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Bad Gyal Talks Getting Grandma’s Approval, Her Debut Album & More

When Bad Gyal (born Alba Farelo Solé) saw her grandma — her dad’s mom — supporting her at one of her shows, nothing else mattered. “I thought, ‘I can relax now,’” the Spanish hitmaker says in a one-on-one candid conversation with Billboard‘s Leila Cobo. “If she approves it, if she is looking at me with […]

VCHA Pioneering a New Era of K-Pop as Global ‘Girls of the Year’

Through K-pop’s rapid changes in the last three decades, a constant standard has been JYP Entertainment’s particular attention given to its female groups. From Wonder Girls becoming the first Korean-pop act to crack the Billboard Hot 100 to the likes of TWICE and ITZY making inroads with U.S. label deals and arena tours, plus a […]