SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean pop music market saw sharp increases in the consumption of digital music through streaming and the sales of physical albums in 2017, a market tracker said Friday. Twelve songs, up from only two in the previous year, streamed more than 100 million times, indicating a major shift [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gaon Chart will start counting USBs containing songs as albums next year to adapt to the fast changing music industry, the chart operator said Tuesday. The Korea Music Content Industry Association said it will change its policy for the Gaon Chart to expand the scope of “a music [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Popular singer G-Dragon on Thursday protested a local industry association’s recent judgment that his latest release made in USB format cannot be recognized as a music album. In a post on his Instagram, which started with “What’s The Problem?,” the artist wrote, “Is it that simple that an artist’s [...]