SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — V, a member of K-pop sensation BTS, will release a seasonal duet with Korean ballad singer Park Hyo-shin next week, the group’s agency announced Friday. The digital single, “Winter Ahead (with Park Hyo Shin),” will drop at 2 p.m. next Friday, BigHit Music said on the K-pop fan platform [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – V of the K-pop boy group BTS will release a duet with legendary American pop singer Bing Crosby (1903-1977) next month, his agency said Thursday. The collaboration will be a reimagined rendition of “White Christmas,” one of Crosby’s most beloved songs and a timeless holiday classic, BigHit Music said, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Photos of K-pop supergroup BTS member V in the gear of a counter-terrorism unit have been unveiled, a Facebook page on the South Korean military showed Thursday. Images of V wearing pitch black Special Duty Team (SDT) attire were released Wednesday on the page, which serves as an anonymous [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — V, a member of K-pop megaband BTS, has scored another hit on the Billboard Hot 100 main singles chart despite serving in the military. His latest digital single, “FRI(END)S,” debuted at No. 65 on this week’s chart, unveiled Tuesday (U.S. time). It marks V’s fourth entry on the chart [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ V will release his new English song ‘FRI(END)S’ next Friday, Big Hit Music said Monday. The pop soul song is the artist’s first solo music since “Layover,” his debut solo album released in September. The company said V had prepared it before he started his mandatory military service [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — RM and V of K-pop supergroup BTS will begin their mandatory military service Monday. When two more members — Jimin and Jungkook — enlist Tuesday, all seven members of the band will be carrying out their military duty. Three older band members are already in service, with Jin, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ V and BLACKPINK’s Jennie, who were rumored to have been dating, recently broke up, music industry sources said Wednesday. The two K-pop stars have been caught up in rumors that they are in a romantic relationship after an online post claimed they spent time together on South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS V’s latest single “Slow Dancing” debuted at No. 51 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to the latest chart released Wednesday. “Slow Dancing” is the lead track off his first solo album “Layover,” released on Sept. 8. It marks V’s third entry on the chart with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — V of K-pop supergroup BTS entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 2 with “Layover,” his first solo album, Billboard has said. “Layover” came in second behind Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album, “Guts,” in this week’s chart, Billboard said in a chart preview released Sunday (U.S. local time). This feat [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The debut solo album by V, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, has set the biggest first-week sales record for an album by a K-pop soloist with 2.1 million copies sold, data showed Friday. According to the data from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of physical album sales, [...]