K-pop idol group Super Junior marked their 15th year in the business with a concert and an exhibition that showed their history. Super Junior debuted on Nov. 6, 2005 with the song “Twins (Knock Out)” with 12 members. Kyuhyun was added in 2006. To celebrate the milestone, Super Junior held an...
K-pop groups Seventeen, NCT, BLACKPINK, TXT and TWICE copped the first five places in album sales for the month of October. South Korea’s Hanteo Chart has released the list of best-selling albums for the month of October based on online and offline sales. Seventeen’s “Semicolon” album,...
K-pop boy groups BTS, EXO and NCT 127 bagged nominations at the 2020 American Music Awards (AMAs), which will be held live at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on ABC on Nov. 22 at 8 p.m. EST (Nov. 23, 8 a.m. in the Philippines). The three K-pop groups are vying for the Favorite Social Artist award...
K-pop supergroup SuperM’s debut studio album “Super One,” released on Sept. 25, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard 200 for the Oct 10-dated chart. According to Billboard, the album “bows with 104,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 101,000 are from album sales, 3,000 from SEA units...
K-pop supergroup SuperM made their comeback today, Sept. 25, with the release of their first ever studio album “Super One” and the music video for the carrier single “One (Monster & Infinity).” Seven-member SuperM is composed of Baekhyun and Kai of EXO, Taemin of SHINee, Mark and...
Recent data released by Twitter showed the Philippines among top 5 countries in the world with the most avid K-pop fans. Twitter released the data to celebrate 10 years of #KpopTwitter. It included the most mentioned K-pop artists and songs and top 20 markets for K-pop in the world. “Through your...
K-pop boy bands BTS, NCT, ATEEZ and EXO became the most tweeted about musicians in the US during the quarantine period. Twitter provided Manila Bulletin Entertainment with the Twitter From Home trend report with the list of most tweeted about musicians, movies, TV shows and food, and emoji trends...
(Clockwise from left) Ben&Ben, DAY6’s Young K and NCT’s Mark (Twitter/Instagram) Award-winning Pinoy band Ben&Ben and their song “Leaves” entered South Korean music chart Melon’s real-time search, apparently after getting shout-outs from members of K-pop idol groups. Fan...
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...
(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...
