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Lewat “Only thing”, JISUNG membuka babak baru sebagai solois, mengubah ketidakpastian dalam hubungan yang nyaris lepas kendali menjadi balada rock yang samar dan terasa membara pelan-pelan

JISUNG Bicarakan Debut Solo, Kerentanan Emosional, dan Menemukan Suaranya di “Only thing”

Grup rookie yang sedang naik daun, KEYVITUP dan VAYONN, berbagi kreator, perusahaan, dan awal perjalanan yang sama. Keduanya sama-sama datang melalui proyek INTHE X dari iNKODE sebelum akhirnya terbagi menjadi dua grup terpisah – KEYVITUP debut lebih dulu pada April dengan EP self-titled mereka, sementara VAYONN menyusul pada Juli lewat Youth Today

KEYVITUP x VAYONN: DNA yang Sama, Semangat yang Berbeda

Dari EXO dan BTS hingga ATEEZ dan aespa, lore K-pop telah berkembang menjadi dunia luas berisi semesta fiksi, narasi yang saling terhubung, dan penceritaan transmedia

Bisnis Lore K-Pop: Dari Worldbuilding hingga Loyalitas Penggemar

ATEEZ is an eight-member boy group under KQ Entertainment &mdash; Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung, and Jongho &mdash; who debuted in October 2018 with Treasure EP.1: All to Zero, opening a pirate-and-treasure narrative that gave their early work a cinematic frame. What set them apart was performance built on a larger-than-life scale. Without the backing of a major label, they drew attention through sharp facial expression, full-body choreography, live-stage force, and songs engineered to detonate in concert: &ldquo;Wonderland,&rdquo; &ldquo;Answer,&rdquo; &ldquo;Guerrilla,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bouncy,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Crazy Form&rdquo; all share that instinct for big chants, dramatic builds, and choruses written to be shouted back. Their roles reinforce that theatricality &mdash; Hongjoong leads and produces, Mingi anchors the rap line with his low register, Jongho delivers exceptional high notes, and San, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, and Wooyoung carry much of the performance identity. ATINY, their fandom, is known for fierce international support, the force that lifted a smaller-agency group into a global touring act. ATEEZ matter because they show how far a consistent performance identity can take a group. Loud, dark, playful, or defiant, the core stays theatrical and physical. They turned intensity into a worldview rather than a seasonal concept.

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KPOPWORLD menghadirkan kolaborasi seru antara #ATEEZ dan MIIMCA X TELECA. Pilih dari tiga opsi merchandise eksklusif yang menampilkan trading card ATEEZ

ATEEZ MIIMCA X TELECA COLLECTION

NCT, short for Neo Culture Technology, is a boy group project under SM Entertainment. The system was built around multiple units, changing combinations, and regional expansion rather than a single fixed lineup, making NCT one of SM&#x27;s most ambitious idol structures. The project began publicly through NCT U in 2016, then expanded through fixed or semi-fixed units such as NCT 127, NCT Dream, WayV, and NCT WISH. Each unit carries a different role: Seoul-based performance, youth-to-adult growth, Chinese-language promotion, rotational experiments, and the final new-team expansion. NCT&#x27;s music is often associated with dense production, experimental structures, and performance-heavy arrangements. The group&#x27;s system allowed SM to place members in songs by concept, which helped produce very different sounds under the same brand without asking every unit to serve the same identity. The project also made member identity central to the fan experience. NCTzen follows not only the full brand but also unit dynamics, cross-unit collaborations, and individual member activities, which makes the profile more complex than a normal group page. NCT is both a group brand and a structure for multiple teams. That structure shaped how SM approached global boy-group promotion from the mid-2010s onward, making the project as much about organization and unit design as individual songs.

