Best K-pop nominees (clockwise from top left) BTS, EXO, Monsta X, Red Velvet, (G)I-DLE and TXT (Twitter) MTV has released the list of nominees for 2020 Video Music Awards (VMA) and several K-pop acts are in the running in three categories. The 2020 VMAs will air on Aug. 30 (Aug. 31 in the...
BTS (Twitter) K-pop boy band BTS stirred fans’ emotions when it was announced that they will be releasing a new song in August. Big Hit Entertainment announced that “on August 21, 2020, the new digital single by BTS will be released on Korean and international music streaming...
Max with Suga (Instagram) American singer-songwriter MAX's upcoming album features a collaboration with K-pop boy band BTS member Suga. The 28-year-old multi-platinum artist will drop his album “Colour Vision” on Sept. 18. It has 12 tracks: “Blueberry Eyes" (featuring Suga of BTS),...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, Big Bang, EXO, Shinhwa, Super Junior and IU (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) Last July 22, Bulletin Entertainment revealed the results of the social media analysis on Korean singers and actors in a comprehensive research on Hallyu, or Korean Wave, done by the Korea...
BTS during their online concert (Twitter) K-pop boy band BTS’ “Bang Bang Con: The Live” held last month set a new Guinness World Records title for the most viewers for a music concert live stream. “756,000 fans from over 100 countries tuned in to the online performance on June 14th, which...
Most talked about on social media in the Philippines are (clockwise from top left) BTS, EXO, BLACKPINK, GOT7 and iKON The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has released a comprehensive research on Hallyu, or Korean Wave, tourism market in different countries around the world including surveys of...
Ruru Madrid (Twitter) Actor Ruru Madrid could hardly believe it that the mirror photo of himself in black trended on Twitter. Fans complimented Ruru as Filipino dead ringer or "version" of BTS member Kim Taehyung aka V. Ruru wrote "Boy with luv" as caption to the post, which is a song recorded...
(Clockwise from top left) Monsta X, EXO’s Baekhyun, NCT 127, TXT and IZ*ONE (Twitter) South Korea’s Gaon Music Chart has issued new platinum certifications for album sales and streaming. Boy band EXO member Baekhyun led the album category as his second mini-album “Delight,” released...
BTS and NCT 127 (Facebook/Twitter) 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. The two boy bands are the only K-pop acts listed in Nielsen Music/MRC Data’s 2020 Midyear Report on music consumption and sales in...
Caption (Clockwise from top center) BTS, EXO’s Baekhyun, NCT Dream, NCT 127, Seventeen, IZ*ONE, TWICE and GOT7 (Twitter/Facebook) 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...
(Clockwise from top left) EXO’s Baekhyun, BTS, IZ*ONE, Cravity and Mamamoo’s Solar (Twitter/Facebook) South Korea’s Hanteo Chart, “the world’s one-and-only real-time music chart," has revealed the list of the top-selling K-pop artists for the first half of 2020. Based on album...
BLACKPINK (Instagram) K-pop quartet BLACKPINK’s YouTube-topping new song “How You Like That” has spawned five new Guinness World Record titles. “How You Like That,” released on June 26, became the most viewed music video in the first 24 hours of release with 86.3 million views,...
