SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS topped the Billboard Artist 100 and Social 50 charts as its new single “Dynamite” scored its second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard said Wednesday (U.S. local time) that BTS ranked No. 1 for the second consecutive week on this week’s Artist [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A promotional video of K-pop superstars BTS introducing travel spots in the South Korean capital will go live this week, the Seoul city government said Thursday. While the new coronavirus has put a brake on the global tourism industry, the city government said the video was aimed at “continuously [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS ranked first on the Billboard main singles chart for the second consecutive week Tuesday with its latest single “Dynamite.” “BTS’ ‘Dynamite’ is officially No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100 chart for a second consecutive week,” Billboard said on Twitter. The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An estimated 1.7 trillion won (US$1.43 billion) worth of economic effect is expected to be created by K-pop sensation BTS’ conquest of the Billboard Hot 100 chart last week, government data showed Monday. Last week, BTS debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s main singles chart with its latest English-language [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Along with the global explosion of K-pop, the need among global fans to better understand what K-pop artists are singing, saying and writing in Korean has grown significantly. The online edition of American business magazine Forbes highlighted in a recent article that many international fans of K-pop nowadays are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As BTS conquered the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with “Dynamite,” the achievement has also rekindled a debate on whether global K-pop stars should be offered preferential treatment in terms of military duties so as to avoid a hiatus during the height of their careers. On Tuesday, BTS [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s hard to fathom, but for global K-pop super group BTS, the band’s biggest goal once was to enter not the top 10 or top 40 but just land on the Hot 100, the main singles chart of Billboard for the top 100 popular songs in the United States, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS made history in becoming the first South Korean pop singer or group to clinch the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. But the seven-member boy band is hardly the first Korean artist to set its sights on various charts operated by the popular American music publication. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop super group BTS on Wednesday thanked its global fans for pushing its latest single “Dynamite” to the top of Billboard’s main singles chart, making the band the first South Korean artist to achieve the landmark feat. “I want to thank ARMY for making such a great achievement possible. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS picked up four awards at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards held in the United States on Sunday (U.S. time), while putting on its first television performance of its hit single “Dynamite” on the American TV network. The South Korean septet won in the categories of [...]