K-pop supergroup SuperM’s debut studio album “Super One,” released on Sept. 25, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard 200 for the Oct 10-dated chart. According to Billboard, the album “bows with 104,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 101,000 are from album sales, 3,000 from SEA units...
K-pop supergroup SuperM made their comeback today, Sept. 25, with the release of their first ever studio album “Super One” and the music video for the carrier single “One (Monster & Infinity).” Seven-member SuperM is composed of Baekhyun and Kai of EXO, Taemin of SHINee, Mark and...
K-pop boy bands BTS, EXO, GOT7 received nominations for the 2020 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), a repeat of what happened last year. The BBMAs announced the nominees in 55 categories for this year’s ceremony, which will be held on Oct. 14 at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and to be hosted again by...
Recent data released by Twitter showed the Philippines among top 5 countries in the world with the most avid K-pop fans. Twitter released the data to celebrate 10 years of #KpopTwitter. It included the most mentioned K-pop artists and songs and top 20 markets for K-pop in the world. “Through your...
K-pop boy band EXO member Chen turned 28 today, Sept. 21, and fans marked the occasion by making the hashtag #AngelChenDay and the topics “Daddy Chen” and “Jongdae” trend on Twitter. Daddy Chen refers to Chen having a baby this year. Fans were surprised when it was announced last January...
K-pop boy bands BTS, NCT, ATEEZ and EXO became the most tweeted about musicians in the US during the quarantine period. Twitter provided Manila Bulletin Entertainment with the Twitter From Home trend report with the list of most tweeted about musicians, movies, TV shows and food, and emoji trends...
K-pop superstars BTS won four awards and iconic girl group BLACKPINK received their first ever trophy at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) held Aug. 30 (Aug. 31 in the Philippines). BTS and BLACKPINK (Big Hit / YG Entertainment) BTS swept all the categories that they were nominated in and...
(Clockwise from top left) EXO-SC, ATEEZ, Red Velvet’s Irene and Seulgi, SF9, GFriend, BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, Lee Jin-hyuk, AB6IX and Woodz (Twitter) South Korea’s Hanteo Chart released the list of artists who topped its monthly music chart for July. EXO-SC, composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, took...
Best K-pop nominees (clockwise from top left) BTS, EXO, Monsta X, Red Velvet, (G)I-DLE and TXT (Twitter) MTV has released the list of nominees for 2020 Video Music Awards (VMA) and several K-pop acts are in the running in three categories. The 2020 VMAs will air on Aug. 30 (Aug. 31 in the...
(Clockwise from top left) BTS, Big Bang, EXO, Shinhwa, Super Junior and IU (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) Last July 22, Bulletin Entertainment revealed the results of the social media analysis on Korean singers and actors in a comprehensive research on Hallyu, or Korean Wave, done by the Korea...
Most talked about on social media in the Philippines are (clockwise from top left) BTS, EXO, BLACKPINK, GOT7 and iKON The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has released a comprehensive research on Hallyu, or Korean Wave, tourism market in different countries around the world including surveys of...
EXO-SC’s Sehun and Chanyeol (Twitter) EXO-SC, a unit of K-pop boy band EXO composed of Sehun and Chanyeol, made their comeback and in just two days, they sold more than 300,000 copies of their new album. The duo released their first studio album “1 Billion Views” on July 13 containing...
