From Jung Kook to NewJeans and aespa, we reflect on the K-pop tracks that ruled the last one year
If the previous couple of years have actually been concentrated on increasing K-pop (even more international trips and events, even more English launches), after that 2023 was the development of the market’s most significant business’ passions past K-pop itself. HYBE acquired Exile Music to get in the Latin American market, JYP Entertainment and Republic Records produced the United States woman team VCHA, and HYBE and Geffen made KATSEYE. Both woman teams, produced making use of the K-pop training system, were pictured as K-pop without the ‘K’ which, Geffen kept in mind, had not been an impossible recommendation considering that K-pop was additionally, basically, just “pop” at this moment.
But is that actually real? (*50 *) larger Western market does not appear to concur. In 2019, the MTV VMA’s controversially split K-pop musicians far from the pop classification, and still …