WINWIN, mantan member NCT yang kini berkarier solo, akan merilis mini album debutnya RE-fresh pada 1 November 2026, dipimpin oleh single pra-rilis “Back at One”

Mantan Member NCT WINWIN Rilis Single Utama untuk Debut Solo ‘RE-fresh’

aespa is a four-member girl group debuted by SM Entertainment in November 2020, consisting of Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning. The group introduced a concept centered on virtual &quot;ae&quot; counterparts, blending real and digital worlds into an elaborate sci-fi universe often associated with KWANGYA. That metaverse-inspired setup positioned aespa at the intersection of idol pop, technology branding, and SM&#x27;s long-running taste for high-concept worldbuilding. Musically, aespa made a sharp first impression with an aggressive, synth-heavy style that matched the digital concept without depending on it completely. &quot;Black Mamba&quot;, &quot;Next Level&quot; and &quot;Savage&quot; used sudden beat changes, metallic textures, and big vocal climaxes to create a sound that felt more angular than most mainstream girl-group pop. The approach could be polarizing, but it made aespa instantly identifiable. The group&#x27;s later singles showed how flexible that identity could become. &quot;Drama&quot; pushed the cinematic side of aespa, while Supernova turned their electronic edge into something brighter, stranger, and more playful. Karina and Winter often serve as the visual and performance center of the group, Giselle gives the rap sections a casual sharpness, and Ningning brings a vocal power that lets aespa&#x27;s biggest choruses land with real force. aespa’s fandom is known as MY, and the group became one of the key fourth-generation acts by making high-concept idol pop feel commercially central rather than niche. Their importance is tied to that blend: they are an SM vocal group, a performance group, a fashion-forward girl group, and a sci-fi pop project at the same time. Even when the lore becomes less prominent, the idea remains clear: aespa turns futurism into a pop language.

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KARINA dan NINGNING melakukan debut Met Gala mereka pada Senin malam, dan mereka sama sekali tidak datang untuk sekadar tampil biasa. Waktu kemunculan ini memang disengaja. aespa merilis single baru "WDA (Whole Different Animal)" pada 11 Mei.

KARINA dan NINGNING Melakukan Debut Met Gala dalam Prada dan Gucci

TOMORROW X TOGETHER, usually shortened to TXT, is a five-member boy group under BIGHIT MUSIC &mdash; Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Huening Kai. They debuted in March 2019 with The Dream Chapter: Star, arriving as BigHit&rsquo;s first boy group after BTS and drawing immediate attention. Their early identity centered on youth, friendship, imagination, and the odd emotional weather of growing up. Rather than opening with a hard-edged performance image, they leaned into brightness, fantasy, and vulnerability on &ldquo;Crown,&rdquo; &ldquo;Run Away,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Hour&rdquo; &mdash; a stance that set them apart within fourth-generation boy-group trends, largely because their storytelling treated adolescence as magical, confusing, and faintly unstable. As the catalog grew, they folded in sharper pop-rock, emo, and dance influences through &ldquo;0X1=LOVESONG,&rdquo; &ldquo;LO$ER=LOVER,&rdquo; &ldquo;Sugar Rush Ride,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Chasing That Feeling.&rdquo; The members&rsquo; strengths track that evolution closely: Soobin&rsquo;s steady leadership, Yeonjun&rsquo;s performance charisma, Beomgyu&rsquo;s color, Taehyun&rsquo;s vocal precision, and Huening Kai&rsquo;s bright tone let the group move between softness and intensity. Their fandom is MOA, short for Moments of Alwaysness. What makes TXT significant is how deliberately they built a coming-of-age identity across albums, videos, and stages. Instead of defining themselves by a single sound, they became a group about transition itself &mdash; childhood into adulthood, fantasy into reality, polished idol pop into something more emotionally restless.

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TOMORROW X TOGETHER akan menghadirkan konser ulang tahun ke-7 mereka ke bioskop di seluruh dunia pada 24 Mei – dan jika Anda tidak berada di Korea atau Jepang, ini adalah satu-satunya kesempatan Anda untuk menyaksikannya secara langsung

TOMORROW X TOGETHER Akan Membawa Konser Ulang Tahun ke-7 ke Bioskop di Seluruh Dunia

