SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy band Seventeen, king of youth consolation and empathy among K-pop acts, on Monday returned with a highly anticipated new “special album” that’s all but guaranteed to become the group’s biggest commercial success. The six-track record, the band’s first new release in just four months since “Heng:garae” is titled [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Chen, a member of K-pop boy band EXO, will join the military later this month to fulfill his mandatory military service, his agency said Friday. The 28-year-old, whose legal name is Kim Jong-dae, is set to enlist on Oct. 26, according to SM Entertainment. The agency did not elaborate [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS won the Top Social Artist award at this year’s Billboard Music Awards (BBMA), their fourth consecutive victory in the category. At the award event held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles without spectators on Wednesday (U.S. time), the septet beat Billie Eilish and Ariana [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS became the first-ever musical act in history to top Billboard’s Social 50 chart for 200 weeks in a row this week. Billboard said Tuesday (U.S. time) that BTS ranked No. 1 on this week’s Social 50 chart, reigning the chart for the longest ever streak by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK called its latest project — appearing in the first K-pop documentary produced by Netflix — something that gave “much-needed time” for the quartet that has emerged as one of the most successful acts in the K-pop industry. Netflix is set to release “BLACKPINK: Light [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 million viewers watched an online concert of K-pop superstar BTS held over the weekend, the band’s agency said Monday. Some 993,000 viewers from 191 countries and territories watched “BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E” that was streamed online due to the pandemic, according to Big Hit Entertainment. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BLACKPINK’s first full-length album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard main album chart this week, setting a new record in the history of South Korean girl groups. “At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, BLACKPINK’s debut full-length ‘The Album’ enters with 110,000 equivalent album units earned,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop girl group TWICE’s upcoming full-length album includes collaborations with popular musicians, such as Dua Lipa and Heize, its agency said Sunday. The nine-member group’s second full-length album “Eyes Wide Open” features 13 songs, including “Behind the Mask” that was co-composed by British pop diva Dua Lipa. The lyrics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus has proven to be a longer-than-expected obstacle that has pushed the global music industry out of its comfort zone and into uncharted land where the heat and energy of live gigs no longer exist. But it couldn’t stop BTS and its dedicated fan base ARMY from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop project boy band SuperM has landed at No. 2 on the Billboard’s main albums chart with its first full-length album “Super One.” The U.S.-based publisher reported Sunday (local time) that the SuperM album reached second place on the Billboard 200, which ranks the most popular albums of the [...]