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Hit ‘Replay’: K-pop boy group Golden Child releases sixth mini-album ‘Aura’
Woolim Entertainment’s boy group Golden Child dropped their sixth mini-album “Aura” on Monday, led by the track “Replay.” The album has six tracks total, with members Jangjun and Tag helping write one of its B-sides, “Purpose.” This is the group’s first domestic release without…
· Daniel Anderson
K-pop boy group Omega X announce dates for US segment of ‘Connect: Don’t Give Up’ tour
K-pop boy group Omega X announced the dates for the U.S. segment of their upcoming world tour on Monday. The Spire Entertainment group will perform in 12 cities across the U.S. starting in early October in Boston and concluding in Los Angeles in late October. In September, they…
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K-pop boy group The Boyz release ‘Timeless’ music video ahead of upcoming mini-album ‘Be Aware’
IST Entertainment’s K-pop boy group The Boyz dropped a music video for “Timeless” on Monday ahead of the release for their upcoming mini-album “Be Aware,” which is due out on Aug. 16. “Timeless” was written by members Sangyeon, Hyunjae, Q, New and Sunwoo. A tracklist for “Be…
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K-pop soloist AleXa announces dates for US tour
K-pop soloist AleXa has revealed new information about her upcoming U.S. tour. The ZB label artist will travel to eight stops, starting with Jersey City, New Jersey, on Oct. 18 and concluding in Los Angeles on Oct. 30, with a stop in her home state of Oklahoma along the way.…
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Move over, Apple — K-pop soloist Yena releases newest ‘Smartphone’ with sophomore EP
K-pop soloist Yena is back with her sophomore EP, “Smartphone.” The EP, which was released today, features five songs in total. Yena co-wrote three of the EP’s tracks, including the title track “Smartphone.” “Sophomore” is a follow-up to Yena’s solo debut EP “Smiley.” Yena…
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K-pop girl group Kep1er flies into Japanese debut with music video ‘Wing Wing’
K-pop girl group Kep1er dropped their Japanese debut music video “Wing Wing” on Tuesday. Their first Japanese single “Fly-Up” will be released on Sept. 7. In June, the group released their summer comeback EP “Doublast,” which was led by the title track “Up!” The nine-member girl…
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K-pop boy group Seventeen teams up with UNESCO for youth education campaign
K-pop group Seventeen and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) announced the launch of their global campaign #GoingTogether. The endeavor aims to raise awareness about the future of youth education, marking the second time Seventeen has worked with the KNCU after…
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K-pop girl group Nmixx covers Rainbow’s 2009 hit ‘Kiss’
Nmixx released a cover Sunday of the 2009 song “Kiss” by former K-pop girl group Rainbow. In partnership with Warner Music Korea, the cover is part of an ongoing series on YouTube called “Re:born Project,” which features various Korean artists’ renditions of hit songs. Nmixx and…
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K-pop boy group Seventeen’s repackage album ‘Sector 17’ lands at No. 4 on Billboard 200
Billboard announced yesterday that K-pop boy group Seventeen reached their highest peak yet at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 for their repackage album “Sector 17.” It is their highest weekly album chart entry and the fourth overall for the group, now making them the first Korean…
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K-pop girl group NewJeans releases debut EP and music video ‘Cookie’
Hybe subsidiary label ADOR (All Doors One Room) released the debut EP of their new girl group NewJeans today and dropped a new music video for the track “Cookie.” The new track, which is the first digital wide release for the group, is also the fourth and final addition to their…
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K-pop soloist Yuju and rapper Big Naughty team up for new single ‘Evening’
K-pop soloist and former Gfriend member Yuju dropped her new single “Evening” in collaboration with South Korean rapper Big Naughty today. This is Yuju’s latest music project since her solo debut mini-album “Rec.,” which was released under Kang Daniel’s Konnect Entertainment in…
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K-pop boy group ATBO make their debut with EP ‘The Beginning: 開花’
K-pop boy group ATBO made their debut Wednesday with the EP “The Beginning: 開花” and the title track music video “Monochrome.” The seven-member group, which consists of Oh Junseok, Ryu Junmin, Bae Hyunjun, Seok Rakwon, Jeong Seunghwan, Kim Yeonkyu and Won Bin, was formed with the…
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K-pop soloist Nicole returns after 8 years with new single ‘You.F.O’
K-pop soloist Nicole, a former member of the girl group Kara, released her new single “You.F.O” today. Aside from her YouTube channel “Cole Time” and a guest appearance on K-pop artist Eric Nam’s Dive Studios podcast last year, Nicole has mostly stayed away from the K-pop…
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K-pop boy group Younite soars into summer with comeback track ‘Aviator’
K-pop boy group Younite released their second EP “Youni-Q” on Monday, led by the title track and music video “Aviator.” The EP has five songs, with member Dey having co-written all of them. “Youni-Q” is a follow-up to the group's debut and first EP “Youni-Birth,” which was…
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Rookie K-pop rock band Xdinary Heroes greet summer with first EP ‘Hello, World’
K-pop rock band Xdinary Heroes released their first EP “Hello, World” today with the title track music video “Test Me.” The writing and composition credits for the six-track EP go to each of the group’s six members: Gunil, Jungsu, O.de, Gaon, Junhan and Jooyeon. An instrumental…
