Three awards in one night, and the first one - Artist of the Year - they've won before. In 2021, BTS became the first Asian act to take the fan-voted top prize at the American Music Awards. Monday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, they did it again.
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Four days from now, aespa releases LEMONADE, their second studio album - on May 29. The tour supporting it, "2026-27 aespa LIVE TOUR - SYNK : COMPLæXITY," opened for general ticket sales on May 6. Both pieces of information were missing from earlier coverage of the announcement. Here's where things actually stand.
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ATEEZ announced Golden Hour: Part.5 with a teaser released May 22, setting a June 26 release date — four months after Part.4 debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and sold over one million physical copies.
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BTS will make a special appearance at the 2026 American Music Awards on May 25 in Las Vegas, competing for Artist of the Year, Song of the Summer, and Best Male K-Pop Artist — their first award show appearance in four years.
CONCERTS - May 21, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah
BTS will broadcast their June 13 Busan concert live to over 3,800 theaters in 80+ countries as part of the Arirang World Tour. Tickets go on sale May 28, with Korean sales at 10 a.m. KST and global sales from 10 p.m. KST.
K-WAVE - May 21, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah
Seoul police have concluded that the AI-fabricated voice recording and edited KakaoTalk screenshots used to accuse actor Kim Soo-hyun of underage dating were manufactured. An arrest warrant hearing for YouTuber Kim Se-ui is set for May 26.
K-WAVE - May 20, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah
MC Mong went live on TikTok on May 18–19 to deny allegations of illegal gambling and an affair, naming Kim Min-jong, Baekhyun, and The Boyz in an escalating dispute over One Hundred Label's collapse.
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ATEEZ will headline BST Hyde Park in London on June 28, 2026 — their only UK date of the year. Artist presale is open now; general on-sale begins May 29 via Ticketmaster UK.
K-WAVE - May 20, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah
ATEEZ will headline BST Hyde Park in London on June 28, 2026, becoming the third consecutive K-pop act to top the UK festival's bill after BLACKPINK (2023) and Stray Kids (2024).
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CORTIS debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with their second EP GREENGREEN, earning 87,000 album-equivalent units — the fastest top-three entry by a non-project K-pop group in chart history, just nine months after their debut.
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