Spotify records are falling like dominoes this week. Jungkook from BTS has set a new milestone on the streaming service.
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TikTok’s BTS anniversary challenge gets 400m views in a week
A week in to TikTok’s #10yrswithBTS campaign with K-Pop stars BTS, it has already notched up more than 400m video views.
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TikTok goes big on #10yrsWithBTS anniversary celebration
BTS may be on hiatus, but that doesn’t mean the marketing activity around the K-Pop stars stops.
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Hybe chairman warns of challenges facing the K-Pop industry
Hybe and its fellow K-Pop companies combined still only account for “less than 2% of the revenue shares of the worldwide music industry”
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Taylor Swift regains top spot from BTS in IFPI global artist chart
It’s annual-awards time for global music body the IFPI, which is staggering its rankings for artists, tracks and albums over several days.
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9 notable moments for K-Pop music in 2022
Today our focus is on K-Pop: the music and artists of South Korea whose horizons were truly global in the music industry of 2022.
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Spotify caught in the middle of BTS and Blackpink fandom-feud
Last week’s release of Spotify Wrapped 2022 generated the usual mountain of social-media buzz – but also some controversy.
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K-pop’s global rise: a series of well-planned explosions rather than a single big bang
This article from Last.fm is Partner Content. Most eruptions in pop music happen over a long period of time rather than immediately. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ was Elvis’s first US number 1, […]
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BTS Busan livestream attracted more than 49m viewers
Despite premature reports of the demise of K-Pop titans BTS, the group returned for a stadium concert in their homeland this weekend
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MTV’s 2022 VMAs to include ‘Metaverse Performance’ award
Ever alive to pop culture trends, MTV has added a new category to its Video Music Awards (VMAs) this year: ‘Best Metaverse Performance’.
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Stationhead adds channels for BTS, Seventeen and Nicki Minaj
Stationhead is the user-generated radio startup tapping Spotify and Apple Music APIs to help people launch their own radio stations.
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Hybe share price falls after BTS announce hiatus plans
The announcement came in a YouTube ‘dinner party’ video. “The problem with K-Pop and the whole ‘idol’ system is that they don’t give you time to mature.”