K-pop girl group Red Velvet’s new album has topped the weekly album charts in Korea and shattered their own first-week sales record. Red Velvet released their seventh mini-album “The ReVe Festival 2022-Feel My Rhythm” on March 21. According to Korea’s Hanteo Chart, “The ReVe Festival...
K-pop boy band finally made their comeback on March 22 with the release of their new album “Liberty: In Our Cosmos.” The album was originally scheduled to be released on Feb. 22 but all nine members of Cravity tested positive for Covid-19 between Feb. 12 and 20, resulting in the postponement of...
All the nine members of K-pop boy band Cravity now have coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as South Korea recorded more than 100,000 new daily cases on Feb. 20 due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. On Feb. 20, Starship Entertainment announced that Cravity member Woobin tested positive for...
Seven members of a K-pop boy band Cravity and four of K-pop group BLANK2Y tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in one day to bring the total number of infected Korean stars to at least 95 since Jan. 19. According to agency Starship Entertainment on Feb. 12, the group members who have...
A woman is being investigated for sexually harassing a member of a K-pop boy band after she gained entry into the building of his agency. The Gangnam Police arrested the woman for touching the body of a member of K-pop boy band Cravity on Oct. 3 inside the Starship Entertainment headquarters in...
(Clockwise from top left) TXT, Red Velvet, CIX and Cravity (Twitter) K-pop groups TXT, Red Velvet, CIX, Cravity and The Boyz topped the weekly physical album chart in Korea. According to Hanteo Chart, TXT’s repackaged album “The Chaos Chapter: Fight or Escape” sold 458,994 copies to grab...
NCT (Twitter) K-pop boy band NCT grabbed first place on the monthly physical album chart in January with “Resonance Pt. 2.” According to South Korea’s Hanteo Chart, NCT’s “Resonance Pt. 2” Departure version sold 268,788 copies for the month of January to place first on the chart. The...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, BLACKPINK, Seventeen, Oh My Girl, StayC, Aespa, Cravity and Treasure (Twitter, Instagram, Mnet Asian Music Awards) Korean music industry experts have voted to name the best singers, rookies and events of 2020. News outlet News1 held a year-end survey among 22 experts...
K-pop solo artist Kang Daniel and rookie boy band Treasure copped the first two places in the monthly album chart for August. Kang Daniel, former center of boy band Wanna One, released “Magenta” on Aug. 3, the second in his color trilogy album after “Cyan” in March. According to...
(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...
