Main Prize awardees (clockwise from top left) BTS, Stray Kids, TXT, NCT 127, IZ*ONE, Seventeen, Monsta X, Kang Daniel, NU’EST, Oh My Girl, TWICE and ATEEZ (Twitter) The 30th High1 Seoul Music Awards (SMA) ceremony was held on Jan. 31 to honor outstanding artists who released music from January...
iKON (Twitter) iKON, which won the “daesang” (grand prize) for the song “Love Scenario,” is in the final stages of negotiation to join “Kingdom,” a competition between K-pop boy bands. Korean media reported that iKON, if finally confirmed to appear on the show, will be competing against...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS’ V, BTS’ Jungkook, EXO’s Lay, NCT’s Taeyong, BTS’ Jimin, ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo, ENHYPEN’s Ni-Ki, Seventeen’s Mingyu and Wonho. (Screenshots from TC Candler’s YouTube video) TC Candler’s The 100 Most Handsome Faces of 2020 includes 24 K-pop idols,...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, Seventeen, NCT, BLACKPINK, NCT 127, IZ*ONE, TWICE, EXO’s Baekhyun, Stray Kids and TXT (Twitter, Instagram) Gaon Music Chart has released the rankings for the best-selling artists in Korea in 2020 based on the total sales of physical albums. Despite the...
The top 10 most tweeted about K-pop groups in the Philippines in 2020 are (clockwise from top left) Seventeen, EXO, TWICE, Treasure, BLACKPINK, TXT, GOT7, ENHYPEN, Stray Kids and BTS (Twitter, Instagram) Twitter Philippines has announced the most tweeted about K-pop groups and K-pop hashtags in the...
Twitter’s top 10 Most Tweeted K-pop accounts globally in 2020 (Twitter) Twitter has revealed the top 10 most tweeted K-pop accounts globally and most tweeted about people worldwide in 2020. According to Twitter, the top 10 Most Tweeted K-pop accounts globally in 2020 are: BTS (@bts_twt) EXO...
Kathryn Bernardo As a fur mom to 11 dogs, actress Kathryn Bernardo is elated that San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is now taking care of the stray dogs that were stranded in the town of Bulakan. “I'm proud of the San Miguel family for taking care of the dogs that were stranded in Bulacan,” said...
K-pop superstars BTS bagged four trophies to emerge as the biggest winner at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMA) held on Nov. 8 (Nov. 9 in the Philippines). BTS won four out of their five nominations: Best Song for their hit “Dynamite,” Best Group, Biggest Fans and Best Virtual Live for...
Trot singer Kim Ho-joong and K-pop boy bands Stray Kids and The Boyz grabbed the first three places in top album sales for the month of September. Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the rankings for September showing that Kim Ho-joong’s album “My Family,” released on Sept. 23, ranked first with...
(Clockwise from top left) EXO-SC, ATEEZ, Red Velvet’s Irene and Seulgi, SF9, GFriend, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, Lee Jin-hyuk, AB6IX and Woodz (Twitter) South Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the list of artists who topped its monthly music chart for July. EXO-SC, composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, took...