The band’s third track “Cookie” is a dance-pop song based on hip-hop beats with unique lyrics. “We made this album with the same sincere heart we have when we bake cookies. In the same way people can’t think of any other food once they indulge in a delicious cookie, we want to put out music that people keep looking out for,” the band said in a press release about the new song. Ahead of its offi...

K-pop group Stray Kids put out its new digital single, titled "Mixtape: Time Out," on Monday, the group's agency said. "Aug. 1 is a meaningful day, when the name of the band's fandom 'Stay' was made, so the band prepared a surprise present to celebrate the fandom's birthday," JYP Entertainment said. "Mixtape: Time Out," released at midnight, is a rock genre song written by the members based on ...

The latest repackage album from Seventeen has come in fourth on the US Billboard's main albums chart, becoming the band's highest-charting album. "Sector 17" was fourth on the Billboard 200, selling 34,000 equivalent album units, Billboard said Sunday (US time) in a preview of the upcoming chart. The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States, measured by equiv...

The UKiss leader says “Count On Me” to members and fans with his first EP

ITZY dropped a collaborative single with American singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha on Friday. Yeji and Ryujin sang with the musician for a remake of “Break My Heart Myself,” her song from last year. The two members shared a video in June dancing to the song. Rexha thanked the two, sharing a clip from the video and writing on her Instagram: “‘Break My Heart Myself’ was always my favorite so...

J-Hope of K-pop sensation BTS will make history as the first Korean musician to take the main stage at Lollapalooza, an annual four-day music festival held in Chicago’s Grand Park. He is scheduled to perform as the main headliner on Sunday (US time). This year’s Lollapalooza kicked off on Thursday at noon, with some 170 big-name artists set to perform on eight different stages. J-Hope will perfo...

Gyuri of fromis_9 has left the group, and the band will continue as an eight-member act. She will terminate her activities and contract as a member as of July 31, said Pledis Entertainment on Thursday. All her bandmates signed with the company in August last year, while Jang maintained her contract with their first agency, Off The Record. Pledis Entertainment, however, has been supporting ...

K-pop boy band TO1 on Thursday dropped its 3rd EP “Why Not??,” marking its return to the music scene after eight months. TO1 is a nine-piece multinational K-pop group consisting of Dong-geon, Chan, Ji-su, Jae-yun, J.You, Kyung-ho, Daigo, Renta and Yeo-jeong. This is its first album with three new members -- Daigo, Renta and Yeo-jeong -- who joined the group last year. After dropping the new al...

We have been receiving many messages from our Indian viewers about how to become a K-pop idol here, so we decided to invite India’s first K-pop idol, Shreya Lenka. Shreya is about to debut with the K-pop band Blackswan as Sriya. From why she decided to debut here, to what it was like to secure that one spot competing against 4,000 applicants and her goals as a K-pop idol, Shreya shared with us h...

K-pop diva IU, the star of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's first Korean-language film "Broker," will return as a singer this fall. She will hold "The Golden Hour" concerts on Sept. 17 and 18 at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium in southern Seoul, her agency, EDAM Entertainment said Thursday. It marks her first concerts in three years since the "Love, Poem" shows held in four South Korean cities ...

Sales of K-pop albums have once again reached an all-time-high in the first half of this year, a local market tracker said. According to Kim Jin-woo, head researcher of Circle Chart, which reports accumulated sales and streams, combined sales of the nation‘s top 400 physical albums have risen to 34.9 million copies in the first half of 2022, up 34.6 percent from a year ago. It was the highest ...

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IST Entertainment’s new boy band ATBO has embarked on their journey with debut album “The Beginning.” Formed through the TV survival show “The Origin - A, B, Or What?,” the seven-member group finally entered the K-pop scene and conducted a debut showcase a few hours ahead of the album drop on Wednesday. Making their first appearance in front of the media, the band’s leader Oh Junseok said, “Our...

BTS’ anthology album “Proof” extended its stay on the Billboard 200, sitting at No. 37. The compilation album debuted at No. 1 on the chart, its sixth album to achieve the feat. The album sold close to 3 million copies as of the first week of July, after selling over 2 million in the first week of sales. The septet had four songs each on the Billboard Global 200 and Global Chart excluding the...