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• Why K-pop Looks Bigger Than a 7th-Place Market: Reading the Music Economy Through IFPI 2026

  IFPI's Global Music Report 2026 puts 2025 global recorded-music revenue at 31.7 billion USD, up 6.4% year over year — the eleventh straight year of growth and the first time the market cleared 30 billion. In that table,

  2026-07-11 · 5 min read #kpop#music-industry#business#korea#streaming

• Can the K-Pop 'System' Be Decoupled From Korea? KATSEYE as a Case Study

  KATSEYE is a six-member girl group based in Los Angeles, built by HYBE and Geffen Records through the same trainee pipeline that produces Korean idol groups — yet its members say plainly that they are a global group, not

  2026-07-11 · 6 min read #kpop#katseye#music-industry#culture#globalization

• BTS After Military Service: The Scale and Staging of the Arirang Comeback

  Arirang, the first group album BTS released after every member completed military service, came out on March 20, 2026 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 album-equivalent units in its first week — the

  2026-07-11 · 6 min read #kpop#bts#music#korea#touring

• The All-Stadium Bet: What Blackpink's 'Deadline' Says About the Economics of Female K-pop

  Blackpink's 'Deadline' World Tour was marketed as the group's first all-stadium tour, running from Goyang on July 5, 2025 to Hong Kong on January 26, 2026. The lead single 'Jump' arrived on July 11, 2025 and debuted at N

  2026-07-11 · 5 min read #kpop#blackpink#music-industry#korea#touring

• March 2025 Tech·AI·K-POP Weekly Digest: From GTC to BTS Comeback

  A comprehensive roundup of March 2025 highlights: NVIDIA GTC Blackwell Ultra announcement, Gemini 2.5 Pro topping benchmarks, MCP becoming the industry standard, DeepSeek-R1 open-source shock, BTS full-group comeback aft

  2026-03-21 · 12 min read #culture#ai#kpop#nvidia#gtc