SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member J-Hope on Tuesday shared the new song “Blue Side” on the third anniversary of his debut solo mixtape “Hope World.” “Blue Side,” uploaded on Sound Cloud and the seven-piece act’s official blog, is a track that was included as an outro on J-Hope’s 2018 mixtape that has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Global superstar BTS on Wednesday brought to stage songs from its latest album “BE” and a surprise cover of band Coldplay’s hit “Fix You” in its debut performance on the iconic music program “MTV Unplugged.” The seven-piece act kicked off the show with its first-ever performance of “Telepathy,” a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — “Map of the Soul: 7,” an album by global superstar BTS, has stayed on the Billboard main albums chart for almost one straight year this week, recording another piece of history for K-pop. According to the latest Billboard chart results updated Tuesday (U.S. time), the mega-hit album released in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment Co., the management agency behind global superstars BTS, said Tuesday its net profit rose 19 percent last year from the previous year amid the growing popularity of its flagship K-pop group. Net profit stood at 86.2 billion won (US$77.6 million) in 2020 on a consolidated basis, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BTS was the most tweeted about musician in the United States last year, the band’s agency said Monday. In a recent survey by Twitter, BTS topped the list of 2020 most tweeted about musicians in the U.S., followed by Kanye West, Beyonce and Drake, according to Big [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — What would it look like if K-pop megastar BTS members decorated a fan’s room? The septet recently introduced a new series titled Curated for ARMY, where they become curators to decorate the rooms of its dedicated fan base ARMY. Visitors can access an audio guide by clicking on props [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Global superstar BTS has set another record on YouTube, with its music video for the 2017 song “DNA” earning 1.2 billion views on YouTube, the band’s agency said Thursday. YouTube views for “DNA,” released in September 2017, broke the record at 3:13 a.m., becoming the seven-piece act’s first music [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Global superstars BTS will be appearing on “MTV Unplugged” later this month, becoming the first Korean act to perform on the iconic music program produced by American broadcaster MTV. “On Feb. 23, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook will bring their collective energy to an update of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS has been included in a list of the world’s top 10 best pop bands in history selected by American men’s magazine Esquire. Esquire announced Friday (U.S. time) that it included the South Korean septet in the publication’s retrospective feature article highlighting the “10 Best Pop [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind global star BTS, announced on Wednesday that it plans to invest 70 billion won (US$63 million) in YG Entertainment, one of the biggest K-pop agencies in South Korea. Under the deal, Big Hit and its affiliate beNX will invest 30 billion won and [...]