SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Following an enormous fire engulfing South Korea’s eastern coastal region, sensational K-pop girl band BLACKPINK called off its press conference set for Friday morning to announce the release of a new album, “Kill This Love.” YG Entertainment, the management agency for the girl band, made the decision, formally citing [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band BLACKPINK will put out a new album, “Kill This Love,” next month, its management agency said Monday. YG Entertainment released a teaser image on its official website for the upcoming EP, announcing its release set for April 5. The image shows the band’s Thai member, Lisa, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A pink-hued photo image of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK hit the cover of the Billboard magazine’s March edition, making the quartet the first Korean female music group representing the American pop magazine. The cover image of Billboard’s March edition was released on its official website on Thursday (U.S. time), [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sensational K-pop girl band BLACKPINK has debuted on U.S. television, performing live on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The four-piece girl band staged live their latest, wildly successful song, “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du” on the late night CBS show on Monday (U.S. time) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band BLACKPINK will take the stage on a late-night talk show hosted by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert next week, the U.S. broadcaster CBS has said. CBS said Wednesday that the four-piece group is scheduled to perform at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York and chat with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Jennie, the pivotal member of K-pop girl band BLACKPINK, and Kai from the boy band EXO split up less than one month after their romantic relationship was exposed by a media outlet, according to the latter’s management agency on Friday. “The two parted ways,” SM Entertainment told the media, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A large arena in Seoul was rocked with cheers from some 10,000 fans when the sharp intro of “DDU-DU DDU-DU,” the popular title track off girl group BLACKPINK’s first EP album “Square Up,” was played. The song opened the “Black Pink 2018 Tour [In Your Area] Seoul x BC [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will go on its first global tour starting in Seoul this month, its agency, YG Entertainment, said Thursday. After its Seoul concerts on Nov. 10 and 11, the four-member act will perform in Bangkok on Jan. 12 and 13, in Jakarta on Jan. 20, in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sensational K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has signed a contract with Interscope Records, a major music label under Universal Music Group, to tap into the U.S. pop market, the band’s Korean management agency said Tuesday. Interscope has published music of such high-profile American artists as Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Maroon 5 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of K-pop girl band BLACKPINK’s “DDU-DU DDU-DU” has surpassed the threshold of 300 million YouTube views just two months after its release. The feat was achieved on Thursday, 68 days after the release of the song and its umbrella album, “Square Up,” setting the record the [...]