K-Pop

January 2026 closed as one of the most commercially consequential months in K-pop's recent history. The month delivered EXO's first full-group album in over two...

TWICE opened the North American leg of their "THIS IS FOR" World Tour on January 9, 2026 in Vancouver. Seventeen arena dates would follow through February, with...

SHINee's ONEW concluded the North American leg of his first solo world tour "ONEW THE LIVE: PERCENT (%)" on January 18, 2026 in Atlanta — five U.S. cities compl...

ONEWE's STUDIO WE: Recording #4, released January 30 with 'Ferris wheel,' extends a five-year demo album project that argues process transparency can be a K-band product.

WHIB's first mini-album ROCK THE NATION debuted at ~72K first-week Hanteo copies on Jan 29 — a 36% personal best, as the 7-member group opens their post-Inhong chapter.

Stray Kids led the 2025 Circle Chart annual album sales with 7.1 million+ copies — Korea's highest-ever figure for a single artist in one calendar year. Their a...

BTS's ARIRANG World Tour sold out all 41 North American and European shows on January 24, 2026 — the general sale day. General sale to complete sellout: 20 minu...

ENHYPEN's seventh mini album THE SIN : VANISH debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 the week of January 27, 2026, with 122,000 equivalent album units — the grou...

EXO's eighth studio album REVERXE closed its first week with 907,976 Hanteo copies — just under a million, confirming the group's commercial position at six-mem...

EXO's eighth studio album REVERXE crossed one million copies without CBX — but first-day sales were down 75% from EXIST. A comprehensive review of the music, the lawsuit, and EXO's uncertain future.

i-dle released "Mono (Feat. skaiwater)" on January 27, 2026, and the single's immediate chart performance confirmed the group's post-rebrand commercial standing...

BLACKPINK closed their DEADLINE World Tour on January 26, ending a seven-month run with 1.6 million total attendees at a 100% sellout rate. The 33-show, 16-city...