SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s K-pop physical album sales are at the brink of reaching the 80 million milestone for 2022, thanks to the robust performance of boy band BTS and popular girl groups, a major music chart revealed Saturday. The annual physical sales of the top 400 K-pop albums had stood [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — With the worldwide popularity of K-pop music, consumption of foreign pop has decreased. Consumption of foreign pop music in South Korea, as opposed to K-pop, stood at no more than 22 percent each month from January to September this year, according to Circle Chart, the country’s benchmark music chart. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The American Music Awards (AMAs) has created a category for K-pop artists for the first time among the three major U.S. music awards. Announcing the nominations for the 2022 AMAs on Thursday (U.S. time), the event’s organizers introduced Favorite K-pop Artist as one of the six categories created or [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With K-pop enjoying popularity throughout the world, the fan base of girl groups is becoming more diverse in nationality. India had the largest share at 10 percent of YouTube views of BLACKPINK, followed by Thailand at 8.4 percent, Indonesia at 6.9 percent and the Philippines at 5.8 percent, according [...]
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 [...]