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K-pop ( Korean : 케이팝; RR : keipap ), short for Korean popular music, [1] is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. [2] It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its ...
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Welcome to Fandom's K-pop Wiki, a collaborative encyclopedia dedicated to all things K-pop. This wiki's goal is to provide you with the latest info on your favorite artists including new music releases, teaser photos, videos, trivia and more. This wiki has 22,252 articles since May 5, 2010.
- Fashion
- Dance
- History
- Korean Rock
Today, young people like K-Pop star fashion. The World Fashion Company spoke to G-Dragon from Big Bang, because his fashion is unique. Jeremy Scott, a well-known American fashion designer, worked together with CL from the K-Pop band 2NE1, to design clothes. Other K-pop stars such as Baekhyunfrom Exo have started their own fashion brands.
Group dancing is one of the most important parts of K-Pop. Group members dance in sync. Fans often learn and copy the key moves of the dance. Many different styles of dance can be seen within K-Pop.
1990s
The setting up of Seo Tai-ji & Boys in 1992 was a turning point for popular music in South Korea. Using rap rock and techno styles, Hip hop duos such as Deuxalso were popular in the early 1990s. In 1995, Korean businessman Lee Soo Man opened South Korea's largest talent agency, S.M. Entertainment, and set up the first K-Pop girl groups and boy bands. By the late 1990s, new agencies like YG Entertainment, DSP Entertainment, and JYP Entertainmentwere producing talents as quickly as possible. Gr...
2000s
The talent agencies train new artists and bands for the K-pop industry. To make sure it is successful, they take over every part of the young person's career and life. They can spend more than $400,000 to train and launch a new artist. Through this practice of apprenticeship, which often lasts two years or more, trainees are taught to sing, learn professional choreography, sculpt and shape their bodies through exercise, and study multiple languages, all the while attending school. In order to...
K-Pop does include other popular Korean genres of music than Pop, such as rock. Some popular Korean rock bands are DreamCatcher, Guckkasten, YB and Nell. See also the Pentaport Rock Festival.
- Mid to late 1990s, South Korea
On November 11, the music video for their debut single "Like Ooh-Ahh" hit 100 million views on YouTube, making Twice the fourth K-pop girl group to reach 100 million views, as well as the first K-pop group to reach this milestone with a debut music video. On November 19, Twice's "Cheer Up" won Song of the Year at the 8th Melon Music Awards.
- 2015–present
- Seoul, South Korea
Current Billboard logo. List of K-pop on the Billboard charts is a compilation of chart information for K-pop music published by the Billboard charts, and reported on by Billboard K-Town, an online Billboard column. The charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of the artists, songs and albums in the United States and globally.
17 Carat became the longest-charting K-pop album of the year in the US and was the only rookie album to appear on Billboard's "10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015" list. On September 10, 2015, Seventeen released their second EP Boys Be, which later became the highest-selling rookie album of the year.
