SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Choi Yena, a K-pop soloist who was a member of the now-disbanded project girl group IZ*ONE, freed herself of the bubbly and bright image from her previous albums with the release of her first single, “Love War,” on Monday. She made a 180-degree turn to appear as a dark [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – IZ*ONE, a project girl group that debuted through a reality audition TV show, will disband next month as planned. “IZ*ONE’s project will wrap up in April as planned,” said music channel Mnet that had aired the series as well as the act’s management agencies. Swing Entertainment and Off the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop act IZ*ONE will release a new album next month, its management agency said Monday, amid a lingering controversy over vote-rigging in the audition program that it debuted through. The band will drop its fourth EP, “One-reeler/Act Ⅳ” on Dec. 7, Off the Record said. The album, the first [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — IZ*ONE has shattered a first-week sales record for albums by girl groups of all time with its new album, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The group’s first full-length album “Bloom*Iz” sold some 184,000 copies within the first day of its release Monday at 6 p.m., Off the Record [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Resuming its high-profile music career, girl band IZ*ONE will release a new album, “Bloom*Iz,” this month, its management agency said Monday. The new album, set for release on Feb. 17, is the 12-member girl group’s first full-length album, marking the resumption of the band’s activities after a three-month hiatus. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band IZ*ONE will return to the music scene next month, resuming its high-profile music career that was put on hold amid a vote-rigging scandal involving the band’s native audition show last year. “Mnet and the management agencies of IZ*ONE members decided to resume their activities in respect [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ ENM, the operator of K-pop-oriented music channel Mnet, said Monday it will provide all necessary support for K-pop bands IZ*ONE and X1′s resumption of their music careers, issuing an apology for the vote-fixing scandal of its high-profile idol competition show. “We will provide every support possible … so [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A fall from grace by “Produce 101,” South Korea’s most sensational idol audition show to date, is derailing the burgeoning K-pop careers of the show’s winners. Last week, police put in custody An Joon-young, the director of the Mnet cable show, and the program’s chief producer over suspicions of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl band IZ*ONE has postponed the release of its new album amid snowballing vote-rigging allegations at “Produce 48,” a popular K-pop competition show. “Off the Record, the management agency of IZ*ONE, has decided to delay the release of the group’s first full-length album, originally scheduled for Nov. 11, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — IZ*ONE, a project girl group formed through the idol competition show series “Produce,” sold more than 130,000 copies of its latest album titled “HEART*IZ” in the first week of its sales, breaking a previous record set by TWICE. “IZ*ONE’s ‘HEART*IZ’ sold 132,109 copies during the April 1-7 period. It [...]