SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK rewrote the history of K-pop girl groups by becoming the first among them to claim No. 1 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with its second studio album, “Born Pink,” on Monday. This proved that the band has become beloved artists of global music fans, six years [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop dance songs, which have served as a pillar of K-pop over the past several years, are becoming shorter and shorter. According to Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, four out of five dance numbers included on the top 10 digital comprehensive chart list during the January to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop agencies are struggling to find available concert halls amid an industry-wide recovery from the pandemic. Industry sources said that major concert venues like the Jamsil Sports Complex and Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul have been fully booked until the end of this year. “Baseball stadiums rarely see reservations [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Monthly sales of K-pop albums surpassed a combined 10 million copies for the first time last month thanks to the continued expansion of the global fandom of idol groups, a market tracker said Monday. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop stars are making inroads in Latin America. Boy band T1419 released a new song in Spanish titled “When the Sun Goes Down” last month, starting its offensive in the Latin American market. Girl group Momoland, from the same agency as T1419, joined hands with well-known singer-songwriter Natti Natasha [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop industry is bracing for a heated chart competition as some of the top girl groups are ready to throw their hats in the ring with new albums this month. Girls’ Generation, the longest-running K-pop girl group, was the first to enter the ring. The octet made a [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s common practice for some K-pop fans to mass-purchase K-pop albums but throw most away after removing only photo cards or invitation cards for fan meetings. Since they throw the CDs away, the excess copies end up becoming plastic waste. The number of K-pop CD albums sold in the [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of K-pop albums have once again renewed their all-time-high level in the first half of this year, with the music continuing to be in its heyday, a local market tracker said. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, on Sunday, [...]
WASHINGTON, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Washington is offering a special program to those in the U.S. to learn how to sing and dance to K-pop music. The K-Pop Academy DC will offer dance and vocal training to those who wish to learn and experience the global phenomenon of K-pop music. [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign K-pop fans are voluntarily coming up with addictive dance moves to start a series of online challenges. An Indonesian influencer came up with an easy dance move for K-pop rookie TREASURE’s song “DARARI,” which started a wave of “DARARI challenges” on TikTok worldwide. The song was used 730,000 [...]