Twice thanked fans for helping it get a diamond button from YouTube, announced label JYP Entertainment Monday. The nine members thanked Once, the band’s official fandom community, for supporting them and shared their excitement at receiving the memorabilia, which is given to those with 10 million subscribers. They celebrated the occasion with an unboxing video and pictures. The group started ...

Hybe, the company behind BTS, and its leaders have made it onto the lists of two international media outlets in recognition of their growing influence in the world. Time magazine announced its annual “Time100 Most Influential Companies” on Wednesday. Hybe and Samsung were the only two South Korean companies on the list, which also included Google, Apple and Netflix. This was the first time Hybe ...

Young designer hopes to reinvent Korean traditional attire

G(I)-dle’s new single “Last Dance” have stormed music charts at home and abroad. The song was unveiled on Thursday and rose straight to the top tier of major music charts in Korea. It also landed at the top of iTunes K-pop song charts in five regions, while ranking among the top 10 in 18 regions for top song single charts. The five members showed off dazzling performances to the hypnotic ...

BTS has clinched nominations in four categories -- the most for the K-pop superstars -- in the upcoming 2021 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) set for next month. The seven-member act was nominated in the categories of Top Duo/Group, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Social Artist and Top Selling Song at this year's BBMAs, scheduled for May 23 (US time), according to Billboard. It marks the most nominati...

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BTS uploaded an image with the timeline for promoting its upcoming digital single “Butter” on Thursday. According to the schedule, it will start releasing four concept clips every four to six days, starting from Sunday. Teaser photos will follow in two installments over two weeks and a teaser trailer for the music video will be floated on May 19. The single, along with the full video, will be...

Seungri, a former member of Big Bang, was included in the profile picture for the band’s Facebook account that was updated last weekend. The black-and-white photo features G-Dragon, Taeyang, T.O.P, Daesung and Seungri walking down a road with five stripes, representing the quintet. Seungri left the band and retired from the entertainment industry itself, with an official statement in March 2...

Combined streaming of the BTS megahit "Dynamite" has reached more than 300 million in Japan, a music chart tracker in the Asian country showed Wednesday. The disco-pop track added 6.69 million streams in the latest weekly streaming chart compiled by Oricon between April 19 and 25, hitting 306.53 million streams in total, said Big Hit Music, the K-pop act's agency, citing the Japanese music chart...

Lee Hyun-joo, formerly of the band April, announced that she will take legal action against a netizen who exposed her private life through an online post. Her lawyer said on Tuesday that she sued the person for defamation and blackmail the day before. The person claimed that he used to work for DSP Media, the band’s management company. The post said that Lee had allegedly gotten plastic s...

K-pop sensation BTS is ready to come back next month with the cheerful summer number "Butter," its agency said Tuesday. The "fun and upbeat summer song," which will be the seven-piece act's second English single following "Dynamite" released last year, will drop globally in a digital version at 1 p.m. on May 21, according to Big Hit Music. The physical version of the new single will be availabl...

Speaking about their first on-site fan meetup in February, the band hoped for more chances to get together with fans this year. “We realized the gap between the energy from an online meeting and an offline meeting,” Jungwon said, adding, “that experience has become a driving force for us as we endure this period.” Jay said, “We’d had different expectations (about offline events) before we made ...

AB6IX came out with fourth EP “Mo’ Complete: Have a Dream” on Monday. It has been only three months since previous album “Salute: A New Hope,” which sang of establishing one’s identity. The new EP is a sequel to the band’s debut album, “B:Complete,” from May 2019. It consists of five tracks, three of which were produced by Lee Daehwi. Lead track “Close” is in the same vein as its debut hit ...

The music video for the 2018 BTS hit "Idol" has surpassed 900 million views on YouTube in the latest feat for the K-pop dynamo. "Idol," the main track of the seven-piece act's repackaged album "Love Yourself: Answer," hit the milestone at 5:59 a.m. on Sunday, according to Big Hit Music, the group's agency. When adding the views for another version of the song featuring Trinidadian-American rapp...

Baekhyun of EXO on Friday rolled out the remix version of “Bambi.” Titled “iScream Vol. 8: Bambi Remixes,” it is the eighth single of a remix music project and comes in two versions of the song. Producer/DJ BRLLNT reinterpreted the R&B tune into a future bass EDM number while h4dy remixed it into an upbeat garage rendition. “Bambi” is the lead track from the same-titled EP that came out o...