CIX (an acronym for Complete In X) was a four-member boy group under C9 Entertainment, consisting of members BX, Seunghun, Yonghee, and Hyunsuk. Originally debuting as a five-member group on July 23, 2019, with the EP &#x27;Hello&#x27; Chapter 1. Hello, Stranger. On August 4, 2024, C9 Entertainment announced the termination of Bae Jinyoung&#x27;s contract, confirming his departure from both the company and the group. On February 27, 2019, C9 Entertainment revealed the first member of their upcoming boy group, Bae Jin Young (former Wanna One), followed by Seung Hun on March 6, Hyun Suk on March 13, Kim Sehoon on March 20, Yong Hee on March 27, and BX on April 3. However, Kim Sehoon did not debut with the group due to past involvement in school violence. On May 20, 2019, the group&#x27;s social media accounts were changed from C9BOYZ to CIX, which stands for &quot;Complete In X.&quot; A video titled &quot;CIX - Leader Film&quot; was released, introducing the group name and logo. On May 24, C9 Entertainment announced that the members of CIX would star in a 10-episode reality show, &quot;Hello CIX,&quot; to be released on V Live. On June 26, 2019, C9 Entertainment revealed a teaser for CIX&#x27;s debut EP, &#x27;Hello&#x27; Chapter 1. Hello, Stranger, set for release on July 23. The group&#x27;s debut included the title track &quot;Movie Star.&quot; On August 26, CIX signed with Warner Music Japan for their Japanese promotions. On October 30, the group&#x27;s 100th-day anniversary, they revealed their fandom name, FIX, meaning &quot;Faith In X.&quot;

CIX bubar setelah tujuh tahun. C9 Entertainment mengonfirmasi bahwa kontrak keempat anggota akan berakhir dalam lima minggu ke depan – BX dan Seunghun pada 30 April, Yonghee sebelum pendaftaran wajib militernya pada 11 Mei, dan Hyunsuk pada 31 Mei saat ia menyelesaikan syuting drama

CIX Bubarkan Diri Setelah Tujuh Tahun

TOMORROW X TOGETHER dan UNICEF telah meluncurkan 'TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW' – sebuah kampanye global yang fokus pada kesehatan mental dan kesejahteraan remaja. Inisiatif ini mempertemukan TXT dengan Korean Committee for UNICEF dan BIGHIT MUSIC untuk menciptakan ruang bagi kaum muda agar bisa berbicara terbuka tentang perasaan mereka dan meminta bantuan ketika diperlukan

TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW: TXT dan UNICEF Luncurkan Kampanye Global Kesehatan Mental Remaja

HYBE telah melaporkan pendapatan kuartal pertama tertinggi sepanjang sejarahnya – KRW 698.3 billion – dan angka utama itu hanya sebagian dari cerita. Seperti yang diperkirakan, kembalinya BTS dengan ARIRANG melakukan pekerjaan berat, hampir menggandakan pendapatan musik rekaman tahun ke tahun

HYBE Mencatat Pendapatan Kuartal Pertama Tertinggi Saat Comeback BTS Mendorong Pertumbuhan Eksplosif

Weverse Con HYBE yang terbesar hadir — dan susunan penampilnya memuaskan. Tiga puluh artis. Dua hari. RAIN menjadi headliner di Tribute Stage yang merayakan para artis yang membangun genre ini. SOOBIN tampil solo

HYBE Mengungkap Susunan Lengkap untuk 2026 Weverse Con Festival, yang Terbesar Sejauh Ini

Cortis, is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Music. The group consists of five members: Martin, James, Juhoon, Seonghyeon, and Keonho. They debuted on August 18, 2025, with the digital single “What You Want&quot; followed by their first EP, &quot;Color Outside the Lines&quot;. The group’s name is derived from the phrase “Color Outside the Lines,” reflecting their concept of creative freedom and nonconformity. Cortis has been promoted as a self-producing “creator crew,” with members participating in songwriting, choreography, and visual direction. Blending pop, hip-hop, and experimental elements, the group gained early attention for their performance skills, self-produced content, and strong rookie-year sales, establishing them as one of Big Hit Music’s newer generation acts.

