
BABYMONSTER's 'HOT SAUCE' and the Retro Hip-Hop Gamble Paying Off in 2025
BABYMONSTER's summer 2025 arrived with "HOT SAUCE" — a single channeling 1980s old-school hip-hop, released on July 1. The music video racked up over 7.92 milli...

BABYMONSTER's summer 2025 arrived with "HOT SAUCE" — a single channeling 1980s old-school hip-hop, released on July 1. The music video racked up over 7.92 milli...

BABYMONSTER released 'HOT SAUCE' on July 1, 2025, their first English-language special summer single, bringing an 80s old-school hip-hop concept to a debut stre...

ILLIT's third mini album "bomb" sold 401,674 copies in its first week following the June 16, 2025 release. That number broke the group's own previous record and...

BTS Festa 2025 brought 60,000 fans to KINTEX in Goyang on June 13–14, marking the symbolic end of the group's two-year military hiatus and the beginning of their long-awaited reunion.

aespa's second single album "Dirty Work" drops on June 27, 2025. Everything about the buildup — pre-orders, streaming numbers, teaser momentum — suggests SM Ent...

BLACKPINK announced the full schedule for their third world tour, "DEADLINE," on June 19, 2025. The tour begins July 5 in Goyang, South Korea, and spans three c...

SEVENTEEN's fifth full-length album "HAPPY BURSTDAY" sold 2,521,208 copies in its first week on Hanteo. Released on May 26, 2025 to mark the group's tenth anniv...

ATEEZ made history on June 28, 2025. Their single "Lemon Drop" debuted at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, making ATEEZ the third K-pop boy group ever to chart...

NCT's Doyoung broke his own first-week sales record with "SOAR". His second full-length solo album sold 401,039 copies in its first week on Hanteo — released Ju...

ENHYPEN's sixth mini-album "DESIRE: UNLEASH" sold 2.14 million copies in its first week on Hanteo. That figure — a 13 percent increase over the group's previous...

Five years is a long time in K-pop. When Red Velvet's IRENE & SEULGI released "Monster" in July 2020, the sub-unit became the best-selling female sub-unit in So...

BTS reunited for the first time since completing military service at j-hope's 'Hope on the Stage' Goyang finale on June 13-14, 2025 — a moment with wide industry implications.