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Top 10 Highest Grossing K-Pop Tours of the Year

Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts beginning in December, ranking the top tours, venues and promoters of 2025. We’re breaking it down further, looking at the biggest live acts, genre by genre. And on Monday (Dec. 15), we continue with K-pop. Related Top 10 Highest Grossing Rock Tours of the Year Simply put, K-pop has never […]

Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2026

Keeping track of all the upcoming releases from favorite artists can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. It’s not unusual for musicians to tease an album, then reveal a release date, only for the LP to be delayed for one reason or another (in some cases, multiple times), often without a new release date […]

ennichi ’25 Shows Why Japanese Music’s Global Moment Is Only Getting Bigger

Los Angeles became a crossroads for Japan’s fast-growing global music scene as CEIPA and the TOYOTA GROUP’s “MUSIC WAY PROJECT” brought ennichi ’25 to the city in early December. Across two days — an industry mixer on Dec. 1 and a 2,500-capacity concert on Dec. 2 — the event showcased Japan’s rising international influence and […]