SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming subscription service, announced Wednesday the launch of a program to support rising Korean hip-hop artists. Kicking off and as part of the “K-hip-hop Rookies” program, five hip-hop rookies who took part in the South Korean TV rap competition show “Show Me The Money [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — “Hype Boy,” one of the debut singles by newbie girl group NewJeans, has garnered 100 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The song hit 100,704,055 streams as of Sunday, less than 100 days after its release in August, ADOR said. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has topped world’s largest music streaming service Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart with its latest single, “Shut Down,” for two days in a row, the group’s agency said Monday. The main track off the group’s second full-length album, “Born Pink,” bagged its second consecutive No. [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform, the group’s agency YG Entertainment said Monday. The achievement came about 10 months after the song passed 500 million, according to the agency. BLACKPINK is now the only K-pop [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean group BTS was the third most-streamed global artist on Spotify, one of the world’s biggest players of music streaming, this year, data from the service showed Thursday. According to the Spotify Wrapped 2021 data, BTS ranked third after Puerto Rican vocalist Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it will offer Spotify to its mobile users for up to six months in a move expected to expand the music streaming service’s presence in the country. The telecom operator said subscribers to its 4G LTE and 5G [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BLACKPINK became the first girl group worldwide to garner 20 million followers on the music streaming giant Spotify, its management agency said Tuesday. The four-piece K-pop act set the record Monday (U.S. time), about 15 months after it pushed down Fifth Harmony to No. 2 on the [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean music distributor Kakao Entertainment Corp. and global music streaming giant Spotify Technology SA said Thursday they have reached an agreement on global music licensing after the two companies failed to renew an existing deal last month, resulting in a partial K-pop blackout. The new deal comes [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Last weekend, global K-pop fans on Spotify faced a blackout of hundreds of songs by popular artists, including Zico, Mamamoo and IU, after the Swedish audio giant’s licensing agreement with South Korea’s top music distributor Kakao M Corp. came to an end. While some music has since been restored [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Spotify Technology SA on Monday suspended the streaming service of K-pop tracks licensed by Kakao M on its global platform as their license deal has expired, officials said. The move has prevented global K-pop fans from listening to songs of major South Korean artists, including IU [...]