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BTS made history on July 20 at the 2026 World Cup final halftime show—the first official halftime performance in FIFA World Cup final history.
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Grande, 33, and Alvarez, 35, are back together months after she ended things with Ethan Slater.
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aespa topped Hanteo Chart's World Chart for July Week 3 (July 13–19), while idntt's 'itsnotover' dominated the album chart with 568,005 copies sold.
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DNA returns July 27 with EDM single 'NO CAP' and a new five-member lineup.
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RESCENE claimed their first music show win with 'Pretty Girl', which also topped Melon's HOT100.
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BIGC opened fan voting for the 2026 SPOTV K-POP AWARDS on July 20. Eight categories are up for grabs this year, plus a new BAND section.
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WDF 2026 runs August 13–16 at Seoul COEX Auditorium, with a Liberation Day gala show 'LIGHT ON 815' on August 15.
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IDID's leader and a member will throw the first pitch and bat at Seoul Jamsil Baseball Stadium on July 22—their first time doing either since debuting.
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IRION, a four-member project group from MBC Plus drama 'My Idol, My Debut', debuted with title track 'MEMORIA' and its music video on July 19.
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NEXZ wrapped their five-city global showcase on July 12 in Singapore and locked in Latin American festival dates for September, including Rock in Rio and STRAYCITY.
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Jeon Yu-jin won the weekly female singer vote with 239,630 points. Jo Myung-seop took the Spotlight crown. Results dropped July 20.
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Episode 3 of the rookie development documentary drops July 20 at 7 PM KST on YouTube and MnetPlus, with Matthew, Lucas, Oh Jun-hee, Chai Jin-shin, and Samuel tackling their first official missions.
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Han Roro's self-composed B-side 'Saranghage Doel Geoya' topped both Circle Chart digital and streaming rankings for the first half of 2026. She's headed to Summer Sonic.
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'Gangnam Style' hit 6 billion YouTube views on July 17, 2026—nearly 2 years and 8 months after reaching 5 billion.
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K-pop tracks have shrunk by roughly 90 seconds since the early 2000s, a shift driven by short-form platforms that's reshaping how songs are built.
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AHOF performed *RUN TO YOU* on SBS Inkigayo on July 19, eleven days after their third mini album dropped.
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MAMAMOO's Whee In shared a backstage photo from Macau on July 19 with the caption 'Macau yahoo' as the group's 4WARD world tour rolls on.
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Jungwon stars in a fake ad for 'MIDNIGHT BANK'—a vampire-friendly financial institution—as ENHYPEN teases mini album 8, arriving August 21.
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A 6.33M-view fire show clip. A 3.43M-view in-character MV. Korean TV's supporting cast is pulling the kind of numbers leads used to own.
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BLACKPINK's Jennie is dropping 'Less than a Lover' on July 24. She directed it, composed it, wrote it.
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DREAMCATCHER's Sua closed out UAU's 'Playlist #Your Youth' promotions on the last broadcast stage, thanking members, dancers, staff, and fans.
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Stray Kids drop 'THIS & THAT' on August 7 at 1 PM KST. Five Seoul KSPO DOME shows kick off the 'RUN IT' world tour starting July 25.
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ILLIT's second Japanese single drops July 26 digitally, July 29 on physical formats. The rock title track was co-written by Yuika and composed by Kanata Okajima.
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Jeong Han walked out of mandatory military service on June 25. Now he's teaming up with SEVENTEEN bandmate Joshua on a unit project targeting an October album.
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Billboard's editor-selected Top 25 K-pop Songs of the First Half puts three rookie acts in the top four, with Kiki's '404 (New Era)' at No. 1.
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JTBC's 'Apartment' airs Episode 4 on July 19 as Ji-sung's character's violent past at an illegal gambling den becomes a wild card in the 17.8 billion won scheme.
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Jang Han-byeol's fan cafe 은하수 hit 20,000 members on July 19, outpacing all other Top 7 contestants on MBN's trot show 무명전설.
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A golf course witness spotted the couple together, describing them as visibly affectionate. They've been publicly dating for three years.
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The 18-year-old trot singer appeared on KBS 2TV's '살림남' on July 18, confessing she lost sleep over excitement at meeting Eun Ji-won.
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Park Seo-jin transformed his sister into a tiger and golden Buddha statue for a 3 million won prize at the costume play competition.
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AIDITT staged a surprise guerrilla concert at Seoul's Cheonggyecheon Plaza on July 18, with fans decoding the location from teaser content released two days prior.
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Lee So-ra's first single in seven years pairs her with Jannabi's Choi Jung-hoon and Kim Do-hyung on a summer breakup track.
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ILLIT's *It's Me* hit 100 million YouTube views on July 18, becoming their second music video to reach the milestone.
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CORTIS kicked off their first tour in Incheon on July 18, but the 1 hour 40 minute runtime and heavy track repetition left fans unimpressed.
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A comedian-turned-rapper showed up at RBW with a team name and a dream. The composers who made 'Club Arirang' gave him a hard no instead.
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Irene wrapped her first solo Asia tour with a sold-out Bangkok show on July 18. Red Velvet reunites as a full group on August 3 with 'Velvet Summer'.
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KiiiKiii wrapped their YouTube series on July 17 and are coming back mid-August. More details coming soon.
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'Seven' hit No. 181 on the July 18 Billboard Global (Excl. US) chart, cementing its status as the longest-charting song by an Asian solo artist on that list.
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TVXQ's Yunho stopped by MBC's 전지적 참견 시점 on July 18 to talk solo concert prep for 'Time's Tickin'' and the relentless discipline that baffles his friends.
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Jimin's special package version hit #1 on iTunes in France, Japan, and 5 other countries after *Normal* landed on Spotify July 17.
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Yu Seong-eun hit 97 points singing Im Chang-jung's *또다시 사랑* on TV CHOSUN's '금타는 금요일' — and he asked her to collab on the spot.
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포레스텔라 arrived as 6-time consecutive 왕중왕전 champions on KBS2's July 18 episode. Nine rival teams waited, including 리베란테, who declared open war.
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tvN's occult romance *오싹한 연애* premiered July 18 at 9:10 PM, starring Park Eun-bin, Yang Se-jong, and Ong Seong-wu.
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fromis_9 dropped a live preview of 'Vitamin ME' on Dingo Music's Killing Voice on July 14. Their second regular album 'Glow ME' arrives July 21.
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Na Hong-jin's first film in 10 years crossed 1 million admissions on its 4th day. Its distributor's parent company is in corporate rehabilitation.
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Lisénne's August 2024 track 'Love Attack' hit No. 1 on Melon roughly two years later, on July 12, 2026.
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The Muse Entertainment launched a dedicated fan-reporting site on July 16 as RESCENE faces malicious abuse allegations. Member Mae says the story has been "greatly distorted."
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The six-member group's title track "Sign" placed #9 on Billboard's 2026 Best K-pop Songs 25 list on July 16, days before their first-ever Seoul fan concert.
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