K-pop boy bands Stray Kids and NCT Dream are ending the year by ranking in the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart. Billboard released the Dec. 31-dated Hot Trending Songs chart which tracks “global music-related trends and conversations in real-time across Twitter, viewable over...
The 2022 Asia Artist Awards (AAA) ceremony was held on Dec. 13 in Nagoya, Japan, which saw a smorgasbord of prizes given away to singers and actors. The AAA was divided into two categories: actor and singer. (Clockwise from top left) Stray Kids, Seventeen, NewJeans, Kim Seon-ho, Lim Young-woong,...
RM, leader of Grammy-nominated K-pop group BTS, debuted on top of Billboard’s Hot Trending Songs chart with three others in the top 10. He released his first studio album “Indigo” on Dec. 2 containing 10 tracks that saw him collaborating with other artists including Epik High’s Tablo and...
K-pop powerhouse BTS bagged three grand prizes (“daesang”), the highest accolade, at the 2022 MAMA Awards held on Nov. 29 and 30 at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan. BTS won the Yogibo Artist of the Year, Yogibo Album of the Year for “Proof” and Yogibo Worldwide Icon of the Year at the 2022...
A new study has revealed that there is an “alarmingly high prevalence of insufficient physical activity” among Filipino children and adolescents, with only 15.4 percent meeting the global physical activity recommendation. This is according to the Youth Physical Activity Report Cards released by...
Three members of K-pop boy band Stray Kids have tested positive for Covid-19 again with South Korea recording more than 50,000 new cases in one day. In an announcement, JYP Entertainment, Stray Kids’ agency, said that members Lee Know, Han and Seungmin got Covid-19. Stray Kids (Twitter)...
People from the Korean entertainment industry voted to pick the singer of the year and song of the year for 2022. In celebration of its 18th anniversary, Korean media outlet Joy News 24 conducted a survey from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 among 200 entertainment industry workers including employees of...
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) will be held on Aug. 28 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Ahead of the awards shows, VegasInsider.com collected all of the records that could be potentially broken at this year’s ceremony. (Clockwise from top left) BTS, Seventeen, BLACKPINK, ITZY,...
K-pop group The Boyz grabbed the No. 1 spot on the weekly album chart in Korea with their latest release. Data from Korea’s Hanteo Chart showed that The Boyz’s new album “Be Aware” topped the weekly physical album chart with 382,884 copies sold and a physical record index of 448,865. Hanteo...
Rookie K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the weekly physical album chart in Korea two weeks after their official debut. Korea’s Hanteo Chart announced that NewJeans’ debut album “New Jeans,” which was released on Aug. 1, sold 311,271 copies and garnered a physical record index of 368,387.34...
K-pop artists secured nominations at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, which will be held on Aug. 28 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. BTS, Seventeen, BLACKPINK, BLACKPINK’s Lisa, ITZY, Stray Kids and TWICE have been nominated in different categories this year. (Clockwise from top left)...
What are the best-selling K-pop albums in the first half of 2022? South Korea’s Circle Chart, formerly Gaon Music Chart, has released the rankings of the top-selling albums in South Korea in the first half of the year. In a report, Circle Chart revealed that there were 34.94 million...
