P-pop never looked this good For 2022, H&M launches a new campaign that fuses music and fashion. The Swedish fashion brand is shining a new spotlight on up-and-coming Filipino music artists with the launch of Music X Me. Patrons of the brand will now see more Filipino artists featured on their...
Sting joins the growing list of singer-songwriters who have sold their publishing to major publishing companies. The awarded singer-songwriter reached a deal with Universal Music Group. The company now owns the songs he wrote for The Police and his solo career. “While financial terms weren’t...
Love month playlist ABS-CBN Music Some people associate February with love because of Valentine’s Day, but as many would probably agree to, romantic relationships entail a handful of sacrifices and complications that make the meaning of love month different for every individual. Here are some...
K-pop superstars BTS emerged as the biggest winner at the 11th Gaon Chart Music Awards ceremony held on Jan. 27. The music awards show recognized top albums, digital music and artists covering the period December 2020 to November 2021. BTS won eight awards. They bagged Artist of the Year (digital...
K-pop boy band The Boyz member Eric has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid a surge in daily cases in South Korea. Eric, 21, is the latest K-pop idol to catch COVID-19 as South Korea recorded 8,571 new cases on Jan. 25, the highest daily tally since January 2020 when the country...
Bob Dylan (AFP) NEW YORK (AFP) - Bob Dylan sold his entire back catalog of recorded music along with "the rights to multiple future new releases" to Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced Monday, the latest high-profile deal of the recent music rights purchasing rush. Sony did not disclose...
The 31st High1 Seoul Music Awards (SMA) ceremony was held on Jan. 23 at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul to honor outstanding artists who released music in 2021. K-pop boy band NCT 127 emerged as the biggest winner of the night, taking home the “daesang” or grand prize. (Clockwise from top left)...
A total of 57.09 million physical copies of K-pop albums were sold in 2021, according to Korea’s Gaon Music Chart. The total is an increase of 15.38 million albums, or 37 percent, compared to 41.7 million copies of K-pop albums sold in 2020. The total physical album sales in 2021 were based on...
Guji Lorenzana Ingrooves Music Group, a world leader in music distribution, marketing and technology, has named Guji Lorenzana Country Manager of the Philippines. The company’s continued expansion into Asia includes signing the Philippines-based Curve Entertainment label to a global distribution...
7AC90E57-BEB9-49E2-97F4-D411E6F1D16F ROME, Italy — Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, made a surprise visit to a Rome record store to bless the premises -- and picked up some vinyl while there. The 85-year-old pontiff slipped into Stereosound, located across from the Pantheon, on...
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,...
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