SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS performed its hit song “Mikrokosmos” at a royal palace in Seoul as part of the “BTS Week” special on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” aired Friday (Korea time). In a prerecorded nighttime live performance, the seven-member band sang the song from its 2019 album, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BLACKPINK said Friday it wanted to show its growth as an artist and send out a message of hope and positive energy with its first-ever full-length album. Earlier in the day, the quartet unveiled the album “The Album,” which includes main track “Lovesick Girls” as well as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Marking the fifth anniversary of its debut this month, K-pop girl band TWICE will drop its second full-length album in October, its management agency said Thursday. According to JYP Entertainment, the band will officially release the new album on Oct. 26 and return to the K-pop scene for promotional [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK became the second most-subscribed musician on YouTube on Tuesday, its management agency said. The official YouTube channel of BLACKPINK saw the number of its subscribers surpass 48.8 million, pushing down the American DJ Marshmello to No. 3, according to YG Entertainment. Justin Bieber topped [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS’ upcoming Seoul concert in October will be held virtually only, according to the band’s management agency Friday, canceling the in-person element that was planned together. The Oct. 10-11 Seoul concert, “BTS Map Of The Soul ON:E,” was announced in August as an in-person show with government-mandated [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop project group SuperM said Friday it hopes to deliver positive energy through its inaugural studio album “Super One” to fans during the difficult times of the pandemic. “We’ve felt a lot of pressure from the great achievement we had from our debut album. We’d be satisfied if (fans) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Global K-pop act BTS has said the team’s great internal chemistry was driven by genuine friendship among members and the singers being fully aware they are committed to each other businesswise. “We’re all very good friends. We always talk and communicate with each other. And we know that BTS [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite COVID-19 having bogged down the global entertainment industry at large, the conversation and buzz surrounding K-pop on the social media platform Twitter has increased substantially in volume in the past year, according to data from the company Tuesday. The number of K-pop-related tweets from July 2019 to June [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE debuted at the top of two daily music charts in Japan with its latest compilation album “#TWICE3,” according to its agency Thursday. The record, which repackages the group’s past Korean and Japanese hits, topped Oricon’s Daily Albums chart by scoring 67,808 points, JYP Entertainment said, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop super group BTS delivered a performance of “Dynamite,” its latest smash-hit single, on the popular U.S. talent competition show “America’s Got Talent.” The seven-member band presented a pre-recorded live performance of “Dynamite” on the weekly TV program, now in its 15th season, aired Monday (U.S. time) on American [...]