K-Pop

AMPERS&ONE made their M COUNTDOWN debut with 'GOD' on April 9, just one day after their 4th mini album DEFINITION landed at No. 1 on Hanteo Chart's daily album ranking.

NMIXX's second MLB pregame appearance at Oracle Park is no coincidence — it signals K-pop's most calculated American expansion play yet.

M Countdown EP.923 on April 9 features debut broadcast stages from hrtz.wav and KEYVITUP, plus comebacks from KISS OF LIFE, HWASA, IRENE, Kep1er, and more.

BTS drops the official MV for 'Hooligan' from their fifth album ARIRANG — a high-energy, cinematic visual directed by Hannah Lux Davis that has ARMY analyzing every frame.

YOUNG POSSE release 'we don't go to bed tonight' on 1theK — a digicore genre pivot with a unique 5-track architecture where each layer builds the full song.

BTS's ARIRANG hit Billboard 200 No.1 for two weeks, but surging oil prices now threaten K-pop's global tour economics, album shipping, and fan spending power.

T.O.P's debut album Another Dimension breaks streaming records as the 완전미쳤어! MV drops April 8 featuring NANA and Squid Game's creative team.

D.O.'s 'Popcorn' is climbing every major Korean chart two years after release. A variety show story about Kim Woo-bin's wedding triggered a textbook yeokjuhaeng (역주행) revival.

KATSEYE drops an official teaser for 'PINKY UP,' releasing April 9 — two days before the HYBE-Geffen girl group makes their Coachella debut.

BTS's Suga admitted in a Wired Autocomplete Interview that his stage name was not inspired by 'shooting guard' as he'd claimed for 13 years — the real inspiration is boxer Sugar Ray Leonard.

TWS's fifth mini album 'NO TRAGEDY' drops April 27, 2026 — the group's boldest comeback yet, built around a Shakespearean love story rewritten for a generation that refuses a sad ending.

aespa's Karina admits she lost her appetite for the first time in 27 years — and her honest guess about the reason has every MY emotional ahead of the group's second full album.