USPEER debuted June 4 as WM Entertainment's first new girl group in a decade. Here's what their electro-hip-hop debut means in K-pop's crowded 2025 girl group landscape.
BLACKPINK returns to the stage on July 5, and the world tour they are walking into is built at a scale that no K-pop act has previously attempted. The announcem...
ITZY, KISS OF LIFE, IZNA, and QWER all drop new music on June 9, 2025. Here's a guide to K-pop's most competitive summer drop date and what to expect.
ENHYPEN's 6th mini-album DESIRE: UNLEASH drops June 5 with title track Bad Desire. Here's what the Coachella-announced album means for their 2025 trajectory.
SEVENTEEN became the first K-pop act to perform on Seoul's Jamsu Bridge on May 25, 2025 — closing a decade with a moment built to outlast the night. The 13-memb...
South Korean alternative pop band The Rose released their new EP WRLD on May 30, 2025. The seven-track collection marks their return to music after a year-and-a...
DAY6 performed six sold-out nights at KSPO Dome in May 2025, drawing 96,000 fans to a 360-degree stage setup, while Maybe Tomorrow simultaneously reached No. 1 on Melon — a tenth anniversary statement across two mediums.
IRENE and SEULGI's second mini-album TILT sold 160,114 copies in its first week — 36% more than Monster five years earlier. The math reveals a fandom that not only survived the gap but grew through it.
EXO's Baekhyun returned on May 19, 2025 with his fifth mini-album Essence of Reverie. The first-week numbers settled a question that every post-military K-pop c...
MEOVV released their debut EP "MY EYES OPEN VVIDE" on May 12, 2025, selling 88,954 copies on its first day and 255,005 copies in its first week. For The Black L...
May 19, 2025 produced one of K-pop's most commercially saturated single-day release windows of the year. RIIZE's "ODYSSEY" sold 800,000 copies in 24 hours — the...
Baekhyun's post-military comeback sold 668,590 copies on its first day — the highest first-day solo K-pop sales of 2025 — entirely through his independent label INB100.