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K-pop boy group Monsta X ‘All In’ as headliners for inaugural Nickelodeon music festival
K-pop boy group Monsta X and The Kid Laroi were announced as headliners yesterday for Nickelodeon’s first-ever music festival. Nickfest will take place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Oct. 22 and 23. Other featured performers include Beabadoobee, Tiffany Day, Joshua…
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K-pop girl group StayC knows ‘We Need Love’ and drops new comeback ‘Beautiful Monster’
K-pop girl group StayC dropped their newest single “We Need Love” today, led by the title track “Beautiful Monster.” The single features three other songs: “I Like It,” “Love” and a remix of their title track “Run2U” from their EP from earlier this year, “Young-luv.com.” StayC…
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K-pop hitmaker Gen Neo drops new single ‘Blame It On Me’
Singaporean singer-songwriter Gen Neo, 33, released his new single “Blame It On Me” on Thursday. The South Korea-based composer and producer, who was born Liang Genrong, is behind K-pop acts such as Got7, Gugudan, 4Minute, Super Junior and f(x). “Blame It On Me” kickstarts a…
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K-pop girl group Apink debuts first subunit Chobom with single ‘Copycat’
Apink members Chorong and Bomi debuted their first subunit today, Chobom, with the release of their single “Copycat.” The subunit’s debut single includes two other tracks, “Oscar” and “Feel Something.” The release is the group’s first since their anniversary album five months…
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AB6IX concert review: Becoming an ABNEW and K-pop fan anew
K-pop boy group AB6IX concluded their latest tour "AB_New Area" at the beginning of July. In June, the four members kicked off their tour in Seoul before they headed off to Tokyo and six cities in the U.S. AB6IX’s Seattle show lasted around 80 minutes, with a 10-track setlist…
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&TEAM
&TEAM is HYBE's first homegrown Japanese boy group -- a localization play that plants the HYBE system directly inside the world's second-biggest music market rather than exporting Korean acts into it.
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2PM
2PM invented the 'beast idol' -- JYP's masculine, acrobatic counter-brand that opened the Japanese arena market for K-pop boy groups and made Thai member Nichkhun one of the first non-Korean idols engineered as a pan-Asian sales asset.
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aespa
SM's flagship 4th-gen group turned streaming dominance into arena-scale global touring — the clearest sign K-pop's next tier can headline, not just chart.
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AKMU
AKMU are the sibling duo who won K-Pop Star and picked YG on their own terms -- 'The Nation's Siblings' whose songwriting-first model gave YG a rare non-idol prestige asset that outlasted a full 12-year label run.
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BABYMONSTER
YG built BABYMONSTER as its designated BLACKPINK successor, and the pressure is the point -- the label bet its next decade of revenue on a seven-member group that had to shatter rookie sales records just to justify the comparison.
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BIGBANG
BigBang were the original architects of K-pop as a global export business -- the first mainstream Korean hip-hop idols whose stadium tours and merch empire proved a Korean act could out-earn Western pop stars and became the template YG monetized for a decade.
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BLACKPINK
The genre's biggest girl group returned as a group after years of solo dominance — testing whether K-pop's Western peak was a moment or a plateau. 'GO' answered.
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BOYNEXTDOOR
BOYNEXTDOOR is rapper Zico's KOZ Entertainment absorbed into the HYBE machine -- an artist-founded label that HYBE bought and turned into a hit factory, showing how HYBE grows by acquiring creative shops, not just building them.
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BTS
BTS didn't just come back — they re-coronated K-pop's top tier. 'Arirang' fuses Korean folk roots with global pop, and the tour proved the machine HYBE built scales to stadiums worldwide.
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BTS
BTS connects to HYBE, the company behind BTS, Weverse, albums, merch, memberships, tickets, and concerts.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:035760
CJ ENM
CJ ENM is behind TV, music, film, award shows, and major cultural exports that shape what people watch.
Company · Korea · KRX:352820
HYBE
One of the layers behind BTS, SEVENTEEN, TXT.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:035900
JYP Entertainment
JYP is tied to groups that drive albums, tours, subscriptions, merch, and international fan activity.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:041510
SM Entertainment
SM is tied to idol groups, tours, fan clubs, and the long-running system behind some of K-pop's most recognizable acts.
Company · Korea · KOSDAQ:122870
YG Entertainment
YG connects global K-pop attention to touring, brand deals, fan demand, and artist-centered entertainment revenue.
Company · Korea · KRX:251270
Netmarble
Netmarble is Korea's mobile-game powerhouse that turns pop-culture IP into games — from BTS titles to Marvel — and is one of HYBE's largest shareholders, linking K-pop and gamin...
HYBE · K-pop · KRX:352820
A BTS comeback is not just songs. It’s albums, merch, tickets, and Weverse.
A BTS comeback can start with one stream on your phone, then turn into a fan-club sign-up, merch order, livestream ticket, and more time spent inside Weverse.