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WJSN survived the 7 year curse with 8 members

K-Pop Girl Groups and the 7 Year Curse

March 3, 2023

The 7 Year curse in K-Pop is a term that describes the disbandment of a group 7 years after their debut. The main cause of this seven-year-curse is that the maximum (and usual) contract of a debuting idol after the year 2010 is 7 years. After that there are negotiations between the artists and theContinue reading →

BVNDIT will make a comeback on May 25, 2022 titled Re-Original.

Re:Kpop – The K-Pop Album Releases with the “Re” Prefix

May 10, 2022

BVNDIT will make a comeback on May 25, 2022 titled Re-Original. It’s not the first album that has the “Re” prefix with a hyphen, colon or semicolon this year, as BUSTERS released re:Born on April 27, 2022 and rapper Coogie released Re:Up on January 24, 2022. There are more than 25 K-Pop releases with theContinue reading →

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K-Pop songs distributed by Kakao M not available on Spotify

February 28, 2021

On March 1, 2021 KST many K-Pop songs were disabled from Spotify. Tablo of Epik High said “Apparently a disagreement between our distributor Kakao M & Spotify has made our new album Epik High Is Here unavailable globally against our will.” Spotify entered the South Korean market on February, 2021 and Kakao M owns Melon,Continue reading →