SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, said Monday he will release an individual single and its music video this week. The dancer-rapper said on social media that “on the street” will hit music services Friday. It is a lo-fi hip-hop song with a comfortable melody and warm [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, has canceled his request to delay enlistment, the group’s agency said Sunday, in a move to join the country’s mandatory military service. BigHit Music did not provide a specific time frame on when he will join the military, saying only it will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastars BTS will unveil a photo book this month featuring images of member J-Hope, the group’s management agency said Thursday. The photo book, titled “All New Hope,” will come out Feb. 17 as part of the septet’s “Special 8 Photo-Folio” project launched in September to show off the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A behind-the-scenes documentary about the creation of BTS star J-Hope’s solo debut album, “Jack in the Box,” will be released on Feb. 17, his agency said Friday. According to Big Hit Music, the documentary film produced by Hybe follows about 200 days spent by the rapper-dancer to make the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop sensation BTS will perform on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” an annual New Year’s Eve special show by ABC TV, its entertainment agency Big Hit Music said Friday. He will sing three songs, his solo “= (Equal Sign)” (2022), “Chicken Noodle Soup” (2019) and a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of the K-pop superband BTS has performed as the final act of Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza festival, becoming the first Korean artist to headline a major U.S. music event, his agency said Monday. The rapper-dancer closed the four-day festival that drew a total of 105,000 music fans with an [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop superband BTS made a good start high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for this week. The rapper-dancer placed 17th on the Billboard 200 with his first formal solo album, “Jack in the Box,” Billboard said on a social media Tuesday. “Arson,” one of the [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of K-pop supergroup BTS dropped his first formal solo album Friday. “I did my best to make this album in order to show you a new side that you haven’t seen so far and myself having grown more,” the dancer-rapper said in a YouTube video introducing the new [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, the first BTS member to launch a solo venture, entered the U.S. Billboard’s main singles chart with “More,” the chart has said. The song debuted at No. 82 on the Hot 100 chart for this week, Billboard said on social media on Monday (U.S. time). It came out [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — “Jack in the Box,” the upcoming first solo album by BTS’ J-Hope, will contain a total of 10 tracks, the group’s agency Big Hit Music said Friday. According to the list unveiled by the agency, the album will have “Intro,” “More,” “Pandora’s Box,” “Stop,” “=,” “Music Box: Reflection,” “What [...]