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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The “All Of Me” singer recently sold his publishing catalog for an undisclosed amount. BMG Rights Management and investment firm KKR “each purchased a 50% stake in Legend’s catalog. The deal covers all the music Legend wrote from late 2004 through early 2021, an impressive body of work that...
Gaon Music Chart has revealed the best-selling albums in Korea in 2021 based on sales In the 2021 Album Chart (based on total shipments minus returns), BTS’ “Butter” topped the tally with 2.99 million copies. NCT 127’s “Sticker” placed second with 2.42 million copies followed by NCT...
K-pop superstars BTS cancelled their trip to the US after the 64th Grammy Awards show was postponed. The 64th Annual Grammy Awards show was originally scheduled to be held on Jan. 31 at Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center) in Los Angeles. However, due to the rising number of coronavirus...
David Bowie (AFP) NEW YORK (AFP) - David Bowie's estate has sold the publishing rights to his "entire body of work" to Warner Chappell Music, the company said Monday, the latest massive deal in a roaring song rights purchasing boom. Warner Chappell did not reveal financial terms of the agreement,...
Just like everyone else, we look to the promise of better times in 2022. Foremost, of course, is to be finally free from this pandemic. And we also look forward to the music that will surely come. Whether from solo acts, bands, or whatever configuration it comes in, we eagerly await that music...
K-pop Radar, a “fandom data service” by music startup Space Oddity, released the top 10 most viewed K-pop music videos on YouTube in 2021. It “highlighted the brilliant achievements of artists who heated up 2021 through year-end settlement data.” K-pop Radar's top 10 most viewed K-pop music...
