BTS amassed 2 billion streams on Spotify with “Dynamite,” said label Big Hit Music Tuesday citing the platform’s data from Saturday. The 2020 mega hit is the first K-pop song to achieve the feat. The digital single has set a series of records on the platform as a K-pop tune: debuting atop its Daily Top Songs Global and reaching the one-billion-mark for the first time, as well as generating the most plays on its day of release. With “Dynamite,” the band claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 1

Jennie of Blackpink fronted the January issue of Billboard magazine on her own. The cover photo accompanies an in-depth interview with the artist, who is poised to release a new solo album. “It’s a fight between me, myself and I,” she admitted in the interview, adding that as a “self-described workaholic” and a “perfectionist,” she is “not easy to convince … It’s not easy working with me.” Jennie is preparing to release her first album in 11 months, as she said in a video posted last month. She

Stray Kids announced its fifth official fan meetup Wednesday via label JYP Entertainment. A poster for SKZ 5’Clock showed that the eight members will greet fans at Inspire Arena in Incheon on Feb. 14-16. The last day’s event will be livestreamed as well. This specifies the yearlong plan the band put out Monday, which also includes resuming world tour dominATE from March. It is slated to visit 20 cities across the world from Santiago, Chile and Los Angeles to Paris and London. Last month, the oct

Fifty Fifty’s first season song was chosen as one of Billboard's "25 Best New Christmas Songs of 2024: Staff Picks,” agency Attract said Monday. “Naughty or Nice” is a combination of “fun K-pop with snazzy retro jazz vibes” and “a pace-changing banger that finds the girl group taking a page out of Santa Claus’ book and asking the eternal question: Are you naughty or nice?” wrote the American publication. The single is from the quintet’s digital single “Winter Glow” which was released on Dec. 9.

Seventeen added another record on Oricon’s annual wrap-up of this year announced Friday. Its best-of album “17 Is Right Here” claimed No. 3 spot on the annual Combined Album Ranking, the highest rung for an international artist this year, with 12th EP “Spill The Feels” sitting two rungs below. The 13-member act is the only artist to have multiple albums among top 10 on the chart. The compilation album and 12th EP ranked No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, on annual album ranking and 11th EP from last

Le Sserafim has achieved 100 million views on YouTube on the music video for “Crazy,” agency Source Music said Thursday. It is the eighth music video from the group to reach the milestone. American magazine Teen Vogue picked it as one of 15 Best K-Pop Music Videos of 2024 earlier this month, writing

Jimin of BTS surpassed 1.2 billion plays on Spotify with solo “Who” on Monday. He achieved the feat in just 151 days -- the shortest time for both a K-pop artist and a male solo artist, beating the record previously set by Harry Styles‘ with “As It Was.” “Who” fronted Jimin‘s second solo album “Muse

V of BTS made Billboard’s Hot 100 for the third time this year as a solo act. His collaborative remix of Bing Crosby’s winter classic “White Christmas” debuted on the main songs chart at No. 93. He ranked No. 99 on the chart a week earlier with another winter solo single, “Winter Ahead,” featuring P

Rose of Blackpink entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3 with her first solo full album, according to the chart preview published Sunday in the US. It is the highest spot for a K-pop solo female singer on the main albums chart. She rolled out her LP “Rosie” on Dec. 6, and the album debuted on the UK’s O

NewJeans has accumulated 700 million plays on Spotify with “Ditto,” according to agency Ador, citing the platform on Friday. The group repeated the feat it previously achieved with “OMG,” which reached the milestone in August. “Ditto” came out in December 2022 as a prerelease from single album “OMG,