Yeonjun, a member of K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT), has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Feb. 17 while members of girl groups (G)I-DLE and Cherry Bullet are awaiting to confirm their positive results. “Yeonjun had felt unwell including having a headache on Saturday...
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...
K-pop Radar, a “fandom data service” by music startup Space Oddity, released the lists of K-pop artists who posted the highest increases in the number of followers on Instagram and Twitter in 2021. The Instagram and Twitter rankings are based on the period Jan. 1 to Dec. 15, 2021. K-pop...
TC Candler and The Independent Critics published “The 100 Most Handsome Faces of 2021.” This year’s list includes many K-pop stars including BTS’ V (3rd place), BTS’ Jungkook (No. 5), Stray Kids’ Hyunjin (No. 12), BTS’ Jimin (No. 14) and ENHYPEN’s Ni-Ki (No. 18). “Unlike most...
HYBE has announced the artists for the global music festival “2022 Weverse Con ,” which will be held both in-person and online at Ilsan’s Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province in South Korea on Dec. 31. “2022 Weverse Con ” is a music festival where...
Spotify has released the lists of the most streamed K-pop artists, groups and songs in 2021. As part of its year-end #SpotifyWrapped, Spotify released the most streamed songs, artists and groups globally in 2021. The most streamed K-pop artists on Spotify in 2021 are (clockwise from top left) BTS,...
HYBE Corp., which manages K-pop groups BTS, TXT, Seventeen and ENHYPEN, and Universal Music Group (UMG) have launched a global audition to form the next pop girl group in the US. The two companies launched the first-ever HYBE x Geffen Global Girl Group Audition to launch a global, diverse and...
The nominees in different categories for the 2021 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) have been announced on Nov. 3. This year, drastic changes have been implemented in the criteria to select the winners in various categories. BEST MALE GROUP nominees (clockwise from top left) BTS, NCT 127, NCT Dream,...
K-pop boy bands and Big Hit Music artists BTS and TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and Netflix’s global hit Korean series “Squid Game” have been nominated at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards. The PCAs will be held on Dec. 7 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and will be broadcast on NBC...
Big Hit Music, which gave birth to BTS and Tomorrow X Together (TXT), is holding the 2021 Big Hit Music Global Audition to discover the next generation of boy groups. From Oct. 18 to Dec. 20, any male born after 2002, regardless of nationality and residence, can apply to one of the four categories:...
(Clockwise from top left) Stray Kids, The Boyz, TXT, ASTRO and Red Velvet (Twitter) K-pop boy bands Stray Kids, The Boyz, TXT and ASTRO, and girl group Red Velvet led the monthly physical album sales in South Korea in August. According to Korea’s Hanteo Chart, which announced the best-selling...
