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Masayoshi Oishi bets ‘Kimi wa Koibito’ can carry the

Masayoshi Oishi's new single for The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Season 2 comes with a music video that contains no…

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tripleS built K-pop’s most complex system — pt.1 makes

Twenty-four members organized by fan vote, an ever-shifting sub-unit structure, a universe called ASSEMBLE26 — tripleS may be the most architecturally ambitious…

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Arashi’s disbandment single ‘Five’ shatters Japan’s Oricon first-day streaming

Arashi's 59th and final single rewrote Japan's streaming record books while saying goodbye. The numbers are real. The farewell is definitive

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Zedd remixes aespa’s LEMONADE — K-pop stakes its EDM

When Grammy-winning producer Zedd takes apart aespa's LEMONADE and puts it back together, the result is less a remix than a statement…

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05 · MUSIC

Ariana Grande made millions love her — her new

"hate that i made you love me" is not a title fragment. It is a complete sentence, a confession that names a…

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Boards of Canada return with Inferno, an 18-track challenge

The Scottish electronic duo ends its longest absence between studio albums with a release that immediately unsettles the mythology they built around…

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J.Seph bets ‘Spin-off’ can carry the solo weight KARD’s

KARD's rapper and vocalist steps out with his debut EP, a five-track project that strips away the group's co-ed dynamic and asks…

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