Three years after their first outing in Manila, K-pop group ITZY returned to the Philippines with a two-night concert that drew loud cheers from Filipino fans. ITZY held their “Checkmate: The 1st World Tour” in Manila on Jan. 14 and 15 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. ITZY at their press event at...
K-pop boy band NCT Dream’s new mini-album topped the weekly album chart in South Korea with nearly 1.6 million copies sold. Hanteo Chart released the physical album chart for Dec. 19 to 25, which showed NCT Dream grabbing the No. 1 spot. NCT Dream (top) and BTS (Twitter, Big Hit Music) NCT...
TikTok Korea released its year-ender for 2022, naming the most viewed artists, top songs and artists with the most new followers on the platform for the year. "We’re honored to celebrate our global community who shaped this year's trends, shared new ideas, learned from one another, and turned...
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 boy bands Seventeen and ENHYPEN, and girl group Aespa grabbed the first three places in the monthly physical album chart in South Korea. The three idol groups sold at least one million copies of their new albums in July, according to Hanteo Chart. In ranking albums, Hanteo Chart now uses the...
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)...
K-pop boy band Seventeen sold more than one million copies of their repackaged album in one week and grabbed first place on the weekly chart in South Korea. Seventeen released “Sector 17” on July 18, the repackaged version of their fourth studio album “Face the Sun,” which came out on May...
Kim Chiu's dance cover of "Swipe" came out late last year. But it went viral recently having been edited side by side with that of ITZY's Yuna. https://www.tiktok.com/@itzyofficial/video/7075265129683651842 Kim was ecstatic. On Instagram, she wrote: "LIKE OMG!!!!!! (face screaming in fear and...
Music streaming platform Spotify has relaunched its popular K-pop playlist. Its playlist K-pop Daebak is now known as K-Pop ON! (온) . According to Spotify, K-pop has experienced a 230 percent growth in listening and with nearly eight billion monthly streams globally. In the last 90 days, Spotify...
K-pop girl group ITZY’s Ryujin and Super Junior’s Ryeowook have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as at least 157 Korean stars have been diagnosed with it since last month. “On the afternoon of the 27th , Ryujin from ITZY was confirmed to have COVID-19. Previously on the...
