K-pop boy bands Stray Kids and Tomorrow X Together led the winners at the inaugural Asia Star Entertainer Awards (ASEA) 2024 held in Yokohama, Japan on April 10. ASEA 2024 was hosted by Newsen, Korea’s entertainment and sports media outlet, and AtStyle, a Korean online entertainment...
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....
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...
K-pop artists BTS’ Jungkook, Stray Kids, BLACKPINK and NewJeans bagged awards at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) held on Nov. 19 (Nov. 20 in the Philippines). Jungkook won Top Global K-Pop Song for “Seven (feat. Latto), edging out Fifty Fifty’s “Cupid,” Jimin’s...
TIME has released its new 2023 list of Next Generation Leaders for fall and it includes a politician, K-pop group and a drag queen. The new list features a cover profile of First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf, the first non-white and youngest First Minister, as well as the first Muslim...
Three members of K-pop boy band Stray Kids were injured in a car accident on Sept. 20, their agency announced. “While returning to their dorms after a schedule on September 20th (Wed), the vehicle carrying Stray Kids members Lee Know, Hyunjin, and Seungmin was involved in a minor...
