[Today’s K-pop] BTS to perform new song at ‘Tonight Show’

BTS will appear on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” about a year after the group’s last visit, next week.
 
The band floated a teaser trailer on the show’s social media channel on Wednesday in the US in which RM said: “We’re coming back to ‘The Tonight Show.’ Make sure to tune in!”
 
The septet will perform “Butter” and upcoming song “Permission to Dance” on July 13 and 14, respectively. The timetable was announced with a short video snippet that showed a person putting a chunk of butter into a warm frying pan and checking the boxes off for each song.
 
On Friday, BTS releases the new single album “Butter” that consists of the two songs. It will discuss new music in a livestream later in the day and unveil a performance clip of the new song for the first time.

NCT127 to release new music in September 

NCT127 is returning with a studio album in September, the bandmates announced in a live broadcast Wednesday.
 
During an online fan meeting to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the group’s debut, they told viewers they will be releasing a third full-length album. The nine-member subunit of NCT has been busy putting out new music,including its second Japanese EP “Loveholic” as well as an LP as NCT, but it has been a year and four months since the repack of second LP “NCT#127 Neo Zone: The Final Round.”
 
Second LP “NCT#127 Neo Zone” was the band’s first million-seller, with over 1.43 million units sold, making NCT127 the first subunit to notch 1 million. It not only topped major music charts in Korea, but also ranked in the top five in nine Billboard charts.
 
The band has recently been shooting a reality show titled “Analog Trip” that will be unveiled through YouTube later this year. The first season of the show from 2019 featured six members of TVXQ and Super Junior.

NCT Dream’s 1st LP repack sells over 1m

NCT Dream’s “Hello Future,” a repackaged album of its first studio album “Hot Sauce,” had sold over 1.19 million units as of Wednesday, announced label s Entertainment on Thursday.
 
The repack was released June 28, following the success of the LP that rolled out in May, selling over 2 million. It added three new songs, including the title track, to the tracks from the LP.
 
According to a local report on the K-pop industry that came out last week, the size of physical album sales grew 34 percent from the same period last year, and NCT Dream was riding the strongest momentum.

Blackpink's Jisoo to venture into acting

Jisoo of Blackpink unveiled her profile pictures as an actor via label YG Entertainment on Thursday.
 
Wearing a white strappy top, she gazes serenely into the camera striking different poses. She also shared the pictures on her own Instagram account.
 
Jisoo is currently shooting a cable TV drama series tentatively titled “Snowdrop.” It will be her first attempt at acting, and she will be the female lead opposite Jung Haein in the drama set in late 1980s Seoul. It is set to air late this year.
 
The idol recently was featured in a photo call of French house Dior for its 2022 cruise collection, donning white head-to-toe as a representative for Korea. Dior named her one of its global ambassadors for both fashion and beauty in March.

By Hwang You-mee
(glamazon@heraldcorp.com)