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BLACKPINK Drop Highly Anticipated New Record The Album: Stream
K-pop giants BLACKPINK have finally released one of the most anticipated full-lengths of the season, The Album. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The Album follows the group’s 2019 breakout EP Kill This Love, the title track of which helped break them wide for American audiences. The foursome’s debut full-length, the Japanese-language BLACKPINK in Your Area, arrived in 2018. This new effort has already been dominating the Billboard charts thanks to singles like the Selena Gomez collaboration “Ice Cream”, which earned BLACKPINK a career-best No. 13 spot. That beat their previous peak of No. 33, which is where both The Album track “How You Like That” and the Lady Gaga collaboration “Sour Candy” off the pop star’s Chromatica. The former also took home Song of Summer at the 2020 MTV...
BTS Perform “Black Swan” as Tonight Show Residency Rolls On: Watch
On Wednesday night, BTS continued their world domination weeklong residency on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This time, the beloved Bangtan Boys served as the episode’s lead guest, as they participated in a dance competition and sat down for an interview with Fallon, in addition to performing their song “Black Swan”. Night one of their residency saw the K-pop boyband deliver “Dynamite” in front of the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, while Tuesday’s “Home” performance was built around a cozy sleepover theme. As for Wednesday night’s performance of “Black Swan”, the boys took BTS Army to church as they set danced amid the shrubbery of a dilapidated cathedral. Earlier in the episode, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook faced off against Fallon in a competition c...
BTS Perform “Home” as Tonight Show Takeover Continues: Watch
BTS launched their weeklong takeover of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, and did so with a “Dynamite” bang. On Tuesday, our favorite Bangtan Boys made sure to keep the late-night party going by performing “Home” from their 2019 EP, Map of the Soul: Persona. Whereas yesterday’s performance of “Dynamite” saw BTS deliver a rousing choreographed routine in front of the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, the group kept things much more chill on Tuesday night. They stayed inside, threw on their pajamas, and had themselves a good ol’ fashioned sleepover. Catch the replay below. “BTS Week” continues tomorrow, September 30th, with the K-pop boyband serving as the episode’s lead guest. This residency comes on the heels of BTS becoming the first all-South Kore...
BLACKPINK Reveal Tracklist for The Album
With only days to go until The Album is unleashed, BLACKPINK have revealed the eight-song tracklist. Along with the Selena Gomez duet “Ice Cream”, The Album features one other eye-catching collaboration: Cardi B will be joining Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa on “Bet You Wanna”. The record-breaking lead single, “How You Like That” — which amassed 82 million views in 24 hours — will jump-start the listening experience. Other track titles include “Pretty Savage”, “Lovesick Girls”, “Crazy Over You”, “Love to Hate Me”, and “You Never Know”. Editors’ Picks The Album arrives officially on October 2nd, and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2019, BLACKPINK shared the Kill This Love EP, which included one of our favorite songs of the year. Since then, South Korea’s m...
BTS Become Multi-Millionaires After Label Big Hit Goes Public
While the members of BTS have already amassed a large fortune from their chart-topping singles and sold-out stadium tours, today the K-pop superstars added tens of millions of more dollars to their collective net worth. Their latest influx of cash isn’t due to streaming royalties of ticket sales, however. Instead, BTS’s new-found “multi-millionaire” status can be attributed to their record label Big Hit Entertainment going public. According to CNN Business, Big Hit is South Korea’s biggest stock market listing in three years. The company is selling shares at $115 each, and has so far its raked in $822 million. Altogether, the label is currently valued at a colossal $4.1 billion. The seven members of BTS were each given 68,385 shares last month, which are currently valued at ...
BTS Perform “Dynamite” and “Idol” to Kick Off Tonight Show Residency: Watch
BTS Week on The Tonight Show got off to an explosive start highlighted by a pair of exhilarating performances. The Bangtan Boys will be front and center for every show through the end of the week. To kick things off on Monday night, the septet of Jin, RM, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jimin, and Jungkook teamed up with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots for a remixed version of their latest hit single, “Dynamite”. They then returned to the airwaves at the end of the episode for a show-stopping closing performance of “Idol”, from their 2018 album, Love Yourself: Answer. Replay both performances below. BTS have stormed through America in a way not seen since The Beatles. Their latest history-defying release was “Dynamite”, which became the first single by an all-South Korean group to top the Billb...
