SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As BTS conquered the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with “Dynamite,” the achievement has also rekindled a debate on whether global K-pop stars should be offered preferential treatment in terms of military duties so as to avoid a hiatus during the height of their careers. On Tuesday, BTS [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK is poised to potentially make the biggest South Korean girl group album debut next month, with retail pre-orders for its inaugural studio record reaching 800,000 units worldwide, according to the band’s agency Friday. The number of pre-orders for the record titled “The Album” reached over 530,000 copies in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s hard to fathom, but for global K-pop super group BTS, the band’s biggest goal once was to enter not the top 10 or top 40 but just land on the Hot 100, the main singles chart of Billboard for the top 100 popular songs in the United States, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS made history in becoming the first South Korean pop singer or group to clinch the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. But the seven-member boy band is hardly the first Korean artist to set its sights on various charts operated by the popular American music publication. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS picked up four awards at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards held in the United States on Sunday (U.S. time), while putting on its first television performance of its hit single “Dynamite” on the American TV network. The South Korean septet won in the categories of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy group BTS set yet another milestone in South Korea’s music history Saturday, with its new song “Dynamite” grabbing the No. 3 spot on Britain’s Official Top 100 Singles Chart in the first week of its release. No. 3 on the British music chart marks the highest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK said Friday it looks forward to one day standing on stage with Selena Gomez to perform “Ice Cream,” the band’s latest bubble-gum pop single featuring the American pop singer. BLACKPINK at 1 p.m. Friday released “Ice Cream,” the second prerelease single from its inaugural studio [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Big Hit Entertainment, the management agency-label of K-pop giant BTS, said Thursday that the plan for an in-person BTS concert announced for fall has come under uncertainty as sporadic cluster infections across the country continue to pile up. In an announcement on Weverse, the company’s mobile fan community-commerce platform, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is gearing up to drop its second song of this summer, “Ice Cream,” having invited a special guest artist for the track and adopted a new visual style that represents a sharp departure from its previous hit “How You Like That.” The K-pop quartet plans [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The three-letter acronym of global K-pop sensation BTS, which stands for either the Korean expression Bangtan Sonyeondan, meaning Bulletproof Boy Scouts, or Beyond The Scene, may as well stand for Break The Stats, with the band’s new digital single “Dynamite” blowing up international chart and YouTube records. At 1 [...]