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) — K-pop superstar BTS teased its upcoming new album “BE” on Thursday (Korean time), appearing on the “BTS Week” special on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The show’s weeklong series running for five days through Friday is designed to showcase different music performances of the seven-member band each [...]
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. 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. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The themes and messages on the upcoming new album by BTS will revolve around major issues faced by the global community, the group hinted Monday. “(The album) will include various genres of songs, so it’s hard to generalize the album as being of such and such genre,” BTS leader [...]
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, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop quartet BLACKPINK will drop its first full studio album in October, the group’s management agency said Tuesday. On its official blog, YG Entertainment posted an album teaser poster titled “The Album,” with a pink tiara in the middle and the date “2020.10.02″ at the bottom. It is expected [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group GFriend made a comeback on Monday with its ninth EP album “Song of the Sirens,” with the members becoming more involved in the process of producing an album than ever before. “I regularly jot down memos and ideas (for music), as I’ve always had an interest [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s natural for youth to torment themselves at life’s pivotal moments, like potentially life-changing career decisions, all the way to the most mundane choices, such as what to have for dinner. For today’s youth, who face constant uncertainties, K-pop boy band Seventeen on Monday presented a dose of comfort [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop act Monsta X on Tuesday thanked fans for helping them achieve a career-changing success in the United States earlier this year. “All we have are happy memories when looking back. Our hearts swell up with emotions,” Monsta X rapper I.M, whose real name is Im Chang-kyun, said during [...]