The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) announced the winners of the 38th Japan Gold Disc Award. First established in 1987, the Japan Gold Disc Award recognized Japanese and foreign artists based on net sales of CDs, music videos, singles, downloads and streaming. (Clockwise...
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) has announced on Feb. 27 that K-pop boy band Seventeen’s “FML” is the biggest-selling Global Album of the Year for 2023. With such, IFPI named Seventeen's “FML” as the winner of the IFPI Global Album Award for 2023....
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), the organization representing the recorded music industry worldwide, announced Taylor Swift as the winner of IFPI’s 2023 Global Recording Artist of the Year Award. The Global Recording Artist of the Year Award is calculated...
K-pop stars Jungkook of BTS and boy band Stray Kids won at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards held on Feb. 18 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Jungkook, who is on hiatus while fulfilling his military service, won The Male Artist of the Year, edging out Bad Bunny, Drake, Jack...
K-pop groups Seventeen, NCT Dream, Stray Kids and IVE emerged as the biggest winners on the second day of the 31st Hanteo Music Awards held on Feb. 18 at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. The 31st Hanteo Music Awards ceremony was held for two days on Feb. 17 and 18. It was...
BLACKPINK’s Lisa and K-pop boy band Stray Kids performed at the Le Gala des Pièces Jaunes (Yellow Coins Gala) concert aimed at raising funds for hospitalized children and adolescents. The concert was held at Accor Arena in Paris and featured Lisa, Stray Kids, Maroon 5, A$AP Rocky, J...
Luminate, the company that provides music data to Billboard for its charts, has released its “Luminate Year-End Music Report” for the US in 2023. The report include year-end charts, showing the top artists in album sales, CD album sales, digital sales, on-demand streaming and radio songs....
The Department of Health (DOH) disclosed on Friday, Jan. 5, an increase in fireworks-related injuries (FWRI) after 15 more cases were recorded pushing the total count to 600. Photo from DOH It also revealed four new confirmed stray bullet injuries (SBIs) and 11 FWRI cases, including a 44-year-old...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, Jan. 4 confirmed 28 new cases of fireworks-related injuries, bringing the total count to 585. Photo from DOH Between 12 a.m., Jan. 2 to 6 a.m., Jan. 4, 15 injuries were documented and reported from DOH’s sentinel sites. The report also highlighted...
Hanteo Chart has released the ranking of the best-selling physical albums in South Korea in 2023. The albums are ranked based on Hanteo’s proprietary physical record index (PRI) score, which combines album sales and album price. Seventeen (X) Stray Kids (X) NCT Dream (X) BTS' Jungkook...
The Department of Health on Tuesday, Jan. 2 confirmed 212 new cases of fireworks-related injuries, bringing the total to 443. This includes the first stray bullet injury and first death. Photo from DOH It said the newly reported cases, with a median age of 22 and ages ranging from one to 71 years...
BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera region recorded 15 fireworks-related injuries as of 6 a.m. on January 1. The Department of Health-Cordillera said the region had 11 new FWRIs on New Year’s Eve but this is 37 percent lower than the same period in 2022 with 24. FIREWORKS light up the sky as Baguio...
