Category: Music
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P1-M raised in concert for students, teachers
The live fundraising concert “At Home with PLDT: No Learner Left Behind” raised over million-peso worth of funds to help address the challenges of many students, teachers, and schools nationwide as they adapt to the new normal in education and online distance learning.
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One Direction to mark 10 years with anniversary website
One Direction is celebrating their 10th anniversary by debuting a website charting the group's history.
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EXO-SC’s Sehun, Chanyeol sell 300,000 copies of ‘1 Billion Views’ album in 2 days
EXO-SC, a unit of K-pop boy band EXO composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, made their comeback and in just two days, they sold more than 300,000 copies of their new album.
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iKON’s Ju-ne, Jinhwan injured in car accident
K-pop boy band iKON members Ju-ne and Jinhwan suffered injuries when their vehicle hit a retaining wall on a national highway in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
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Korea’s Gaon Music Chart reveals new platinum certifications, top-selling albums for 2020
South Korea’s Gaon Music Chart has issued new platinum certifications for album sales and streaming.
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Aging like fine wine
Paul Weller recently released the album “On Sunset.” The 62-year-old musical chameleon, best known for his seminal punk pop band The Jam, his new wave duo The Style Council, and countless solo work that covers rock, soul, R&B and electronic music (to name a few), was spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. With his tour discontinued, he focused on putting out new music now heard here, his 15th offering.
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Musical revue champions love for nature, country
Fresh from the success of its first ever digital presentation of an all-original musical revue billed “Songs for A Changed World: COVID and Climate Change,” PLDT Home, in support of Gabay Kalikasan, has assembled a formidable cast of artists for musical event “Tatsulok: A Trilogy for Change” tonight at 8.
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PLDT Home launches free virtual benefit concert for students and teachers
PLDT Home launches a free virtual concert on July 14, 2020 themed “At Home with PLDT: No Learner Left Behind” for the benefit of students, teachers, and schools in partnership with PLDT-Smart Foundation. Top billed by the country’s music icons and artists, the initiative aims to raise funds to address the needs and challenges of Filipinos as they face the new normal in digital learning.
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Nielsen Music midyear report: BTS, NCT 127 land in top 10 best-selling albums in US
K-pop idol groups BTS and NCT 127 made it to the top 10 best-selling albums lists in the US for the first half of the year.
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Red Velvet’s Irene-Seulgi ‘Monster’ album sells 110,000 copies in 4 days
The debut album of K-pop girl group Red Velvet’s first unit composed of Irene and Seulgi sold more than 110,000 copies in four days.
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Ringo Starr on turning 80 and what he learned from fatherhood
Los Angeles — It is always a thrill to meet or interview a musical icon, especially if they are former Beatles.
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Pinoy music in the new normal: More inclusive, diverse
If there’s one good thing about the quarantine is that it has given many musicians, including Ryan Cayabyab and Noel Cabangon, more time to express artistry.
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Keiko Necesario releases ‘Right Next To You’
Keiko Necesario has a new single recorded with UK-based Chasing Fantasia.
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Exclusive access to performances by RWM artists streamed on demand
I miss going out (wow, lakas maka-party girl!). Since the country was put under quarantine in March, I’ve rarely gone outside and most of my errands are either for essentials or for work, never for leisure. (Bawal muna lumandi-landi!)
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Top 10 best-selling K-pop albums in first half of 2020 revealed
After naming the topnotchers in album sales by category, Korea’s Hanteo Chart has unveiled the overall top 10 best-selling K-pop albums for the first half of 2020.
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‘Monster’ MV of Red Velvet creates stir
SM Entertainment has finally dropped the music video for Red Velvet’s Irene and Seulgi’s unit single, “Monster,” on Tuesday after delaying its release.
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Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91
Ennio Morricone, one of the world's best-known and most prolific composers of film scores notably for spaghetti westerns, died in Rome on Monday at the age of 91.
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‘Parasite’ stars, crew invited to join Oscars Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organizes the yearly Oscars, has invited the cast and crew of the critically-acclaimed Korean film “Parasite” to join the organization.