Better to include his songs to your next solo bedroom party Paolo Melendez As OPM icon Gary Valenciano said, "Healing can happen anytime when it comes to music." While it doesn't physically cure anything—or maybe there just isn’t enough scientific evidence to prove otherwise—many find comfort...
(Clockwise from top left) NCT Dream, Seventeen, IU, Brave Girls, BTS and BLACKPINK (Twitter, Instagram) Gaon Music Chart has issued the list of the top-selling songs and albums in Korea, and the most popular artists for the first half of 2021. Album Chart In the first half of 2021, the...
After music and fashion, filmmaking is her new passion MODERN RENDITION OF A CLASSIC Kate Torralba as Lidi Makbet, the Visayan incarnation of Lady Macbeth There is a new director on the block—musician and fashion designer Kate Torralba! We were invited to critique the “recital” of Mowelfund...
BTS (Twitter) K-pop superstars BTS’ new release, the “Butter” CD single, sold more than two million copies on the first day of release. “Butter” CD was released on July 9 and according to Korea’s Gaon Music Chart, it sold 2,153,747 copies on the first day and topped the daily retail...
NCT Dream (Twitter) K-pop boy band NCT Dream’s first studio album “Hot Sauce” has been officially certified to have sold two million copies. On July 8, Korea’s Gaon Music Chart, which is under the supervision of the Korea Music Content Association (KMCA), issued certifications for...
Lilystars Records’ Clem Castro (left) and ADA Asia’s Chee Meng Tan ADA Asia, part of Warner Music Group’s independent artist and label services division, has formed an alliance with Lilystars Records, a Philippine independent record label. Under the agreement, ADA Asia will support...
If you haven’t seen it yet, you better check it out SB19 and Ben&Ben (Photo from @benandbenmusic) The much-awaited band version of SB19's hit "MAPA" with Ben&Ben premiered early this week and fans are going gaga over it. Who can blame them? This collaboration is one great OPM. First...
Vice President Leni Robredo believes that history will judge the late former President Benigno Aquino III kindly even as “wrongful accusations and disinformation” were hurled against him in the past five years. Robredo said the people who saw him up close are in grief because “he was not just...
Now these walls sing with the piano, violin, flute, and other instruments, including the conga and the kulintang Three wall murals by a trio of artists from the 2018 Thirteen Artist Awardees (TAA) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) have been reinterpreted into musical compositions by...
As a welcome breather from the ongoing global pandemic, the Department of Tourism (DOT) is inviting the public, especially music lovers, to plug back into a festive musical mood by joining this year's virtual Fête de la Musique. Robin for El Nido Stage (Photo from Jagged Perspective / Department...
A marriage of local music and domestic destinations Fête de la Musique, also known in English as “Music Day,” is an annual French tradition, which later on become an international phenomenon. Every June 21, citizens of a city or a country are permitted and encouraged to play music outside of...
Marking the sixth National Rondalla Workshop, the Artist Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) announced that the workshop, that has been known to be open to just group applications, is calling for individual applications for conductors and instrumentalists in response to popular...
