Fan community app “Weverse” ― created by K-pop juggernaut BTS’s record label Big Hit Entertainment ― has accumulated more than 10 million downloads as of July. It has taken about a year for the app to reach the milestone since its launch in June 2019, the app’s operator beNX, a subsidiary of Big Hit, said...Read More
SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, two of South Korea’s leading K-pop labels and agencies, have announced the launch of a joint company for virtual concerts. The company, Beyond Live Corp. (BLC), will operate to expand the paid Beyond Live online concert series, created earlier this year between SM and Naver, South Korea’s leading web portal...Read More
Words from the song “Run” by K-pop group BTS have been featured on an iconic signboard in downtown Seoul. The new billboard on the exterior of the Kyobo Building in the Gwanghwamun square, central Seoul, reads, “Run, run, run again. It’s OK if you fall. Run, run, run again. It’s OK to get hurt” —...Read More
Park Jin-young, founder and producer of JYP Entertainment, is poised to release a single “When We Disco” featuring K-pop diva Sunmi on Aug. 12, according to JYP. The record label took to its official Twitter on Monday to float a teaser photo of the two dancing under glaring lights. “When We Disco” is a retro-flavored...Read More
K-pop giant BTS on Monday announced that its new single album set to drop later this month is titled “Dynamite.” The group announced the name of the upcoming English-language single through a teaser image shared on the group’s social media. The K-pop septet announced last week that the new song will be released on Aug....Read More
‘2020 MTV VMA’ announced the award categories and candidates through the official website of MTV on July 30 (local time). (G)I-DLE was nominated for the BEST K-POP category award with the title song ‘Oh my god’ of the third mini album ‘I trust’ released in April. EXO’s ‘Obsession’, (G)I-DLE’s ‘Oh my god’, Red Velvet’s ‘Psycho’,...Read More
TREASURE, a soon-to-debut boy band represented by YG Entertainment, unveiled a tracklist for its first album “THE FIRST STEP: CHAPTER ONE” on Thursday. The album includes the lead single “BOY” and the B-side “COME TO ME,” according to the list disclosed on YG’s official blog. “Members Choi Hyun-suk, Yoshi, and Haruto made a rap for...Read More
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 to be the first full-length album...Read More
A bimonthly magazine dedicated to all things related to K-pop giant BTS has been launched in Italy, as a reflection of the band’s growing popularity, according to the publisher Monday. Italian publishing house Sprea S.p.A launched the magazine, BTS, last month, with the full-color launch edition consisting of some 80 pages featuring photos and articles...Read More
K-pop behemoth BTS is poised to release a new digital single in English, Aug. 21. “We were initially set to drop an album later this year, but decided to release a single in advance for you,” BTS frontman RM told fans during BTS’ radio broadcast on Naver’s V Live, Sunday. “We wanted to invigorate you,...Read More
