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CONCERTS - Jun 29, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

BTS's European Leg Starts This Week. Every Ticket Is Gone — Here's What's Left.

BTS's Arirang World Tour European leg runs June 26 through July 18 across Madrid, Brussels, London, Munich, and Paris. All official tickets are sold out; resale options remain through each country's Ticketmaster platform.

K-WAVE - Jun 29, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

BTS Arirang World Tour 2026 Adds More Dates, Expands to 88 Shows Worldwide

BTS's Arirang World Tour has expanded to 88 shows across 23 countries after new dates were added in Jakarta and Bulacan, with the group also set to headline the FIFA World Cup Final halftime show on July 19 alongside Madonna and Shakira.

K-WAVE - Jun 29, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

HYBE Put Three Girl Groups on One Song. The Charts Answered.

Le Sserafim, Illit, and Katseye's "Iconic by Mistake" debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest-charting K-pop girl group song of 2026, testing HYBE's multi-label strategy with measurable fanbase crossover data.

Trending News - Jun 29, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

Teyana Taylor Didn't Know Janet Jackson Was Coming. That Was the Point.

The 2026 BET Awards honored Teyana Taylor with the Icon of the Year, presented in a surprise appearance by Janet Jackson. Clipse and Kendrick Lamar also led the night's winners.

REVIEWS - Jun 27, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

ATEEZ GOLDEN HOUR: Part.5 — Brazilian Funk in London, One Day Before Hyde Park

ATEEZ's GOLDEN HOUR: Part.5 delivers a Brazilian funk title track built for stadium performance and a standout b-side in "MAMACITA," while the EP's 14-minute runtime and compressed production leave its conceptual ambitions only partially fulfilled.

CONCERTS - Jun 27, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

BIGBANG Sold Out in 22 Minutes. They Haven't Toured in Nine Years.

BIGBANG's Goyang stadium shows for their 20/26 World Tour sold out in 22 minutes with 210,000 simultaneous users — the highest ticketing demand in South Korea this year — as G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Daesung launch their first world tour in nine years following a momentum-building Coachella 2026 headline.

CONCERTS - Jun 27, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

BTS Played Spain for the First Time Last Night. The Setlist Ran 26 Songs.

BTS performed in Spain for the first time on June 26 at Riyadh Air Metropolitano in Madrid, opening the Arirang World Tour's European leg with a 26-song set that debuted "Merry Go Round" live and included the now-standard Busan unit stages.

Trending News - Jun 27, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

Dua Lipa Posted Her Honeymoon. It Looked Like a Film.

Dua Lipa shared 20 honeymoon photographs from Italy on June 26, documenting her post-wedding road trip with Callum Turner through Rome, Basilicata, and Positano — a carousel that became the week's most-shared celebrity post for its relaxed specificity rather than its glamour.

K-WAVE - Jun 25, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

Joshua Stood at UNESCO's Podium in Paris Today. He Brought 10 Youth Grant Recipients With Him.

Seventeen's Joshua delivered a speech at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on June 25, representing the group as Youth Goodwill Ambassadors at the Going Together program scale-up ceremony, with 10 youth grant recipients from across the globe present alongside UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany.

K-WAVE - Jun 25, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

BTS Just Topped Japan's Year-End Chart. It Hasn't Been Done in 22 Years.

BTS's Arirang topped Oricon's First-Half 2026 Album and Combined Album rankings simultaneously — a first for any non-Japanese group — while surpassing 700,000 Japanese copies sold, the first overseas male artist to reach that mark in a six-month window since Queen in 2004.

World - Jun 25, 2026 PM EDT - Hannah

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Getting Married in Eight Days. New York City Just Confirmed It.

New York City permits, an MSG source, Chiefs player hotel bookings, and the city's own mayor have all but confirmed that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will marry at Madison Square Garden on July 3, 2026 — eight days from today — despite the couple's sustained effort to keep all details private.

K-WAVE - Jun 24, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

BTS Jungkook Becomes First Asian Artist to Reach 3 Billion Spotify Streams With ‘Seven’

ungkook of BTS has become the first Asian artist to surpass 3 billion Spotify streams with a single track, as "Seven (feat. Latto)" continues a 153-week run on the platform's global chart nearly three years after its 2023 release.

K-WAVE - Jun 24, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

Rolling Stone Called It the Biggest Music Story of 2026. NME and Complex Agreed.

BTS's Arirang has been named a best album of 2026 by Rolling Stone, NME, Complex, Telegraph, Salon, and Consequence of Sound — with critics consistently citing the group's decision to foreground Korean cultural identity as the defining choice of their post-military comeback.

K-WAVE - Jun 24, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

Lisa Is on the Cover of Vanity Fair. The Magazine Says Her Relationship Is Over.

Vanity Fair's summer cover story on Lisa includes a line suggesting her long-rumored relationship with LVMH heir Frédéric Arnault has ended — though neither party has confirmed the relationship or the breakup, and Lisa's publicist requested personal questions not be raised in the interview.

REVIEWS - Jun 24, 2026 AM EDT - Hannah

Stray Kids "Run It" — The Sound of a Group Deciding What Comes Next

Stray Kids' "Run It" is a controlled, industrial-leaning pre-release single that establishes the sonic territory of the upcoming This & That album — with Han's verse and the 3RACHA production doing the heavy lifting against a bridge that undercuts the track's own momentum.