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All posts tagged "K-pop"

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  EXO records K-pop’s best ranking on Billboard’s year-end chart

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean boy band EXO has scored K-pop’s best-ever ranking on Billboard’s year-end chart, according to the U.S. music news service. EXO ranked 7th on Billboard’s 2014 year-end World Album Artists chart released earlier...

  • Posted December 12, 2014
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  Singer Bumkey arrested and charged with drug distribution

  Hip-hop artist Bumkey was arrested in October on charges of distributing meth and ecstasy, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul said Thursday. The 30-year-old singer, whose off-stage name is Kwon Ki-beom, was charged with selling 6 grams...

  • Posted December 11, 2014
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  Girls’ Generation’s first concert as octet sells out 50,000 seats

  K-pop group Girls’ Generation performed their first concert with only eight members since the controversial departure of Jessica on Tuesday in Japan. This was also the first time they performed at the Tokyo Dome, which is considered one...

  • Posted December 10, 2014
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  Psy’s ‘Hangover’ tops YouTube K-Pop chart in 2014

  The music video of South Korean rapper Psy’s latest single “Hangover” was the most viewed K-pop clip on YouTube this year, the global video-sharing site said Tuesday. The song, debuted in June and featuring U.S. rapper Snoop...

  • Posted December 9, 2014
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  Grim reality of K-pop trainees

  By Kim Jae-heun An aspiring K-pop singer feels he is stuck in exactly the same place he started out five years ago; the difference now is that he doesn’t have much hope of changing the fact. At...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  Psy’s new album to be released early next year

  Psy is coming back with a new album early next year, a YG Entertainment source told Yonhap. The 37-year-old “Gangnam Style” star completed filming the music video for his new song “Daddy” but has pushed back release...

  • Posted December 1, 2014
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  Producer Glen Choi is out to shape the future of K-pop

  By Tae Hong Glen Choi was a 14-year-old Korean American kid from Beverly Hills when he entered the K-pop industry in 1996 as one-half of IDOL, a pop duo who breezed their way to the top of...

  • Posted November 25, 2014
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