NCT Dream will go live again in Seoul on June 2-3, announced label SM Entertainment on Wednesday. The band will greet its fans at the encore concert for the first time in seven months after its previous gig in the Korean capital. The last day’s performance will be broadcast live online. The seven-member act returned to Seoul on Sunday after its first US tour came to an end last week in Seattle. The American leg of the tour brought the bandmates to seven cities across the

The streak of comebacks by girl groups looks likely to continue in the month of May as some of the biggest female K-pop idols are gearing up for new releases. On the front line is Le Sserafim releasing its first full-length album “Unforgiven” on the first day of May. Le Sserafim will make a grandiose entrance hosting its own show that will be aired worldwide simultaneously through Mnet's and M2’s YouTube channels, as well as in CGV theaters, on the day of its album drop. T

Melon, a local music streaming service, said Wednesday it has created a forest named after the K-pop supergroup BTS as part of its eco-friendly project. Located in Nanji Han River Park in western Seoul, the BTS Forest consists of three fringe trees and 400 sacred bamboo trees, the service said, adding the trees were bought with money donated by its subscribers. According to the service, when subscribers select their favorite singer's name on the project homepage, 2 percent of their monthly

    Seventeen broke the record for sales during the first week with its tenth EP, “FML,” according to agency Pledis Entertainment on Tuesday. The EP sold more than 3.99 million units on its first day, replacing the previous record set by BTS, whose fourth studio album from 2020 logged 3.37 million in the first week. The mini album is the first in K-pop history to sell more than 3 million copies in one day. The new album surpassed 4.64 million in pre-orders, another rec

K-pop boy group Seventeen is ready to face the hardships of life as they returned full of energy with their 10th EP, “FML,” on Monday. The 13-member group dived deep into the difficulties the youth face in their life journey and decoded them into healthy and positive music that embraces a message of hope and encouragement. “F*ck My Life,” shouts the group through the first titular track of the new album. But the track is actually the opposite of how pessimistic the title

The BTS member to start his first global solo tour, make solo US TV show debut

Original Big Bang member returns Tuesday with new solo album featuring artists from Blackpink, BTS

Stray Kids will make a comeback in early June, according to a local media report on Monday. JYP Entertainment confirmed the news following the report. It will be about eight months since its last EP “Maxident,” which notched the top spot on Billboard 200. It was the band’s second EP to claim the No. 1 spot on the main albums chart after its previous EP “Oddinary,” and the eight-piece act became the second K-pop artist to top the chart more than once, after BTS. The

Boy band's 10th EP "FML" racks up record-breaking 4.64 million sales in preorders

Lil Moshpit and Fleeky Bang challenge themselves to different music styles

BTS' Suga has taken over the Japanese music charts with his latest solo album "D-Day." Dropped under his alias Agust D, "D-Day" and its tracks landed in the top tiers of Japan's Oricon charts. The album soared to No. 1 of Oricon's daily album ranking after its release on Friday, with over 110,000 copies sold inside Japan on its first day. The album's title track, "Haegeum," landed at No. 3 on the daily digital singles ranking, with the album'

Superstar Suga of boy group BTS has recorded the biggest first-day sales as a K-pop soloist with his official debut solo album, "D-Day," according to sources in the music industry Saturday. The sources said the album sold over 1,070,000 copies in the first day following its release under Suga's other stage name, Agust D, on Friday, citing data from Hanteo Chart, a local album sales tracker. The record was previously set by his bandmate Jimin last month with "Face," whi

On Friday, the Korean Army commented on a media report that claimed it gave J-Hope of BTS certain privileges when he entered the boot camp. A local media asserted that six cars were allowed into the camp in Gangwon Province on Tuesday instead of one, as announced by the military. Access passes were given to the artist’s entourage in advance while other people were only given one on the site after confirming notice of enlistment. There have been prior consultations with his label to preven

BTS’ Suga finally dropped his first official solo album, “D-Day,” on Friday under his soloist name, Agust D. The full-length album comes seven years after Suga began his solo career with his first self-titled mixtape, “Agust D,” in August 2016. His second mixtape, “D-2” was unveiled in 2020, led by chart-topping single “Daechwita.” “D-Day” comprises 10 tracks, including lead track “Haegeum” alongside the prerelease tra

Eight of the top 10 bestselling albums worldwide last year were K-pop albums, a global album sales chart showed. According to the Global Album Sales Chart 2022 released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide, albums by K-pop acts swept eight of the top 10 positions on the chart. The IFPI Global Album Sales Chart ranks the biggest albums of the year based on the number of units sold across all