SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ mega-hit single “Butter” has topped Billboard’s Digital Song sales chart again, giving the South Korean superband a record 46 weeks at No. 1. According to updated Billboard charts on Tuesday (U.S. time), “Butter,” released in May, ranked No. 1 on the weekly Digital Song Sales list, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop phenomenon BTS clinched four top awards at the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) on Saturday, sweeping the annual music award event for the third year in a row. The septet received album of the year, song of the year, artist of the year and worldwide icon of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has won three prizes at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards, the latest in a series of honors it took home from the United States this year. The South Korean group won the group of 2021 and both the song and the music video of 2021 for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS will take a long vacation from Monday to spend the holiday season with their family members upon returning from a trip to Los Angeles where it secured a music honor and had four sold-out live concerts, the group’s agency said. It will be the group’s second [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS’ mega-hit single “Butter” has been selected as the Record of the Year by U.S. magazine Variety, the label behind the group said Sunday. BTS won the award for its second English-language single “Butter” during Variety’s Hitmakers event held in Los Angeles on Saturday (local time). “The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has taken the opening stage for the Los Angeles stop of this year’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, the largest year-end radio show in the United States, the group’s agency said Saturday. The septet performed its English-language hit singles “Butter” and “Dynamite,” with the latter sung [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will continue its latest live concert series in Seoul in March, its management agency said Friday, after the group successfully finished its sold-out live concerts in Los Angeles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “See you in Seoul, March 2022,” Big Hit Music announced in a brief posting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superband BTS has topped nine of Billboard’s year-end charts for 2021, including the year’s top duo/group category. According to Billboard on Friday, BTS ranked No. 1 on the lists of Top Artists – Duo/Group, Hot 100 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard 200 Artists – Duo/Group, Billboard Global Excl. U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean group BTS was the third most-streamed global artist on Spotify, one of the world’s biggest players of music streaming, this year, data from the service showed Thursday. According to the Spotify Wrapped 2021 data, BTS ranked third after Puerto Rican vocalist Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS will be unable to attend the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMAs) scheduled for next week as the members have to go through COVID-19 isolation upon arrival from the United States due to tightened quarantine rules. The government decided to place all overseas arrivals under a [...]