Taeyeon will return as a solo musician with her third studio album in February, her label SM Entertainment announced on Tuesday. 　 She dropped a summer song, titled “Weekend,” last July, but it has been two years and four months since the release of her previous LP “Purpose” and the songstress will give fans a sample of the upcoming LP with a pre-release single “Can’t Control Myself,” due out on Jan. 17. 　 Taeyeon debuted as a member of Girls’ Ge

Wanna One will officially drop a new song on Jan. 27, according to local media reports on Monday. 　 The song named “Beautiful Part 3” was unveiled at the 2021 Mnet Asia Music Awards last month. The 11-member act, except for Lai Kuanlin who is in China, reunited for the first time in about three years and presented the song at the awards ceremony. 　 It has been about three years and two months since the band put out a new song, and the date coincides with the day it announced that

　 Stray Kids will meet fans at in-person events on Feb. 12 and 13, announced label JYP Entertainment on Friday.   　 The band announced its plan for 2022 and the fan meetings will be the first to be realized. It will be the second official fan meetings for the eight-member act and will be held in southern Seoul under the title “SKZ’s Chocolate Factory.” In the poster that came with the news, the bandmates went for candy-colored sweetness.   　 The band hit a career hi

BTS will not be travelling to the US as the Grammy Awards were officially postponed, said label Big Hit Music Thursday. 　 The awards ceremony was originally to be held on Jan. 31 in the US in Los Angeles, but the Recording Academy and CBS decided to postpone the event out of concern for the omicron variant, said a joint statement released on Wednesday in the US. A future date will be announced soon, it added. 　 The seven-member band was to fly to participate in the show as one of the candidates

Enhypen gave fans a sneak peek of its repackaged first studio album, “Dimension: Answer,” with a preview clip Wednesday. 　 The trailer starts with “Polaroid Love,” which was unveiled in advance at a fan meet event in November. It transitions to a snippet from the last track “Outro: Day 2,” before ending with a line from the main track “Blessed-Cursed” -- which translates to “Wake up now open your eyes.” 　 The repackaged album consists o

Blackpink Lisa’s solo song “Money” placed at No. 35 on Billboard’s pop airplay chart, the highest record for a K-pop solo female musician. 　 The song came out in September as a track from her solo debut album “Lalisa,” and joined the top 40 list that was announced on Monday in the US. The song entered the chart three weeks ago as the first entry by a solo female K-pop musician. Lisa is the first K-pop female artist to have a track on the chart for three weeks

Girl group Kep1er hosted an online showcase to signal its debut Monday.   　 The nine members of the band were chosen through a competition that started with 99 candidates from China, Japan and Korea. The program wrapped up in October and the band was originally set to debut last month, but that was postponed as two members tested positive for COVID-19 while preparing.   　 “I’m so excited and happy that I am making a debut that I’ve been only dreaming about,” gu

   New of The Boyz put out his first self-written song “0329 from.24,” said agency IST Entertainment Friday. 　 Through the song the idol singer expressed his gratitude for the love he has received from fans and wrote a letter before the release of the song to elaborate. 　 “There have been many times I was lonely and sad but thanks to you I could be a happy 24-year-old. I made this song hoping that The B could get what little consolation whenever you are overwhelmed b

Lisa of Blackpink generated 300 million streams on Spotify with her solo song, “Money,” in 112 days, the shortest time for a K-pop solo musician, according to label YG Entertainment.   　 The song, which ranked No. 93 on Billboard’s Hot 100 when it came out, is from her solo debut album, “Lalisa.” It also topped iTunes’ top songs chart in 72 regions.   　 Last month, the performance video for “Money” surpassed 300 million views on YouTube

SM Entertainment floated teaser photographs for its supergroup project Girls on Top, Wednesday.   　 The first unit -- GOT the beat -- focuses on dance and performance, and the photographs that came out on the day featured three from the seven leading female artists: Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon, Wendy of Red Velvet and Karina of aespa. Also on board are BoA, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon, Seulgi of Red Velvet and Winter of aespa.   　 On Tuesday, BoA shared photos

