SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS and Tomorrow X Together (TXT) — both managed by K-pop powerhouse Big Hit Music — have simultaneously landed on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart with their all-English tracks. BTS ranked No. 11 with “Butter” on the latest version of the radio chart, which reflects weekly data from around 160 [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Seventeen has landed on Billboard’s main albums chart this week with its new EP, making its first appearance on the prominent U.S. music chart in its seven-year career. “Your Choice” came in at No. 15 on this week’s Billboard 200, the U.S. music publisher said Monday [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop star band TWICE’s new EP album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard main albums chart this week, becoming the second K-pop girl group to make the chart’s top 10. “K-pop girl group TWICE debuts at No. 6 with ‘Taste of Love,’ with 46,000 equivalent album units earned,” [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT) saw its latest album land at fifth place on the Billboard main albums chart in its best record since debut. “South Korean pop quintet Tomorrow x Together notches its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’ [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS has achieved another historic milestone, landing at No. 1 on the Billboard’s main singles chart with its latest single, “Butter.” “BTS’ “Butter” bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart,” Billboard said Tuesday (U.S. time), citing figures from MRC Data showing how [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop rookie Enhypen has landed on Billboard’s main albums chart this week with its latest EP, making its first appearance on the prominent U.S. music chart in just over six months since its debut. “Border: Carnival,” the boy band’s second EP released on April 26, ranked No. 18 on [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group ITZY has landed on Billboard’s main albums chart for the first time in the third year of its debut. The five-piece act’s latest EP “Guess Who,” reached No. 148 on the Billboard 200, which compiles the week’s most popular albums in the United States, according to [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized construction workers on Thursday demanded the removal of a billboard suggesting their wives will sleep with other men if they do not stay safe at work. The billboard, which has been installed at the construction sites of major builders since 2017, shows a woman and man in bed, [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop dynamo BTS has done it again. After making it on the Billboard’s main singles chart with its Korean and English songs, the group landed its new Japanese single on the Hot 100. “Film Out,” the seven-piece act’s Japanese single released on April 2, ranked No. 81 on the [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s Rose saw her debut solo release reach No. 70 on Billboard’s main singles chart in the highest ranking for a K-pop female soloist. “On the Ground,” the title track of her double-track solo release “R,” hit No. 70 on the latest version of the Billboard’s Hot 100 updated [...]