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Feb 04, 2021
(G)I-DLE recently attained a major milestone that made them become the second K-pop girl group that is not under the management of the Big 3 companies to accomplish it, with the first one being MAMAMOO.
On Jan. 11, (G)I-DLE made their comeback after five months since their first single album Dumdi Dumdi. The six-member girl group launched its fourth extended play titled I Burn, featuring its lead single HWAA. Written and co-composed by member Soyeon, HWAA is a moombahton-genre song with a catchy hook and traditional Asian music. The track expresses the pain after a breakup using the burning fire and flowers in the cold winter as a metaphor.
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Feb 01, 2021
Mark your calendars Neverland - (G)I-DLE will collab with well-known Belgian DJ duo, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and their work will be released soon!
On Feb. 1 at midnight KST, (G)I-DLE revealed that they will be teaming up with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike for a remix version of their most recent title track HWAA. Along with the announcement is a teaser photo that displays, HWAA REMIX, (G)I-DLE x DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE, and the release date, which is on Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. KST.
(G)I-DLE × Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Digital Single
[HWAA (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Remix)]
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Jan 08, 2021
2020 was a year of amazing K-pop releases, especially among girl groups. To take a trip down memory lane to the previous year, the Gaon Charts revealed the most popular girl group songs of 2020. Keep on reading to learn more.
The most popular girl group song of 2020 is Red Velvet s Psycho. Though it was released in Dec. 2019, it is still considered a 2020 release, since the song dropped at the end of the year. Upon the song s release, Psycho debuted at number two on the Gaon Digital Chart. It peaked at number three on the Gaon Monthly Digital Cart a month later. Psycho topped the Gaon Download chart for two weeks and peaked at number two on the Streaming Chart.
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Jan 07, 2021
Now that 2020 has come to an end, the Gaon Charts announced which release was the most successful of the year. As one of the major music charts in South Korea, it is considered a huge indicator of how popular a song was in the country. Recently, the charts released which idol songs accumulated the most points this year.
The song that accumulated the most points is Red Velvet s hit song, Psycho ! Though it was released in Dec. 2019, it has been considered an early 2020 release as it was released at the end of the year. The song earned 694 million points in 2020.
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Dec 20, 2020
On Friday, Dec. 18, Teen Vogue released their The Best K-Pop Moments of 2020 list. The list contains numerous comebacks that took the world by storm. See which K-pop comebacks made it to this list. Also, please note that this article will not include debuts and will only include promoted comebacks, meaning no pre-release single or B-side track will be added to this article.
Of course, the list starts with BTS and their most recent comeback, Life Goes On . The song is their third number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first Korean-language song to hit number one on the charts. The song may not be in English, but the warm emotions can still be felt, adding a rich layer to the song. Another BTS song makes the list - Black Swan . The song is fueled with angst and fraught emotion that talks about an artist s first death - when they lose passion for their art.