITZY rolled out a new EP on Friday, to be followed by its first-ever U.S. tour, the group’s agency said. The album, titled “Checkmate,” is the band’s fifth EP and first release in about 10 months since its first full-length album “Crazy in Love” last September. [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — “Girls,” the second EP from aespa, has broken the record for the biggest first week sales by a K-pop girl group in history, its agency said Thursday. The album set the record by selling more than 1.42 million copies in the first week of its release last Friday, SM [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has topped Netflix’s latest weekly viewership chart of non-English TV shows, the global video streaming service said Wednesday. The TV series, which has aired every Wednesday and Thursday on the cable channel ENA from June 29, marked 23.9 million hours of viewing [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The survival drama “Squid Game” earned 14 nominations including best drama series at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the first South Korean TV show to compete at America’s biggest honor for the broadcasting industry. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Tuesday (U.S. time) unveiled the final [...]