Billboard K-Town is an online magazine column presented weekly, on various days, by Billboard on its Billboard.com site. The column, launched on January 29, 2013, reports on K-pop music; artists, conc
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Beast's Junhyung and Hyunseung, "Fiction" KBS concert rehearsal, 29th New York Korean Festival, Overpeck County Park, October 9, 2011.
VIXX fans, Global Citizen Earth Day concert, National Mall, April 18, 2015
Local K-pop dance teams vie at Kaja Kon dance/concert, Miami Beach Convention Center, The Gleason Room Backstage, October 30, 2016
"Boombayah" is a song by South Korean girl group Blackpink for their debut single album, Square One. The song was released through YG Entertainment on August 8, 2016, simultaneously with Square One's
Billboard K-Town
…chart, setting records for K-pop on the charts; new girl group Blackpink became the fastest act to hit No. 1 on the World Digital Song Sales chart with "Boombayah", and CL's English language song "Lifted" charted at No. 94 on Billboard's Hot 100. In 2017, one group, BTS, began "dominating charts in the way no…