Music streaming platform Spotify launched K-Pop ON! Track, a site dedicated to all things K-pop to bring fans closer to the music they love and the artists who create it. K-Pop ON! Track will provide anyone from the K-pop curious to bonafide K-pop Stans a home base for all of Spotify’s...
K-pop boy band NCT 127 member Jungwoo has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning to South Korea from Japan. NCT 127 held their “Neo City: Japan–The Link” concert at Tokyo Dome on May 28 and 29. NCT 127 member Jungwoo (Instagram) SM Entertainment, the group’s agency, announced that...
K-pop boy band Treasure, rookie group NMIXX, STAYC, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and BTOB topped the monthly album chart in South Korea for the month of February 2022. Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the ranking of the best-selling physical albums from Feb. 1 to 28. (Clockwise from top left)...
K-pop superstars BTS emerged as the biggest winner at the 11th Gaon Chart Music Awards ceremony held on Jan. 27. The music awards show recognized top albums, digital music and artists covering the period December 2020 to November 2021. BTS won eight awards. They bagged Artist of the Year (digital...
The 31st High1 Seoul Music Awards (SMA) ceremony was held on Jan. 23 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to honor outstanding artists who released music in 2021. K-pop boy band NCT 127 emerged as the biggest winner of the night, taking home the “daesang” or grand prize. (Clockwise from top left)...
A total of 57.09 million physical copies of K-pop albums were sold in 2021, according to Korea’s Gaon Music Chart. The total is an increase of 15.38 million albums, or 37 percent, compared to 41.7 million copies of K-pop albums sold in 2020. The total physical album sales in 2021 were based on...
K-pop superstars BTS, NCT, EXO, Seventeen and TWICE emerged as the top five K-pop artists with the highest album sales in the last 11 years from 2011 to 2021. This is based on the annual cumulative album sales data released by Gaon Music Chart covering the period January 2011 to November 2021,...
The 36th Golden Disc Awards (GDA) ceremony was held on Jan. 8 at the Seoul Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to honor outstanding artists. BTS and IU emerged as the biggest winners of the night. BTS won the disc “daesang” (grand prize) for Album of the Year for “BE” and IU took home the digital...
Gaon Music Chart has revealed the best-selling albums in Korea in 2021 based on sales In the 2021 Album Chart (based on total shipments minus returns), BTS’ “Butter” topped the tally with 2.99 million copies. NCT 127’s “Sticker” placed second with 2.42 million copies followed by NCT...
Hanteo Music Awards 2021, given by Korea’s Hanteo Chart, announced the 10 K-pop artists with the highest initial “chodong,” or first week, sales in Korea in 2021. It announced the winners of the Initial Chodong Record Award “given to the artists who recorded top 10 in initial chodong album...
K-pop groups will embark on tours and concerts, and overseas performances as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions have been eased owing to decreasing number of cases and vaccination rollouts in many countries including the US. These include BTS, NCT 127, TWICE, ATEEZ, Monsta X and Verivery,...
BTS, IU, aespa, Lim Young-woong and NCT have been voted as the best Korean singers of 2021 while “Butter” emerged as the best song of 2021. Korean entertainment media outlet Joy News 24 held a survey from Oct. 12 to 19 to celebrate its 17 anniversary. There were 200 respondents in the survey...
