Stray Kids took home the award for best K-pop at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards for its latest single “S-Class," on Tuesday. “We’ve been making music ever since the start of our career, but to receive this award just really means a lot to us,” said Bang Chan of Stray Kids on the stage to receive the award at the event in Newark, New Jersey. “We want to thank our fans for being so supportive. We have so much to show you guys so please look forward to us in the

V of BTS on Wednesday released the music video for "Blue," a track from his first solo album “Layover.” This marks the fourth music video of a song on the new album. The music video was filmed in black-and-white to portray a profound melancholic mood throughout the clip, according to Big Hit Music. At the beginning of the music video, V appears talking on the phone with a worried face while driving. He then wanders around desperately looking for someone. “Blue”

    Seventeen expanded its Asia tour, adding three more cities to the itinerary, announced agency Pledis Entertainment Tuesday. It will visit Bangkok, Thailand on Dec. 23, Bulacan, the Philippines on Jan. 13, 2024 and Macao Jan. 20-21, expanding the tour -- “‘Follow’ to Asia” -- to nine cities and 18 concerts. The 13 members kicked off the tour in Seoul on July 21 and went live at Tokyo Dome last week drawing about 100,000 audience members in two days. Seun

Hur Young-ji of Kara launched her solo career on Tuesday with single "Toi Toi Toi." Hur's solo debut comes nine years after she started her singing career as a member of popular girl group Kara in 2014. "Toi Toi Toi," a German expression wishing luck to performing artists, was suggested by her sister, Hur said. "It's like 'fighting!' (in Korean). My sister recommended it after hearing all three songs and it sounded like a perfect match. With the singl

K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together will perform its new single, “Back for More,” with the Brazilian pop artist Anitta at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards this Wednesday. “Back for More” is one of the singles in the group’s upcoming third LP, “The Name Chapter: Freefall,” which is scheduled to drop on Oct. 13. The single will be performed for the first time on stage at the award ceremony. “We think performing at an award ceremony in which many music

K-pop girl group Twice has set off on a tour in Europe for the first time since its debut. Their first stop in Europe was London for a two-day concert last week, which was part of its fifth world tour, “Ready to Be.” The next concert was held in Paris on Monday. The set list for this year’s world tour includes mega-hit singles such as “Set Me Free,” which landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, “Alcohol-Free,” “Talk that Talk,” and English song

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  NCT127 will hold a showcase on Oct. 6 to introduce its fifth studio album “Fact Check,” announced label SM Entertainment on Monday. The showcase, dubbed “A Night of Festival,” will be held in Seoul on the day of release and will be broadcast live across the world through its YouTube channel. The band will perform the lead single of the same title for the first time and share episodes from putting together the album as well as its plans to promote the album. The nin

YG’s boy group Treasure is set to release Japanese versions of “Bona Bona,” the title track of its latest LP, and “Move,” the single of the group’s first unit, T5. The group announced the release during its fan meeting held in Kobe, Japan, from Friday to Sunday. Treasure performed the Japanese versions of these tracks at the fan meeting. The group is currently on its Japan fan meet tour, “Hello Again,” which began on Sep. 1 in Fukuoka to meet with

B.I is will drop the second part of his “Love or Loved” album on Nov. 10, according to 131 Label on Monday. “Love or Loved” is B.I’s extensive global album project that began with the five-track EP “Love or Loved Part. 1” in November last year. The new album revolves around the word “loved,” different from the previous one which revolved around ongoing “love” stories. B.I will drop one of the singles in the new album on Sep. 29 an

Through its new album, "Sun Seeker," boy band Cravity tells its fans to follow their sun and go toward where their hearts gravitate. Ahead of the new album release on Monday, the nine-piece group on Thursday held a joint press interview with local media in Seoul and introduced the new album. According to the members, it continues the story they had rolled out through its previous album, "Master: Piece," released in March. "With the last album, we asked our listeners, �

The debut solo album by V, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, sold about 1.67 million copies on the day of its release, breaking the first-day sales record for K-pop soloists, data showed Saturday. According to the data from Hanteo Chart, a leading local tracker of physical album sales, "Layover" sold 1,672,138 copies Friday, when it was released, setting a new first-day sales record for K-pop soloists. It also marked the biggest first-week sales of an album by a K-pop soloist, with the

Tomorrow X Together’s upcoming third studio album has sold 2.35 million units in preorders, according to distributor YG Plus on Friday. Preorders for LP “The Name Chapter: Freefall” started eight days ago, and already surpassed those of the group's previous album and fifth EP, “The Name Chapter: Temptation,” which sold 2.34 million preorders. The third LP is due out Oct. 13. Next week, the band will give fans a taste of the album, dropping “Back for More&rdqu

K-pop artist Yuju is dropping the new digital single “Dalala” on Sept. 20. Konnect Entertainment announced her return Friday by releasing a teaser poster for the upcoming second digital single on Yuju's social media. The teaser poster shows Yuju holding a cassette tape with butterflies all around. Her return comes six months since her second EP, titled “O.” Yuju debuted with the now-defunct K-pop girl group GFriend in 2015 and expanded her career as a solo artist in

V describes the process of bringing up his first solo album “Layover” as one where he finds his true self. “I think you would be able to find a new trait of V in this album. I was a flashy person onstage, but for this album, I tried to minimize this flashiness and rather show my true color. I started with vocal lessons all over again, during which I learned a lot about myself and tried to improve my weaknesses. I put in everything I like and do well in this album,” V said