Canto-pop singer Eason Chan Yik-shun was the most-streamed artist in Hong Kong for the fifth consecutive year, streaming service Spotify revealed this week.Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jay Chou was second, K-pop giants BTS were third, US singer-songwrit...
Just what is K-pop exactly? As South Korean pop artists receive increased global recognition, and more non-Korean artists get in the game, the idea of “K-pop” is becoming harder to define.“K-pop” as a term has been popularised by English-language media...
Singer Amber Liu has decided it’s time to learn to take care of herself, more than a decade after she first got her start in K-pop girl group f(x) in 2009. “I’m actually trying to sleep these days,” she tells the Post. “I put my phone on ‘do not distur...
When former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant watched then eight-year-old Yoyoka Soma replicate the complicated drum fills on Good Times, Bad Times, from the group’s debut 1969 album, he said: “Well, I know where she can get a job.” Plant’s praise for ...
When it comes to the experimental side of K-pop that helped the South Korean music scene gain worldwide acclaim, few are doing it more ambitiously than NCT.An act with 23 members – and counting – launched by media company SM Entertainment, NCT released...
By Dong Sun-hwaWith the meteoric rise of digital streaming services, there seems to be no reason to buy physical albums these days.But sales of K-pop albums have defied the trend. Last year, total sales of the 400 most popular albums reached 25 million...
South Korean pop phenomena BTS have made history as the first K-pop act to be nominated for a major Grammy award, with their 2020 hit single Dynamite in the running for best pop duo/group performance.Despite the historic achievement, the Recording Acad...
Fans chant the names of their idols when K-pop groups take the stage at concerts (at least in pre-Covid-19 times they did).For many people who aren’t diehard fans though, the names being heard may come as a surprise, as they’re not their well-known sta...
The end of 2020 is almost here, but this year in K-pop is not even close to slowing down. Each week brings new music and new artists, and we recently saw the arrival of the buzzworthy StayC.A six-member girl group featuring members Sumin, Sieun, Isa, S...
Exo member Xiumin is set to return to public life on December 6 after the K-pop star served in the South Korean military for 18 months.SM Entertainment, the South Korean company that manages Exo, said Xiumin was on his final leave and would not be retu...