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 boy band Seventeen member Vernon, girl group Billlie’s Haram and Sheon, actress Shin Hye-sun, actor-idol Lee Jun-young and Mamamoo’ Solar have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vernon tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 25, a week after Seventeen’s Wonwoo fully...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has chosen K-pop superstars BTS as the 2021 Global Recording Artist of the Year, becoming the first Korean act to bag the award for two straight years. According to IFPI, the award is based on “an artist’s or group’s worldwide...
K-pop boy band Super Junior’s Kyuhyun has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while Seventeen’s Wonwoo has been cured as South Korea breached the 100,000 mark for a single day tally of new cases. Label SJ, Super Junior’s agency, announced that Kyuhyun has been confirmed to have...
K-pop girl group ITZY’s Lia and Yeji, and boy band CNBLUE’s Yonghwa tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), increasing the number of Korean stars who got the virus to 98 since Jan. 19. Lia was the first member of ITZY to test positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 13 followed by Yeji on Feb....
Seven members of a K-pop boy band Cravity and four of K-pop group BLANK2Y tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in one day to bring the total number of infected Korean stars to at least 95 since Jan. 19. According to agency Starship Entertainment on Feb. 12, the group members who have...
Three more Korean stars have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Feb. 12 amid a surge in Omicron variant cases in South Korea. K-pop idols Wonwoo of Seventeen and Gunwoo of T1419, and Korean TV show “Running Man” star Haha have been confirmed to have COVID-19. (Clockwise from...
BTS, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Red Velvet and Seventeen copped the first five places in the brand reputation ranking for K-pop idol groups for February this year. The Korea Corporate Research Institute analyzed 93 million pieces of big data of K-pop idol groups from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1, an increase by 20.34...
Music research and analytics platform Viberate published its annual “State of Music” report, highlighting the artists that dominated social media and music apps in 2021 and the trends that will be hot in 2022. Viberate analyzed massive amounts of data (more than a trillion data points,...
2PM’s Junho, BTS’ Jimin, Kang Daniel, BTS’ Jin and ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo topped the brand reputation index for individual K-pop boy band members for the month of January. The Korea Corporate Research Institute analyzed 113.48 million pieces of brand big data covering 703 members of K-pop boy...
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,...
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...
