HYBE, the parent company of K-pop acts BTS, Seventeen, TXT, ENHYPEN and NewJeans, is now officially the single largest shareholder in SM Entertainment, the agency that manages artists like EXO, NCT, Aespa, Red Velvet, Girls’ Generation, Super Junior and TVXQ. (Clockwise from top) BTS, EXO,...
ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo grabbed first place in the brand reputation rankings for individual members of K-pop boy bands for February 2023. The Korea Corporate Research Institute released the brand reputation index based on the analysis of 117.19 million brand big data covering 703 members of K-pop...
The Circle Chart Music Awards 2022 ceremony was held on Feb. 18 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul. BTS won five awards, the most by any K-pop artist. They won Artist of the Year (digital music) in June 2022 for "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)"; Artist of the Year (physical album) in the third...
Donations are pouring in from Korean celebrities for the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey (Türkiye) and Syria on Feb. 6 resulting in the death of more than 40,000 people. According to the Korean Committee for UNICEF, as of Feb. 17, the amount publicly donated by Korean stars...
K-pop boy band NCT Dream announced new dates and cities for their new concert tour. On Feb. 15, NCT Dream revealed they will be holding their “The Dream Show 2: In A Dream” tour and one of the stops will be Manila. NCT Dream at their “The Dream Show” concert in Manila in February 2020...
The 30th Anniversary Hanteo Music Awards 2022 held its second day of ceremony at Jamsil Arena on Feb. 11. Organizers handed out the “daesang” (grand prizes) on the second day. BTS won two grand prizes: Best Artist and Best Song. According to the awards’ website, the Best Artist award is given...
The first day of the 30th anniversary Hanteo Music Awards 2022 was held at Jamsil Arena in Seoul on Feb. 10. It is based on the Hanteo Chart, which started its service in 1993, and those eligible were artists who released albums and digital music from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022. (Clockwise from top...
HYBE, the parent Korean entertainment company of K-pop stars BTS, Seventeen, ENHYPEN and Tomorrow X Together, will become the largest shareholder of SM Entertainment, which manages EXO, NCT and Aespa. In a financial disclosure filed on Feb. 10, HYBE announced that it has entered into a stock...
Is Lucas, a member of K-pop boy band NCT and its subunit WayV, and supergroup SuperM, going to make his comeback soon? In August 2021, Lucas suspended his activities and apologized after a woman who said she was his former girlfriend accused him of gaslighting and mooching off from her. SM...
K-pop group Tomorrow X Together (TXT) reached another milestone with their new mini-album “The Name Chapter: Temptation.” TXT released their fifth mini-album on Jan. 27 and in six days, they reached two million copies in sales. K-pop group Tomorrow X Together (Big Hit Music) According to...
K-pop group NCT 127’s repackaged album “Ay-Yo” has sold nearly 344,000 copies on the first day of release. On Jan. 30, NCT 127 dropped “Ay-Yo,” a repacked version of their fourth studio album “2 Baddies,” which was originally released on Sept. 16 last year. NCT 127 (Twitter) NCT 127...
The 32nd Seoul Music Awards (SMA) ceremony was held on Jan. 19 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul. K-pop boy band NCT Dream emerged as the biggest winner by taking home the “daesang” or grand prize. (Clockwise from top right) NCT Dream, IVE and BTS (Twitter, Big Hit Music) This was the first time for...
