Stray Kids are headlining Lollapalooza Paris on Friday. The eight-piece boy band will become the first K-pop act to headline the French music festival. Stray Kids are set to take the stage on the first of the three-day run, performing in front of some 65,000 daily concertgoers at the Hippodrome ParisLongchamp in Paris. Other headlining artists include Spanish singer Rosalia on Saturday and American rapper Kendrick Lamar on Sunday. Lollapalooza Paris is the French edition of the annual concert se

K-pop July 21, 2023

Recharged with youthful energy, K-pop band Mirae on Wednesday returned with its fifth EP, "Boys will be Boys." The band held a media showcase event that afternoon in Seoul just before the album release. This marks the seven-member group's return with a new release since with its fourth EP "Ourturn," which had marked the start of the group's new "Boy" series. With "Boys will be Boys," Mirae members said they turned away from the "cosmic fresh

K-pop July 20, 2023

Starbucks is collaborating with the world's biggest girl group Blackpink this summer. Starbucks Korea on Thursday announced that the brand has teamed up with Blackpink to release limited edition merchandise, beverage and food items this summer. The latest collaboration project will be launched in the Asia-Pacific region, with the drinks and merchandise items available in nine regions in Asia, including South Korea and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, bakery menu items will only be sold in South Korea.

Consumer July 20, 2023

The single "Super Shy" is taking NewJeans to new career highs on global music charts. Released July 7, the song entered Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 66 in the latest chart release, marking the quintet's highest spot on the list. This marks the third Hot 100 song from NewJeans, following "OMG" and "Ditto," which peaked at No. 74 and No. 82, respectively, on the US singles chart. The song, a prerelease from the act's upcoming second EP "Get Up," also came in a

K-pop July 19, 2023

K-pop band Tomorrow X Together and American pop trio Jonas Brothers released a remix of their collaborative single "Do It Like That" on Wednesday. The remix, which the the Korean band's agency Big Hit Music of  described as a Jersey Club genre infused with UK drill beats, came out at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 days following the joint single's release. The new edition, peppered with the UK garage-style electronic piano sounds, offers a different pleasure to the ear from the upbeat an

K-pop July 19, 2023

Incheon is in for a wave of rock nostalgia in August with the annual Pentaport festival bringing in some legendary names this year. Slated to take place on Aug. 4-6 at Moonlight Festival Park in Songdo district, 2023 Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival is set to be headlined by several long-celebrated bands over its three-day run. The first day will be led by Japanese punk rockers Ellegarden, which recently ended its 16-year hiatus with a reunion album and a national tour in Japan. Ellegarden will b

Performance July 18, 2023

South Korean musician B.I is embarking on his first European concert tour, "Love or Die," in September, 131 Label said Tuesday. Between September and October, the rapper-producer will hustle through 16 European cities with his gigs. Kicking off in Utrecht in Netherlands on Sept. 19, B.I will take the series next to Luxembourg City, France's Paris, Spain's Barcelona, Switzerland's Zurich and Poland's Warsaw through September. In the next month, he will perform in Estonia's Tallinn, Finl

K-pop July 18, 2023

Boy band Enhypen will join the nation's biggest singers and bands at the 2023 K Global Heart Dream Awards next month, organizers said Monday. In addition to Enhypen, rookie band Boynextdoor and co-ed quartet Kard will also join the lineup for the event on Aug. 10 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena -- also known as KSPO Dome -- located inside the Olympic Park in Seoul. Solo singers Kim Jae-hwan, Paul Kim and Lee Seung-yoon were also on the latest list of performers that was released. Heart Drea

K-pop July 17, 2023

BTS' J-Hope continues to unveil new solo projects even as he serves the military, heralding a new edition of his solo album next month. The group's agency Big Hit Music on Monday announced that J-Hope will drop "Jack In The Box (Hope Edition)" on Aug. 18. The forthcoming album is a renewed and physical version of the rapper's first solo album "Jack In The Box," which had only been released digitally in the form of "Weverse Album" in July 2022. The LP

K-pop July 17, 2023

BTS' Jungkook has topped US and Japanese music charts with his new solo song "Seven." Following its release on Friday, "Seven (feat. Latto)" soared straight to Spotify's Daily Top Song Global Chart, becoming the first K-pop solo song to enter the chart at No. 1. Spotify, the world's biggest streaming music platform, said the song took the top place with 15,995,378 streams in just a day, an all-time high set by a new release. Along with "Seven," the tune's instrument

K-pop July 16, 2023

K-pop boy band Infinite is returning as a full group this month, amid the rush of veteran boy band comebacks. The band's agency, Infinite Co., on Friday heralded the six-piece's long-awaited comeback for July 31 with a poster in black and gold. The sextet's return comes five years after it released its last album, its third LP "Top Seed," in 2018. This is the first time the group is getting together following its departure from its former agency Woolim Entertainment unde

K-pop July 7, 2023

Tomorrow X Together has unveiled a collaboration with US pop group Jonas Brothers. The K-pop quintet on Friday afternoon dropped its collaborative single with Jonas Brothers, "Do It Like That." The song and its music video was released globally at 1 p.m. The rhythmical dance pop tune gives out summer vibes as it spells out the enchanting feelings of fledgling love. The band, also known as TXT, said via Big Hit Music on Friday that "it will be the best summer song of 2023." &q

K-pop July 7, 2023

Jimin of the world's biggest K-pop band BTS is setting new records as a Korean solo artist on Pandora Music. Jimin's first breakthrough on the American music streaming platform came on June 27 when he reached 500,000 monthly listeners as the first K-pop soloist to do so. The feat came around three months after his official solo debut in March with his album "Face." The number soared to 594,000 listeners on June 30, surpassing BTS' 571,000 and setting a new all-time high

K-pop July 6, 2023

Japan's Oricon named Le Sserafim as the nation's top-selling rookie artist of the first half of the year. Oricon, the biggest music chart provider in Japan, on Thursday announced that the five-piece topped album sales among the new artists in the local market dated between Dec. 12 and June 11. Since 2018, Oricon has been releasing the ranking based on the compiled sales of the artist's physical singles and albums, as well as streams, Blu-rays and DVDs. "Le Sserafim logged sal

K-pop July 6, 2023

Boy band Seventeen's 10th EP, "FML," has become K-pop's top-selling album of all time. "FML" recently surpassed 6.2 million copies in sales, the group's agency Pledis Entertainment said Wednesday, citing data from the album's distributor YG Plus. It reached the feat two months since its release on April 24. This is the first time that any K-pop album has reached 6 million copies in sales. Seventeen broke the record of 5.03 million copies set by BTS' 2

K-pop July 5, 2023