According to Billboard, a US music industry publication, on March 28th local time, the album “SPIN OFF: FROM THE WITNESS” by ATEEZ, released in December last year, rose to 15th place on the Billboard 200. At the time, ATEEZ rose to 7th place on the Billboard 200 after the release of “SPIN OFF: FROM THE […]
Recently, Lee Sun-jeong, the head of YouTube Music Partnerships at Google Korea headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, recalled the explosive global growth of K-pop over the past 10 years, saying “K-Pop has had explosive growth globally over the past 10 years.” Lee, who has been with Google for 15 years, moved to the Korean branch in […]
Japanese economic newspaper Nikkei’s industry-focused publication, “Nikkei Industry News,” introduced two Japanese venture capital (VC) firms that had the largest profits from IPOs in 2022 on February 15. They are Legend Capital, whose parent company is in China, and Japanese VC Skyland Ventures. The two firms invested in a single company, the Japanese “virtual YouTuber” […]
Actress Kim Tae-hee’s agency published a statement on allegations of tax evasion. Kim Tae-hee’s agency stated that Kim Tae-hee has been diligently paying her taxes in accordance with the tax laws for the past few years. The recent issue arose due to a delay in the payment of modelling fees for commercials that the client […]
Fantagio, the agency of K-pop group ASTRO, announced on the 28th, “After deep discussions with member Rocky, who has been with the group for the past 7 years, we have decided to terminate his exclusive contract with the agency and his activities as a member of ASTRO. We express our gratitude to Rocky for his […]
EXO is kicking off their return as a full group with a fan meeting, commemorating their 11th debut anniversary. According to their agency, SM Entertainment, EXO will hold the ‘2023 EXO FANMEETING ‘EXO’ CLOCK’ on April 8th and 9th at the KSPO DOME in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, where they will meet fans through a variety […]
On the 25th, according to the world’s largest music streaming platform Spotify, the combined streaming count of the six songs included in New Jeans’ debut album “New Jeans” and single album “OMG” has surpassed 918.19 million streams (as of the 22nd). NewJeans’ debut song “Hype Boy” currently has the most streams with 227.39 million plays. […]
SM Entertainment (hereafter referred to as SM) made an announcement to fans supporting SM artists through their official YouTube channel on the 24th. First, SM mentioned four additional measures to protect their artists, in addition to their efforts to protect their artists from malicious posts. These include: ▲ launching a site specifically designed to report […]
On the 26th, the production team of the Netflix variety show “Physical: 100” denied allegations that there were multiple re-matchings in the final match. They explained that there were only temporary pauses and resumptions due to technical difficulties with the audio at the beginning of the game and small interviews with the participants, but there […]
As TRENDZ prepares for their March comeback, their hashtag #trendz on the video platform TikTok has surpassed 470 million views (as of 4 pm on the 23rd). This impressive achievement, following their recent release of the single “BLUE SET Chapter. UNKNOWN CODE,” which reached a career high, is significant in that it is a record […]
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