This article analyses the 2015 music video for the song 'Dope' by South Korean 'K-pop' boy-band BTS, which had attracted over 200 million YouTube views by mid-2017. We contend that such K-pop music videos draw on established genre conventions to facilitate the global commercialization of ...
Korean waveMVHallyuThis article analyses the 2015 music video for the song 'Dope' by South Korean 'K-pop' boy-band BTS, which had attracted over 200 million YouTube views by mid-2017. We contend that such K-pop music videos draw on established genre conventions to facilitate the global ...
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K-pop is taking the U.S. by storm. Heartthrob boy band BTS is one of the top musical acts in America, racking up more than 1.2 billion audio streams in the U.S. in 2018, not far behind Taylor Swift. And last spring they also reportedly made more than $44 million from just six ...
In 2005, South Korean producer and songwriter Bang Si-Hyuk (aka "hitman" Bang) founded Bit Hit Entertainment. Only eight years later, he finished assembling what would come to be the label’s groundbreaking boy group,BTS. The rest is history, now chronicled in "HYBE: We BelieveInMusic," ...
The song, now certified platinum, became the act's first hit in the U.S., setting off an ongoing streak of Stateside hits and world records for the South Korean boyband. That same year, they became the first Korean act to top the Billboard 200 chart with Love Yourself: Tear. BTS ...
It’s impossible to ignore the growing global popularity of K-pop. Although Korean pop has been around for decades, the genre's meteoric worldwide successover the past 10 yearsis reminiscent of Beatlemania and the early 2000s American boy band craze. With a steady increase year-over-year in...