블랙핑크의 귀환, 2025 월드투어 공식화
Time for our daily dose of K-entertainment news with Bella Kim. Bella, as you mentioned, today's K-enter segment is filled with K-pop stories. What’s first on our list?
We are going to start off with girl group BLACKPINK. On Thursday, their agency, YG Entertainment, officially announced BLACKPINK's 2025 world tour. The announcement was made on the company’s official blog as they uploaded a teaser video for the world tour. The video did not contain any details of the tour date or location, but plans are being put together.
The last time we saw BLACKPINK all together for an official activity was a year and a half ago during their last world tour, “Born Pink,” back in September 2023. This tour was described as the “largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group,” as they performed to 1.8 million fans in 66 shows held in 34 cities around the world over the course of a year.
And speaking of BLACKPINK, we have some more exciting news on one of the members?
Jisoo will meet her fans in Asia for her solo fan tour. As Walter reported yesterday, Jisoo will release her new EP, “Amortage,” on February 14th. And to celebrate her new album, she will hold a special fan meet-up, “SOO IN LOVE,” at CGV Cheongdam Cinecity in Seoul on the day of her album release.
Jisoo will then begin her Asian fan tour titled, “LIGHTS, LOVE, ACTION!.” This is her first solo Asian tour since her debut. During the tour, she will visit seven Asian cities-Manila, Bangkok, Tokyo, Macau, Taipei, Hong Kong and Hanoi.
I will keep you all updated with both BLACKPINK and Jisoo’s tour details when they come out.
Next we’ll talk about another artist who also has plans to perform for global fans?
Yes, it’s G-Dragon. He will be the headliner at the ‘Head in the Clouds Los Angeles 2025,’ taking place in Los Angeles on May 31st and June 1st. ‘Head in the Clouds Los Angeles’ is a global music festival organized by the Asian-American entertainment company 88Rising, aimed at introducing Asian artists to American audiences.
G-Dragon will take the stage on May 31st for the first day of the two-day event. The lineup also includes 2NE1, Dean, DPR Ian and more. G-Dragon is set to release “Ubermensch,” his first solo album in 11 years and 5 months, on February 25th.
And finally we have our last story on a virtual idol group?
PLAVE has set a new record! Their new mini-album, “Caligo Pt.1,” surpassed 11 million streams in just 24 hours after its release on Korean music streaming platform, Melon. With this new record, they hold the highest streams in 24 hours among Korean streaming platforms. The new album was released this Monday and it features five tracks in total. The title song “Dash” was the first song released this year to top the ‘TOP 100’ chart. The other four tracks are also near the top of the charts.
PLAVE also holds the record for entering Melon’s Hall of Fame, ‘Billions Club,’ in the shortest time by reaching 1 billion cumulative streams based on all their releases.
Thank you Bella for today’s stories.
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2025-02-06, 14:00 (KST)