The emergence of K-pop powerhouses’ “localized” groups such as VCHA, Katseye, and Dear Alice has sparked debates over whether ...
Some of the biggest names in music — including Jelly Roll — are hitting the live stage during the weekly “AML" concert series ...
Secondhand marketplace Bunjang revealed Thursday its 2024 trend report on K-pop merchandise for its global platform.
Nine K-pop acts have earned nominations for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), showcasing the genre's expanding global ...
The pop charts this week are full of milestones, from a trio of K-pop acts crashing the top of the album chart to the year's ...
On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 30), three K-pop (Korean pop) albums are in the top 10 concurrently for ...
K-pop powerhouse Seventeen will make history on Dec. 1 by becoming the first K-pop group to perform on ABC’s year-end special ...
K-pop's physical album sales surge raises alarms as environmental groups calculate the carbon footprint of CDs.
In an industry first, K-pop CD sales surpassed 100 million units in 2023, marking a 50% increase from the previous year despite the dominance of digital streaming. However, this milestone has ...
Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. K-pop is everywhere these days, but that wasn’t the case when Vivian Yoon was growing up in the 90s and 2000s. She listened ...
Do you need to be Korean to be a K-pop artist? That's the question Bora Kim wanted to answer when she created EXP Edition. What started as an academic assignment soon developed into the world's ...
As more K-Pop and J-Pop hits are imported from Western songwriters, it creates growing roles for local lyricists to translate the lyrics — and lucrative opportunities. By Kristin Robinson Senior ...