SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Enhypen’s latest repackage album sold more than 500,0000 copies in the first week of its release, the group’s management agency said Tuesday. “Dimension: Answer,” a repackaged version of the group’s first full-length album “Dimension: Dilemma” released in October, has sold 514,291 copies for a week from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop album market has been experiencing an unprecedented boom but the sales of digital music have been sluggish amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the year-end data released by Korea’s album sales tracker Gaon Chart on Wednesday, the nation’s top 400 albums sold 57 million copies in and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Only less than two weeks have passed since the start of the New Year, but the K-pop scene is already busy with news of rookie girl groups getting global attention or preparing for their official debuts. One of the hottest is Ive, the Starship Entertainment-managed group that made its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Enhypen returned with a repackage album Monday after spending a successful year as a rookie group with less than two years since its debut. Released in October last year as the first part of the group’s new “Dimension” album series, the group’s first full album, “Dimension: Dilemma,” has since [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a leading K-pop agency, formed a new supergroup Monday with seven of its top female artists. GOT the beat consists of diva BoA; Taeyeon and Hyoyeon of Girls’ Generation; Seulgi and Wendy of Red Velvet and Karina and Winter of aespa. It is the first group formed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop agencies are jumping into the non-fungible token (NFT) market as it rises as the new ‘blue chip’ in the entertainment industry. South Korean indie band Glen Check joined hands with music NFT company 3PM to issue 1,111 NFTs based on the theme of ‘Seven Deadly Sins’. First off, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop fan club in Thailand visited slums to share end-of-year compassion with the poor. Some 30 members of the BTS and So Ji-sub fan clubs visited Khlong Toei, a downtown slum in Bangkok last Friday. They were the winners of the K-pop cover dance festival held by the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — New K-pop girl group Ive has recorded the most first-week sales of any debut album by girl groups in South Korea ever, the group’s agency said Friday. The six-piece group’s first single album “Eleven,” released on Dec. 1, sold 152,229 copies in the first week of its release, Starship [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group Monsta X released a new English-language album Friday for its international fans, the group’s management agency said. The full-length album titled “The Dreaming” hit various music services at midnight, Starship Entertainment said. It is the group’s second English album after “All Above Luv” released in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe, home to famous K-pop groups such as BTS, Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together (TXT) and Enhypen, said Tuesday it will throw a joint concert of its artists to celebrate the end of the year, though BTS will be absent from the event. The concert, titled “2022 Weverse Con (New [...]