K-pop’s – really, the world’s – biggest girl group return two years after dropping their first official studio album, appropriately titled The Album. Just as short as the last one and as many of their previous EPs and compilations, Born Pink stands at a tight eight tracks and finds the group continuing to follow their … Continue reading BLACKPINK – BORN PINK
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SEVENTEEN – Face the Sun
As the list of K-pop groups selling enough on this side of the planet to be featured on this website expands ever further, 13-member strong SEVENTEEN’s fourth studio album comes in the wake of their Western TV debut last year and the announcement of their most comprehensive tour through North America yet, set to kick … Continue reading SEVENTEEN – Face the Sun
TWICE – Formula of Love: O+T=<3
While everyone this side of the Atlantic held off on their release to avoid competition with Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars, nine-member K-pop girl group TWICE continued widely outpacing many of their peers when it comes to the sheer volume of music released and dropped their third album in just over a year. While I’ve … Continue reading TWICE – Formula of Love: O+T=<3
ITZY – Crazy In Love
For the second straight week, a K-pop group outside the leading two of BTS and BLACKPINK with unspeakably massive fanbases has cracked the week’s most popular albums – this time it’s female five-piece ITZY with their official full-length debut, Crazy in Love. While only nine official tracks in length, with instrumental versions of some of … Continue reading ITZY – Crazy In Love
NCT 127 – Sticker – The 3rd Album
One of the many subsets of the 23-member K-pop collective NCT, NCT 127’s profile has been growing worldwide as they latch onto the seemingly nonstop rising wave of the genre’s influence and fandom. Led by wildly popular Canadian K-pop idol Mark Lee, also a member of supergroup SuperM, and blending together aspects of pop, hip-hop … Continue reading NCT 127 – Sticker – The 3rd Album
BLACKPINK – THE ALBUM
As K-pop continues to embed itself further and further into the culture on this side of the globe, there’s a definite argument to be made that BLACKPINK is the biggest girl group in the world at the moment. Thriving mostly off of shorter projects and coasting on the strength of their singles, outside of a … Continue reading BLACKPINK – THE ALBUM
BTS – MAP OF THE SOUL: 7
The steamroller of a cultural force that is BTS continues to roll on, crushing everything but Adele in its path as it debuts to over 3 million first-day sales worldwide, good for the second biggest all-time. And for the first time, their latest project Map of the Soul: 7 has honestly made me grasp the … Continue reading BTS – MAP OF THE SOUL: 7
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