K-pop girl group TWICE made their first-ever appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since debuting in 2015. Billboard announced that TWICE’s first English single “The Feels” debuted at No. 83 on Hot 100 on the Oct. 16-dated chart. TWICE (Twitter) “It earns the group its first career...
K-pop girl group aespa topped the weekly album chart as their first mini-album reached more than 257,000 copies in sales. According to Hanteo Chart, “Savage,” aespa’s first mini-album, sold 257,470 copies in six days and earned first place on the weekly physical album chart for the period...
The 2021 The Fact Music Awards ceremony was held on Oct. 2 at the Paradise Hotel and Resort in Jung-gu, Incheon in South Korea. Hosted by The Fact media outlet and Fan N Star, the ceremony had Shin Dong Yup and Seohyun of Girls’ Generation as emcees while Boom took charge of the red carpet event....
MAN OF RHYTHM Filipino-Australian artist Bryan Estepa If you haven’t heard of Bryan Estepa, now is the perfect time to get to know him and his music. The half-Filipino, half-Aussie indie pop artist has just released his latest EP Back To The Middle . A rockstar of the burgeoning indie music scene...
MRC Data and Billboard issued the “Global Music & Chart Report: A Year in Review” covering top songs and artists in the past year on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. US charts. The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. US were launched last year with the first...
K-pop boy band NCT 127’s third studio album “Sticker” has sold 2.15 million copies in just one week after its release. SM Entertainment, in a press release, said NCT 127’s “Sticker” album, released on Sept. 17, recorded sales of 2,152,399 copies as of noon of Sept. 24. NCT 127 at their...
The “Loving You” album is meant to uplift listeners during these times. The 11-track album compiles original music from almost a dozen promising singers, lyricists, composers and singer-songwriters. Released by KDR Music House, the common theme on the “Loving You” album is positivity. The...
A tour of the critically acclaimed folk-pop band’s Pebble House, Vol. 1: Kuwaderno MUSICIANS AND CHRONICLERS Clockwise from left: Ben&Ben members Agnes, Jam, the Benjamin brothers, Andrew, Toni, Kiefer, and Poch August ended with a bang as Ben&Ben launched their latest album Pebble House,...
BTS won Group of the Year at 2021 VMAs (Screenshot from VMA video) K-pop superstars and Grammy nominees BTS won three awards at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) held on Sept. 12 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. BTS bagged Group of the Year, Best K-pop and Song of Summer for “Butter.”...
“MAPA,” a song written by John Paolo Nase and performed by P-Pop male group SB19, is undoubtedly one of the most inspiring songs about children’s love for parents that you'll hear today. As of writing it garnered close to 45 million views on YouTube, capturing not just the hearts of Filipinos...
A stacked slate of artists lit up MTV's 40th annual Video Music Awards on Sunday, returning in full force to Brooklyn's Barclays Center after last year's scaled-back pandemic show. The 2021 VMAs -- a show known more for ostentatious performances, made-for-Twitter moments and wild costumes than the...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will conduct a research to map out, assess, and define the Philippine music industry. Department of Science and Technology To be led by the DOST’s National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), the new policy research is in support of the...
