South Korean singer-rapper Psy has put his name onto Billboard's main singles chart for "That That," his collaborative tune with Suga of K-pop supergroup BTS, the US music magazine said Tuesday. The main track from Psy's ninth full-length album "Psy 9th" debuted at No. 80 on this week's Hot 100 songs chart, Billboard said on Twitter. All charts will be updated on the company's website a day late...

TXT members hope to top Billboard 200 with fourth EP ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child.’

Kwon Eun-bi will hold her first standalone concert on June 18-19 in Seoul, agency Woollim Entertainment announced Monday. With the concert “Secret Doors,” she beckons fans to open new doors together. It has been almost a year since the former leader of IZ*ONE debuted as a solo musician with the EP “Open.” Her last album was the EP “Color” released in April. Last week she dropped a hin...

Le Sserafim, the first girl group from K-pop powerhouse Hybe, has recorded the most first-week sales of any debut album by girl groups in South Korea ever, the group's management agency said Monday. "Fearless," the group's first EP released last Monday, sold 307,450 copies in the first week of its release, Source Music said, citing data from Hanteo, a local album sales tracker. The opening-week...

Boy group NCT Dream will release "Beatbox," a repackage of its second full-length album, this month, the group's management agency said Monday. The new album will come out on May 30 and has a total of 15 tracks, including four new songs, SM Entertainment said. NCT Dream's second LP "Glitch Mode" was released on March 28 and sold 2.1 million copies in the first week of its release. The group de...

Preliminary shows to hit Tokyo and Chicago, ahead of ‘KCON 2022’ in LA in August

Boy band Golden Child will host its first US tour from June 24 to July 11, according to agency Woollim Entertainment on Friday. It will greet its fans and perform in 10 cities, including San Jose, California, Dallas, Atlanta and New York. In the meantime, it will drop its second single in Japan “Rata-Tat-Tat” on May 11. Over the weekend, it held a showcase in Japan and unveiled the single...

Idol trainee-turned-soloist talks about turning his back on idol ambitions and finding his musical direction

K-pop sensation BTS will release a new compilation album that includes three new tracks next month, its agency said Thursday. "Proof" is set to be released June 10, Big Hit Entertainment said in a statement through the group's Weverse page. The three-CD album will be BTS' first official release since "Butter," its second English single, in July last year, which sold nearly 2 million copies in i...

Girl group Class:y held a media showcase on Wednesday to bring out its debut EP “Class Is Over.” The seven bandmates are the finalists from survival show “My Teen Girl” and as the EP’s title suggests, are ready to jump into reality. Since the program wrapped up about two months ago, they were worried that viewers might have forgotten them, they said. “But after the first performanc...

The K-pop boy band forays into a new music style with its fourth EP “Flashback”

Ryeowook of Super Junior released his third solo EP “A Wild Rose” on Tuesday. It has been three years since his second solo EP “Drunk On Love.” “I am so happy to be promoting a solo album and returning to my main job,” he said in a series of Q&A statements released through his agency Label SJ. He had been busy appearing in musicals last year. The focus track from the seven-track EP is...

The upcoming full-length album by K-pop supergroup Seventeen has sold more than 1.74 million copies in preorders, a new record for the group, its management agency said Tuesday. Preorders for the band's fourth studio album "Face the Sun" began a week ago. It became the most-preordered album from Seventeen, surpassing 1.41 million copies for the band's previous release, ninth EP "Attacca." With...

Victon will come out with a new album by the end of this month, said agency IST Entertainment on Monday. It has been only four months since it released its third single, “Chronograph.” The single ranked among the top 10 of the iTunes top songs chart in four regions. The seven-piece act debuted in 2016, but it took three years before the band won its first trophy at a music chart program i...

Leading the album is the title track “Fearless,” which Chae-won described as “a funk-based alternative pop genre song that talks about marching forward without thinking about the past.” Eun-chae said she got emotional when she first heard the original track with the group’s voices, saying she couldn’t believe the song was making its way to the world. Garam went on to say that the powerful catwa...