SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS has set another record, with its latest single “Butter” becoming the most-watched music video on YouTube in 24 hours since its debut, its agency said Sunday. The upbeat summer song had racked up 108.2 million views in its first 24 hours of release on Friday, Big Hit Music [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop dynamo BTS has topped more than 100 regional iTunes charts and surpassed 100 million YouTube views in less than a day with its latest single “Butter,” its management agency said Saturday. The vibrant pop-dance number, released at 1 p.m. on Friday here, debuted at No. 1 on iTunes [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS, the K-pop juggernaut that has emerged as the world’s biggest band, said its music has always been the best conclusion to the numerous questions the group contemplates on. “We always question ourselves — what BTS wants to do, what we want to express and what people want to [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop juggernaut BTS released its much-awaited digital single “Butter,” with the vibrant summer pop-dance track racking up more than 34 million YouTube views in just three hours. The seven-piece group rolled out the succinctly titled track at 1 p.m., less than a year after dropping its massively successful English-language [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe Edu, an affiliate of K-pop powerhouse Hybe, plans to develop learning material for Korean classes at overseas elementary and middle schools, the company said Tuesday. The company said it recently signed a business partnership with the International Korean Education Foundation to develop support material for Korean language classes [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS is set to appear as the first performer on a summer concert series hosted by the popular American TV show “Good Morning America.” The seven-piece act is among a lineup of more than 20 musicians who will be performing at this year’s series that will run [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — All employees at McDonald’s worldwide will be wearing shirts inscribed with Korean letters for work. Starting with the United States, Canada, and Brazil on May 26, all McDonald’s stores in 49 countries across six continents will begin a new marketing program using Korean letters as they introduce the ‘BTS [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS is featured on the cover of the latest issue of U.S. popular culture magazine Rolling Stone. “BTS appears on our June cover,” the magazine tweeted Thursday (local time), posting an interview with the septet as the cover story on its website. The magazine said it is [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS will make a guest appearance on a reunion special of the popular American sitcom “Friends” later this month, according to Billboard. The seven-piece act will join the original cast of the ’90s comedy and other top stars in the special to air May 27 on streaming [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe, the K-pop powerhouse behind BTS, Seventeen and Enhypen, has opened what it calls a “music museum” for its artists and fans at its new headquarters in central Seoul. The 4,700-square meter venue spread across two basement floors at Hybe Yongsan features giant screens that show a rotating selection [...]