SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS defeated Justin Bieber this week to become the longest-running artists atop Billboard’s Social 50 chart, the American pop magazine said Tuesday. “A long-standing record on Billboard’s Social 50 chart has been broken, as BTS spends its 164th week atop the list dated Feb. 8,” besting Justin [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS on Monday dropped the second trailer for its upcoming album, “Map of the Soul: 7,” set for official release on Feb. 21. “Outro: Ego,” member J-Hope’s solo song and the outro track of the band’s fourth full album, was released on BTS’ social media accounts and [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s intellectual property tribunal has recently ordered the cancellation of a cosmetics trademark that is similar to that of the K-pop group BTS. The Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board said Sunday it has ruled in favor of the band’s agency, Big Hit Entertainment, in a suit against [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS took the stage on a famous U.S. TV show early Wednesday morning, wearing sleek black suits and going barefoot for the debut performance of “Black Swan,” a track from its upcoming album. Against the backdrop of a forest in the blue light of dawn, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A thick mass of fog, tinted fluorescent green, yellow and pink, instantly blinds the visitor, who, unable to recognize the environment visually, has to use their other senses to proceed. A brief tour of the closed, round, fog-filled space, an art installation by Brussels-based artist Ann Veronica Janssens, inspires [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS has performed at the Grammys, becoming the first South Korean act to do so, in the latest in a series of milestones the band has accomplished in Korean music history. The septet teamed up with rapper Lil Nas X to take the stage at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS will dazzle the world music scene with a series of high-profile performances in the United Sates next week ahead of its official release of a new album. American broadcaster iHeartRadio recently announced an upcoming live show featuring the septet, heralding the band’s full-swing return to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the smartly organized, decadelong K-pop marketing formula, boy band BTS has unexceptionally heralded its new album releases with advance teaser videos and music samples during its past seven-year career. But instead of getting advance SNS hints and teasers about the band’s newest song, fans of BTS were completely [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ global contemporary art initiative, “CONNECT, BTS,” has landed in Berlin, the second destination following London, the band’s management agency said Sunday. Big Hit said, “Rituals of Care,” an exhibition of performances, kicked off at Martin-Gropius-Bau, a modern art museum in the German capital Wednesday as the second leg [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super band BTS on Friday dropped “Black Swan,” a track from the band’s upcoming “Map of the Soul: 7″ album, scheduled for official release next month. The song hit major South Korean and overseas online music streaming services in the evening ahead of the full release of the [...]