Tag: south korea

South Korea has a long history with music streaming – but the sector’s recent success is maybe not quite as robust as it first seems.

We already know that the superfandom around top K-Pop artists extends to buying albums rather than just streaming them.

'K-Pop Daebak', the flagship playlist for K-Pop music on Spotify, is being rebranded to 'K-Pop ON! (온)

That included strong growth for album sales, merchandising and licensing, and (unsurprisingly) concerts.

There will soon be a new player in the South Korean music-streaming market: video service Watcha has announced plans to add music as part of a relaunch.

It's a year since Spotify launched in South Korea, and the company says that it is now averaging 7.97bn monthly K-Pop streams worldwide.

The music industry knows all about YouTube's role in bringing K-Pop music to the world, from Psy's 'Gangnam Style' to the success of BTS and Blackpink.

Apple will abide by new rules in South Korea that ban app store owners from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems.

Slowly, and not always as surely as our industry would like, the live music industry is opening up again after its Covid-19 shutdowns.

Its search for "individuals with talent and passion who will be the next global superstar" really *is* global: the net is being cast far beyond South Korea.

South Korea may be the home of K-Pop superstars, but it’s making a strong play to also be the home of dead, AI-resuscitated singers too. We reported last December on TV shows based around dead artists ‘coming back’...

Justin Bieber has been the most popular music artist on YouTube by the metric of channel subscriptions for a while, but now he has been knocked off his perch.