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CORTIS telah membuat sejarah K-pop. EP debut mereka, Color Outside the Lines, telah melampaui dua juta penjualan kumulatif di Korea Selatan – menjadikannya album debut terlaris oleh grup K-pop dalam sejarah negara tersebut.

CORTIS Mengklaim Gelar Album Debut Terlaris dalam Sejarah K-pop

&amp;TEAM is a nine-member Japanese boy group under YX Labels (formerly HYBE Labels Japan). The group was formed through the survival program &quot;&amp;Audition - The Howling&quot; and debuted in December 2022 with their first extended play &quot;First Howling: Me&quot;. The group consists of EJ, Fuma, K, Nicholas, Yuma, Jo, Harua, Taki, and Maki, with EJ serving as the leader. Several members, including K, Nicholas, EJ, and Taki, previously participated in the survival show I-LAND before being selected for HYBE&#x27;s Japanese global debut project. Before their official debut, the group released the digital single Under the Skin, which introduced their storyline and concept. Their debut EP, First Howling,e followed shortly afterward, marking the beginning of the group&#x27;s &quot;First Howling&quot; series of releases. Although primarily active in Japan, &amp;TEAM promoted internationally and later expanded into Korea with Korean-language releases and promotions. Their fandom name is LUNÉ, representing fans who support the group like the moon lighting the night sky.

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&amp;TEAM merilis EP ketiga mereka We on Fire sekarang – enam lagu, plus video musik untuk lagu utama, yang menempatkan kesembilan anggota melalui rangkaian aksi berskala penuh di dalam alam semesta DARK MOON untuk pertama kalinya

&TEAM Kembali dengan EP dan MV ‘We on Fire’

BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Music that debuted on June 12, 2013, with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. Its seven members are RM (leader), Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, with RM, Suga, and J-Hope contributing heavily to songwriting and production. The name stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan (&ldquo;Bulletproof Boy Scouts&rdquo;), reflecting a concept of resisting the pressures placed on young people.
The group broke through in 2015 with &ldquo;I Need U&rdquo; and reached a global audience with Wings and the Love Yourself series, whose Love Yourself: Tear became the first album by a Korean act to top the Billboard 200 in 2018. &ldquo;Dynamite,&rdquo; &ldquo;Butter,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Permission to Dance&rdquo; each hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. BTS is among the best-selling artists in South Korean history and partnered with UNICEF on the Love Myself campaign. Full-group activities paused from 2022 to 2025 for the members&rsquo; mandatory military service, completed when Suga was discharged in June 2025. Their tenth studio album, ARIRANG, arrived on March 20, 2026, followed by the Arirang World Tour beginning that April.

BTS duduk bersama Josh Brubaker dari Audacy untuk membicarakan ARIRANG, kembalinya mereka, dan mengapa mereka harus kembali dengan besar

BTS Bicara ARIRANG dan Menegaskan Akar Mereka di Korea: "Kami Ingin Mengklaim Diri Kami Lagi"

BLACKPINK is a four-member South Korean girl group under YG Entertainment &mdash; Jisoo, Jennie, Ros&eacute;, and Lisa &mdash; who debuted on August 8, 2016 with Square One and its double single "Boombayah" and "Whistle." As YG's first girl group since 2NE1, they were positioned not as a large idol ensemble but as four sharply drawn performers, each with her own vocal tone, visual identity, and role. The name itself encodes that duality: "black" for a hard, self-assured edge, "pink" for glamour and pop accessibility. Jennie and Lisa's clipped rap sections anchor the percussive center of most songs while Jisoo and Ros&eacute; supply melodic lift, a structure recognizable across producers, languages, and markets &mdash; from the sparse whistle hook of their debut to the heavy drops of "DDU-DU DDU-DU." Scarcity shaped their ascent as much as output did. They released comparatively few songs in their early years, which turned each comeback into an event rather than a routine promotional beat. The tradeoffs were real, but attention concentrated on a tight set of songs, videos, and stage moments: "Kill This Love," "How You Like That," "Pink Venom," and "Shut Down" became templates for a global-facing K-pop built on impact, visual clarity, and instantly repeatable hooks. Their reach came from more than charts &mdash; they linked the idol system to global pop, luxury fashion, digital fandom, and festival culture, becoming the first Korean girl group at Coachella in 2019 and the first K-pop act to headline it in 2023. Western collaborations, fashion-house partnerships, and an enormous social footprint carried them to audiences with no prior interest in Korean music. All four built substantial solo careers in music, acting, fashion, and brand work, making the group a clear case of group and solo identities reinforcing each other. After renewing with YG for group activities, their individual paths grew more independent while BLACKPINK continued as a shared brand and performing unit. Their real significance lies less in records broken than in normalizing a model where a K-pop girl group functions at once as an idol act, a global pop project, and four standalone celebrity careers. Their fandom is called BLINK.

