K-pop girl group TWICE finished first on a Japanese weekly album chart with its latest repackaged album “#TWICE3,” its management agency said Tuesday. Released last Wednesday, the compilation of the group’s past Korean and Japanese hits scored 109,000 points to top the Oricon Daily Albums chart in its first week of release, according to JYP...Read More
K-pop band Monsta X will star in an online video series aimed at promoting treasured Korean cultural heritage overseas, according to cultural heritage authorities Wednesday. The YouTube series, titled “Korean Heritage Travelog,” will premiere next Tuesday and will feature the six-member K-pop group alongside Seo Kyoung-duk, a liberal arts professor at Sungshin Women’s University and...Read More
K-pop superstars BTS on Tuesday garnered nominations in two categories — Top Duo/Group and Top Social Artist — for the 2020 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) set for next month, Billboard announced Tuesday. BTS will compete with Dan + Shay, Jonas Brothers, Maroon 5 and Panic! At The Disco at this year’s BBMAs scheduled for Oct....Read More
As more and more K-pop groups create backstories and universes of their own, FNC Entertainment’s newest K-pop group, P1Harmony, is debuting in a sci-fi movie starring the six band members. The 99-minute movie, “P1H: The Beginning of a New World,” by director Yoon Hong-seung, who also goes by “Director Chang,” shows the P1Harmony universe and...Read More
Twitter Korea on Tuesday released a new report, “#KpopTwitter 2020 World Map,” which looks back on K-pop’s rapid growth on the platform over the past decade. According to the report, K-pop-related content and conversations on Twitter increased monumentally from 2010 to 2020, spanning first-generation acts like Super Junior, Big Bang and Girls’ Generation as well...Read More
K-pop super group BTS will deliver performances on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in the United States for a full week, the group’s management agency said Wednesday. Under the show’s weeklong special titled “BTS Week,” the seven-member boy band will showcase different music performances each night for five days starting next Monday, Big...Read More
K-pop superstar BTS will deliver a special message at the 75th United Nations General Assembly this week, returning to the annual U.N. gathering as a speaker in two years, according to UNICEF’s South Korean committee Tuesday. According to the Korean Committee for UNICEF, BTS’ “message of hope” will be broadcast at 9 a.m. Wednesday (US...Read More
South Korean boy band BTS’ new single, “Dynamite,” again finished second on Billboard’s main singles chart, spending its fourth week in the top two spots of the chart, Billboard reported Monday. “BTS’ “Dynamite” ranks No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a second week after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No....Read More
K-pop boy band BTS on Monday appeared on the “Tiny Desk Concert” show on National Public Radio (NPR), presenting a live performance of its lastest single “Dynamite” and other past hits. The seven-member boy band presented a prerecorded live performance of its new disco-pop single, along with two other songs ― “Save Me” and “Spring...Read More
With a mere estimate of the market value of Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind BTS, reaching nearly 4.6 trillion won ($3.97 billion) after listing, eyes are on the seven-member boy band that generates most of the company’s revenue. The K-pop agency is scheduled to make its market debut on South Korea’s main bourse, Kospi,...Read More