BTS Announce New Album BE (Deluxe Edition)
It’s never a dull day for the BTS Army. Ahead of their week-long residency on The Tonight Show, the K-pop superstars have announced the release details for their next album. Entitled BE (Deluxe Edition), it’s due out on November 20th. Per a press release, BTS’s latest album “imparts a message of healing to the world by declaring, ‘Even in the face of this new normality, our life goes on.’” The album is also significant as it marks the first time the septet was involved in the overall production, from the concept concept, to the composition, to the design, and more. “BE (Deluxe Edition) reflects the thoughts, emotions and deepest ruminations of BTS while working on the album. This new project offers an even richer musical spectrum experience as well as the most ‘BTS-ish’ music ye...
BTS Share Trailer for New Video Game BTS Universe Story: Watch
BTS may not be able to go on a world tour right now due to coronavirus, but that won’t stop them from connecting with fans worldwide. The record-breaking K-pop stars and Netmarble have just released the trailer for BTS Universe Story, a brand new video game that stars all seven members of the South Korean group, which will be available to play around the globe. Don’t mistake BTS Universe Story as a follow-up to their 2019 mobile game BTS World. Instead, this is an “interactive social game” that plays out like a totally fresh RPG. By following the main objective, fans can participate in a pre-determined plot where each choice impacts later gameplay. However, the game also boasts additional modes, such as “Story Creation”, where users can form an in-game story from scratch, and “Collection”,...
BTS Announce New Concert Film Break the Silence: The Movie
Want more proof that you can’t stop the power of K-pop? While movie studios are creeping ever closer to accepting that theatrical releases in America are still a considerable ways off, BTS just announced a new concert film, Break the Silence: The Movie — and it’s targeting a September 24th debut… Please click the link below to read the full article. BTS Announce New Concert Film Break the Silence: The Movie Ben Kaye You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
BTS Will Perform New Single “Dynamite” At 2020 MTV VMAs
For the first time, South Korean superstars BTS will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards. The event takes place August 30th with “limited or no audience,” and the Bangtan Boys will be showing off their new English-language single, which has been officially titled “Dynamite”. While the VMAs aren’t… Please click the link below to read the full article. BTS Will Perform New Single “Dynamite” At 2020 MTV VMAs Wren Graves You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet r...
K-Pop Sensations BLACKPINK Officially Announce Debut Studio Album
Over the last four years, the K-Pop group BLACKPINK has been gathering momentum like a tidal wave just offshore. With the release of “How You Like That” last month, they suddenly rose above the world’s shores, blotted out the sun, and obliterated streaming records to the tune of 82 million views in 24 hours. Now, at long last, they’ve announced their debut studio album, and it’s coming October 2nd. Together Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa released a self-titled Japanese EP in 2017, and the Korean-language Square Up the following year. These were repackaged into the compilation album BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA in 2018, and that project’s startling success allowed their label YG Entertainment to strike a bold new deal with Interscope. Suddenly, the quartet were global. They celebrated by rele...
BTS Announce New English-Language Single Due Out on August 21st
BTS are set to release a brand new single on August 21st. “We have prepared a new single for ARMY, set for August 21st. We are preparing an album for the second half of this year, but decided to first release a single because we wanted to reach our fans as soon as possible,” the K-pop group revealed on V LIVE, a Korean livestream broadcasting app. “Due to COVID-19, people around the world have been going through tough times and we wanted to share some positive energy with our fans.” BTS further divulged that the new song “is upbeat and sung in English, just like ‘MIC Drop’ and ‘Waste It On Me’. We thought that the song sounded perfect as it is in English. We recorded the guide version and felt that the result was something totally new and fresh.” “When we first heard and recorded the song,...
