Competition among platforms chasing YouTube Music’s dominance in South Korea’s domestic music market is intensifying. Local platforms like Melon, Genie, and Flo, as well as global players like Spotify ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Circle Chart, South Korea's top and longest-running music chart, released the 2025 Yearly Top Best-Selling Albums with Kpop ...

The song of the year category also features K-pop nominees for the first time. “APT.” will go head-to-head with the fictional ...

K-Pop Demon Hunters, Netflix’s electrifying new animated film, embodies the global rise of K-pop through an explosive mix of music, magic, and mayhem. While this movie seems like pure fantasy, with ...

The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass. By Jon Caramanica This year, from a distance, the ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Dyah (pronounced Dee-yah) is a Senior Author at Collider, responsible for both writing and transcription duties. She joined the website in 2022 as a Resource Writer before stepping into her current ...

The holiday season is synonymous with joy, giving and of course, music. For K-pop fans all around the world, Christmas is not the same without the infectious cheer of their favorite idols. This year, ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...