Suga of BTS assured fans that he is OK.   　 He wrote “I am very much all right! Don’t worry too much” on Weverse, a platform for artist-to-fan communications for Hybe musicians, Monday.   　 The artist returned to Korea from the US on Thursday and started a 10-day self-quarantine. The test result for COVID-19 came back positive the following day. Separately, RM and Jin were also found to have contracted the virus, Saturday.   　 All three bandmates came back to K

Enhypen hinted at an upcoming repack of its upcoming album with an Instagram post of a mood board on Monday. 　 The album, titled “Dimension: Answer,” is a repack of the first studio album “Dimension: Dilemma” for which it also put out a mood board. Small desks and chairs, a blue hand holding a figure with “Liar,” as well as a message that starts with “Don’t Butt In” piqued fans’ interest online. 　 A series of concept photos and a teas

Suga of BTS has been infected with COVID-19, local media reported Friday. 　 Suga’s COVID-19 test results came back positive after arriving in Korea from the US. He will be isolated. 　 Separately, BTS shared the choreography video for its holiday remix of “Butter” on Friday. 　 Using props such as Christmas-themed headwear and sparkling tinsel that matched with their warm-toned clothes, the bandmates celebrated the holidays dancing to the tune of their mega hit song’s ca

  Tomorrow X Together surprised fans with the group’s first carol, “Sweet Dreams,” Thursday.   　 The band gave just three hours’ prior notice in announcing the song’s release. The news came with an image that showed the five bandmates, each as a stamp, with a Christmas tree.   　 In the R&B-based tune featuring melodic piano sounds, they wish everyone a warm Christmas despite the challenging time, with only good things in the future.  

BTS has topped the albums category of Oricon’s annual ranking 2021 with its best-of album in Japan, “BTS, The Best,” according to the Japanese chart on Wednesday. 　 This is the first time an international group topped the list and the second time for an international artist. Michael Jackson was the only one to take the spot with “Thriller” in 1984. 　 The album debuted as No. 1 on its weekly album ranking (June 28) selling 782,000 copies in the first week of sales, a

   Jeongyeon of Twice will be absent from the band’s upcoming concerts in Seoul, announced label JYP Entertainment late Monday. 　 Citing health reasons, the firm said that after discussing the issue with her bandmates, she has decided not to participate in the two-day concerts slated to be held Dec. 25-26. 　 It will be the third time Jeongyeon has taken a break from performing. The idol suspended activities two times before, in October last year and in August this year due to he

aespa put out its own take on “Dreams Come True,” a 1998 hit song by S.E.S., on Monday. 　 BoA participated in producing the remake for the rookie girl group adding fresh energy and hip-hop vibes to the dreamy sounds of the main track from the second studio album of S.E.S. 　 This is part of a project by label SM Entertainment and YouTube that seeks to upgrade the music videos and songs of legendary artists produced by the entertainment giant from over the past two decades. 　 On Thur

Twice decided to cancel the first show of its three-day concert that was originally planned to start from Dec. 24-26. 　 This is to keep in line with strengthened measures to curb the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases, according to which the concert venue has to close at 10 p.m. The first day’s concert was to begin at 7:30 p.m. and running time was 2 1/2 hours. 　 The concerts on the following two days start at 6 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively and will be held as scheduled. The Sunday concer

Seventeen continues to reign at the top of Japanese charts with its special single “Ainochikara.”  The single topped Billboard Japan’s weekly single sales chart, logging close to 247,000 copies in sales. It also was No. 2 on Billboard Japan’s Hot 100, according to the publication’s latest announcement on Wednesday. It was released on Dec. 8 and landed atop Oricon’s daily single ranking and maintained the spot for six days before hitting its weekly sing

NCT’s third full-length album “Universe” landed atop iTunes top albums chart in 30 regions as well as all major charts in Korea. 　 The 13-track album was fully unveiled on Tuesday and won the platinum album certification from China’s largest music platform QQ Music for having logged over 1 million yuan ($157,000) in sales. 　 NCT U, a subunit of the 21-member band, performed “Universe (Let’s Play Ball),” one of the double title tracks of the LP, in advan