Japan's Oricon on Thursday named South Korean girl group ITZY the top-selling rookie of the first half of the year based on sales in the country, the band's agency said. Oricon announced the K-pop quintet as the best-selling rookie artist in the market for the Dec. 17-June 20 period, JYP Entertainment said. The Japanese pop music chart operator has annually released sales rankings by artists si...

Boy band T1419 will come out with a Spanish-language single on July 3, said agency MLD Entertainment on Wednesday. The single “When The Sun Goes Down” targets South America and will add momentum to the band’s growing popularity in the region, said the company. It will also be the first album originally made in Spanish from a K-pop band. The titular track is a tropical house dance tune abo...

Vying to create this year‘s summer anthem, singer Sunmi dropped a new digital single titled “Heart Burn” on Wednesday evening. This mark’s the songstress‘ first release since her 3rd EP, “1/6,” dropped last August. The singer’s digital single is a two-song release that includes the title track and the side track “Childhood.” Gushing about her new songs, the singer described “Heart Burn” as “a ...

Twice shared handwritten messages with fans to mark the fifth anniversary of its debut in Japan on Tuesday. Jihyo thanked fans for gifting the group with many good memories over the past five years and wished they could continue to be together. Tzuyu declared that Once, the band’s official fandom community is the most important thing to the group. “Let‘s ’celebrate‘ the fifth anniversa...

K-pop boy group SF9 will release a new EP next month, its management agency said Tuesday. The band's 11th EP titled "The Wave OF9" will hit music stores on July 13, FNC Entertainment said. It will be the first release from the group since its 10th EP "Rumination" out in November. Leading the album will be "Scream," a song full of summer vibes. The group debuted in October 2016 with nine member...

South Korean girl group aespa will headline this year's "Good Morning America" Summer Concert Series, an annual summer concert hosted by the famous U.S. morning talk show, the group's agency said Tuesday. Aespa will perform its hit songs "Next Level" and "Savage," as well as its first English single, "Life's Too Short," during the concert in New York's Central Park on July 8 (US time). It will a...

J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, will prerelease "More," a track on his upcoming debut solo album, this week, his agency said Tuesday. The song will hit music services at 1 p.m. Friday in Korea, when it will be midnight US EST, two weeks ahead of the release of his first single, "Jack in the Box," on July 15, according to Big Hit Music. J-Hope teased the upcoming album with ...

TVXQ! announced that it will put out a new single in Japan on Aug. 17. The duo has been touring six cities in the country under the title “The Garden” and greeted fans 21 times. On the last day of the fan meet marathon, the two told fans about the upcoming single “Utsuroi.” It has been about 2 1/2 years since the band performed in front of its fans, and the single comes almost two years s...

Min-hyuk not only wants to display his musical ability through his second LP, but he also expressed hopes of unveiling who “artist Huta” is. “I want to brand ‘Huta’ through my new album. Hopefully, more people would be able to know that there's an artist that does this kind of music.” Min-hyuk said his music can’t fit everyone's taste and definition of “good music.” “We all have different pref...

Dubbed a self-produced group in the K-pop industry, boy band Seventeen is composed of three units, each focusing on different areas of expertise: vocal, performance and hip-hop. The 13 bandmates have been penning their own songs, and member Woozi is widely known to be the group’s main producer. Holding most of the credit for the band’s discography, Woozi has proven his musical talent through Seve...

K-pop band Seventeen embarks on third world tour, ‘Be the Sun,’ with Seoul concerts over the weekend

BTS member V has visited Paris in an apparent move to start his individual activities after the K-pop boyband announced a plan to take a collective break. According to industry sources Monday, V, or also known as Kim Tae-hyung, is on a trip to France for a fashion show on the invitation of designer Hedi Slimane for Celine. V attended the fashion show at the Palais de Tokyo, together with Korean...

K-pop sensation BTS' new album, "Proof," has placed fourth on the US Billboard's main albums chart for this week, staying in the top 10 for two straight weeks since its debut, the chart's operator said. The anthology album fell three notches after hitting the top spot in the previous week, Billboard said Sunday (US time). Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US, measur...

J-Hope, a rapper and dancer of K-pop supergroup BTS, plans to release his solo album "Jack in the Box" next month, his agency said Sunday. J-hope will debut his first solo album on July 15 and drop a prerelease single Friday, according to Big Hit Music. He will be the first BTS member to go solo since the septet announced plans earlier this month to take a temporary break to focus on their indi...

Twice members showed support from the very early stage of the album’s making, Nayeon said, bringing food and gifts to her music video shooting and giving advice on all the productions, from album jacket options to music videos and dance practices. “It was really encouraging when the members advised me on parts that I found handling alone. There were many setbacks as I had to do what nine people ...