From top: BTS, ATEEZ, Oh My Girl, and Blackpink From top: BTS, ATEEZ, Oh My Girl, and Blackpink Credit – Photo-Illustration by Sangsuk Sylvia Kang for TIME; Big Hit Entertainment (7); YG Entertainment; KQ Entertainment; WM Entertainment This year, K-pop accelerated its expansion into all sorts of mediums—novels, podcasts, documentaries. […]
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This year, K-pop accelerated its expansion into all sorts of mediums—novels, podcasts, documentaries. And yet, for all the satisfaction these new forms brought with them, the music remains the heart of this global phenomenon. Despite the pandemic’s impact on the worldwide recording industry, releases from South Korea saw no decline […]
Nothing opens the spigot for angry music industry tweets quite like Spotify Wrapped season. The streaming service’s year-end recap seemed to generate more impassioned debates this year — one side vehemently arguing that you shouldn’t give free advertising to a tech company that’s hamstrung the entire industry by not paying […]
Maybe it’s time we stop ranking stuff. Rolling Stone’s updated list, which came out Sept. 22, of the 500 greatest albums of all time is just angering. The list ranks what Rolling Stone considers to be the best albums ever made. Their original list came out in 2003, and a […]