K-GoodsShop ( Korea's leading online service platform operated by MSEMPIRE Inc., has launched a product integration service with Bunjang (Bungaejangter Inc.), Korea's largest C2C second-hand ...

'2025 MUSIC BANK global festival in Japan' was held at Japan's National Stadium in Tokyo on the 13th and 14th. As the first K ...

A Netflix animated film has became 2025's most-searched movie, achieving a record 96 percent Rotten Tomatoes score ...

Billboard Korea compiled the K-Pop Artist 100 in partnership with Billboard based on each artist's achievements from October ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

From top to bottom, K-pop’s top 10 artists are up from last year. Last year’s No. 10 act, iTZY, reported $6 million in ...