IVE's 'Rebel Heart' becomes their fifth PAK-achieving single, debuting at #97 on the Billboard Global 200 and spending 10 weeks on the Global Excl. US chart ahead of the EMPATHY EP release.
BBGIRLS releases 'LOVE 2' as a trio under new agency GLG, ending 17 months of silence with a comeback shaped by the group's extraordinary survival story.
Rose and Bruno Mars' APT. has spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard Global 200 — an analysis of how a K-pop soloist achieved sustained Western dominance.
ONEUS reimagines 12 fan-favorite tracks as five-member recordings and delivers 4 new songs, closing the loop on their Road to Kingdom moment for ToMoon.
ZEROBASEONE compressed Korean and Japanese releases into one month — analysis of the dual-market strategy driving a project group's race against time.
IVE releases 'Rebel Heart' on January 13 as the pre-release single from their third mini album 'IVE EMPATHY' — analyzing what the release signals about IVE's conceptual direction and the rollout strategy heading into February.
NMIXX sells out two nights at LaLa Arena Tokyo Bay, drawing 21,300 fans to their first solo Japan concert — validating the MIXX POP concept internationally.
SMTOWN LIVE 2025 opens at Gocheok Sky Dome with five generations of SM artists, from Kangta and BoA to RIIZE and aespa, mapping K-pop's 30-year evolution.
GFRIEND's 10th anniversary reunion with 'Season of Memories' is more than nostalgia — it's a structural blueprint for how third-generation K-pop groups can return with authenticity intact.
Huh Yunjin releases her fourth solo digital single "Jellyfish" today. It arrives not as a side project but as a quiet argument about who she really is as an art...
aespa claimed their first-ever Digital Song Daesang at the 39th Golden Disc Awards with 'Supernova,' ending BTS's era of streaming dominance and signaling that K-pop's fourth generation has fully arrived.
Kwon Eunbi's 'Snowfall' is a winter single of real artistic ambition — cinematic visuals, an R&B-forward production with Coogie, and a solo identity built deliberately over four years.