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Anyma dan LISA merilis "Bad Angel," sebuah lagu beraroma techno untuk klub yang dirilis oleh Interscope Records menjelang penampilan headline Anyma di Coachella Jumat ini

Anyma dan LISA bekerja sama dalam single baru "Bad Angel"

ENHYPEN is a boy group formed through the 2020 survival show I-LAND and managed by Belift Lab, currently made up of Jungwon, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, and Ni-ki. They debuted in November 2020 with Border: Day One, arriving with a global audience already in place from the show and a concept organized around connection, transformation, and fate. Their early work used dark, dramatic imagery to pull away from brighter rookie formulas. "Given-Taken," "Drunk-Dazed," "Fever," and the later Dimension and Dark Blood eras leaned on supernatural metaphor, sharp choreography, and a push-pull between elegance and danger &mdash; which made them feel less like a survival-show byproduct than a group with an ongoing storyline. The member appeal is heavily performance-driven: Jungwon holds a steady center as leader, Jay and Jake bring international texture, Sunghoon's figure-skating background shapes his clean stage presence, Sunoo adds brightness and contrast, and Ni-ki anchors the dance line with rare precision for a maknae. Their fandom, ENGENE, grew fast because the group's identity rewarded close reading &mdash; music, lore, and member development all unfolding at once. As a fourth-generation act, ENHYPEN sit at the junction of survival-show fandom and global idol scale. They demonstrated that a group could debut with a transnational audience already watching, then hold it through consistent visual storytelling, polished performance, and songs that treated adolescence as mythic rather than ordinary.

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Kurang dari sebulan setelah kepergiannya dari ENHYPEN, Lee Hee-seung kini punya identitas baru

HEESEUNG Kini Menjadi EVAN - BELIFT LAB Resmi Meluncurkan Karier Solonya

Wanna One was an eleven-member project boy group formed through Produce 101 Season 2 and managed by Swing Entertainment. The lineup consisted of Kang Daniel, Park Jihoon, Daehwi, Kim Jaehwan, Seongwu, Woojin, Kuanlin, Jisung, Hwang Minhyun, Jinyoung, and Ha Sungwoon. The group debuted in August 2017 with 1X1=1 (To Be One), led by &quot;Energetic,&quot; and almost immediately became one of the biggest acts in Korea. Wanna One&#x27;s appeal came from the survival-show bond already formed with viewers: fans had watched the members compete, struggle, and be selected, so the debut felt less like an introduction than a payoff. That emotional investment translated into huge album sales, music show wins, endorsements, and concerts during a very short contract period. Musically, Wanna One balanced bright rookie energy with more dramatic performance tracks, moving from &quot;Energetic&quot; and &quot;Beautiful&quot; to later releases that emphasized nostalgia and urgency. Because the group was temporary from the start, even ordinary comebacks carried a countdown feeling. Their fandom, Wannable, supported the group with the intensity of knowing the project had an end date. Wanna One disbanded in early 2019, but their influence lasted through the members&#x27; later solo, acting, and group careers. They became one of the clearest examples of survival-show fandom turning into full-scale mainstream power, and their success shaped expectations for later project groups across the Produce system and beyond.

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Tujuh tahun setelah bubar, Wanna One kembali — dan internet belum melupakan mereka. Teaser pertama untuk reality show baru mereka, WANNA ONE GO: Back to Base

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