Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, has announced it will host 'RADAR Radio Live feat. RIIZE' on July 10. This event is a key part of Spotify's RADAR campaign for the K-Pop group RIIZE.

Hosted as part of Spotify's RADAR campaign for the group, RADAR Radio Live feat. RIIZE will shine the spotlight on the rookie artist while bringing fans in on the celebrations of the release of their first mini album, “RIIZING”. 

RADAR, Spotify's global music program for emerging artists, has played a pivotal role in catapulting the growth of rising talent. RIIZE is the first K-Pop boy group to enter the program, joining more than 900 other artists from around the world who have thrived under the initiative since its inception in 2020. Through RADAR, Spotify had previously supported artists including The Kid LAROI, Lauv, NMIXX, LE SSERAFIM,  Zior Park and more. RADAR artists have been featured on over 5,000 Spotify editorial playlists, and on average, tracked a 40% growth in monthly listeners and increased streams by over 30% in the six months since entering the program. 

Since their entry into RADAR Korea in April this year, Spotify has bolstered the growth of RIIZE with its best-in-class editorial and marketing support to fuel music discovery and foster deeper connections with listeners. In addition to a 40% growth in monthly streams, the group has also tracked a 13% increase in monthly listeners and a 12% rise in listener-generated playlists that include at least one RIIZE track .  

With nearly 4 million monthly listeners and over 210 million streams amassed since their debut last year , RIIZE’s music has scaled the globe, transcending language and cultural boundaries. The top markets streaming the group now span Japan, Indonesia, the United States, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, India and Canada . 

RADAR Radio Live feat. RIIZE

RADAR Radio Live, an initiative under the RADAR program, was conceptualized to broadcast RADAR Korea artists and their unique colors to a broader audience through interactive experiences. Set to take place in Seoul on the evening of the 10th of July, the next RADAR Radio Live event by Spotify promises fans a host of exciting activities that will immerse them in the vibrant world of RIIZE. In addition to a live talk show, the event will also feature a screening of RIIZE’s RADAR mini film, and fun activities to engage with the members in-real-life.  

RADAR Radio Live feat. RIIZE will be hosted for exclusively Spotify users, and event registration is now open till the 4th of July via the campaign microsite. The event will also be livestreamed for BRIIZE around the world on Spotify’s K-Pop ON! YouTube channel.

“It’s been thrilling to witness the growth of RIIZE as a RADAR artist," said Jungjoo Park, Spotify’s Head of Music, South Korea. "We look forward to continuing our journey with them and showcasing their diverse appeal to more listeners and fans worldwide. Through the RADAR program, Spotify aims to support various Korean artists in reaching and connecting with more listeners around the world."

K-Pop icon SEVENTEEN is back with a bang as they mark their ninth anniversary with the drop of their highly anticipated Best Album, “[17 IS RIGHT HERE]”.

To celebrate this milestone release and honor their fans’ unwavering dedication over the years, SEVENTEEN has teamed up with Spotify - the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, to let listeners in on the fun with an exclusive array of bonus content.

Having touched the hearts and lives of CARATs (SEVENTEEN fans) from across the globe, the group’s streaming numbers have soared since joining Spotify in 2016, tracking an average year-on-year growth of over 95%. Today, the group’s top markets on Spotify span the US, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore and Mexico - a testament to the power of their music in transcending regional boundaries, languages and cultures.

SEVENTEEN, TO THE WORLD

To kick off the celebrations, Spotify has unveiled a mesmerizing CGI video symbolic of the global album rollout on its platform. Premiered on @SpotifyKpop on X, the video follows the journey of a larger-than-life “[17 IS RIGHT HERE]” vinyl through majestic landscapes and into the city. 

As the vinyl traverses its path, it encounters a building that transforms into a colossal record wall, adorned with SEVENTEEN's illustrious discography spanning nine years. The display, stacked with the group’s albums, serves as a visual tribute to the group’s artistic legacy enjoyed by millions of CARATs around the world. Watch the full video here.

For more of SEVENTEEN, Spotify is also rolling out exclusive bonus content on its K-Pop ON! YouTube and video podcast channels to bring fans closer to S.COUPS, JEONGHAN, JOSHUA, JUN, HOSHI, WONWOO, WOOZI, THE 8, MINGYU, DK, SEUNGKWAN, VERNON and DINO.

Tune in on the 3rd and 10th of May to join SEVENTEEN’s ZIP Party, and watch as the members take on the Tambourine Quiz and other challenges to share their personal song recommendations from their discography. On the 12th of May, watch the boys take on an interview with a twist in a game of Spot the Liar. Spotify will also take listeners behind the scenes of SEVENTEEN’s K-Pop ON! shoot on the 14th of May.  

“We’ve always appreciated Spotify’s support for our music and in deepening our connections with CARATs around the world,” said SEVENTEEN. “We’ve worked hard on “[17 IS RIGHT HERE]”, and with Spotify to bring our fans into the celebrations of our release and 9-year journey alongside them, we hope they’ll enjoy what we’ve prepared.”

Loving SEVENTEEN and “[17 IS RIGHT HERE]”? Open the Spotify app to find out if you’re a top SEVENTEEN listener, as an exclusive digital sharecard awaits the top streamers to flex their fandom. Tune into the This is SEVENTEEN playlist to discover more from the group’s discography.

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Today, BLACKPINK fans can connect more deeply with their favorite K-Pop girl group through Spotify’s Blend feature. With Blend, listeners can merge their personal musical tastes and create personalized playlists that combine their favorite tracks with BLACKPINK’s. 

Streamed by over 20 million times in the last year alone, Spotify’s flagship South Korean hip-hop playlist ‘K-Hip-Hop +82’ evolves into ‘KrOWN’ 

• 1MILLION Dance Studio, a global leader in the dance scene, opens its official Spotify account 
•  Various playlists are revealed, including 1MILLION’s brand playlist ‘1MILLION!’ and individual playlists curated by five of its choreographers

On the world’s most popular audio subscription service Spotify, listeners are now able to meet the official brand playlist of South Korea’s world-renowned 1MILLION Dance Studio and a variety of playlists directly curated by 1MILLION’s key dancers.  1. YOOJUNG LEE - Mystery Party 

SEUNGKWAN, the vocal powerhouse from South Korean boy band SEVENTEEN, released a Spotify Single, covering Harry Styles’ As It Was. Available exclusively on Spotify, the single is a pared back version of Styles’ As It Was, which was named Spotify’s Song of the Summer 2022, having dominated global charts throughout the season. SEUNGKWAN has also released a special film to accompany the track, which can be viewed exclusively on Spotify’s K-Pop ON! Track. 

Calling all K-Pop stans! BLACKPINK is back in your area with the highly anticipated release of their second studio album, BORN PINK. To celebrate their comeback, the superstar girl group collaborated with Spotify to give all users around the world* the ability to listen to the album for free as many times as they want, and in any order they wish for the first week of release. 

Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, dropped #SpotifyPurpleU - a global campaign to celebrate the upcoming release of BTS’s new anthology album ‘Proof’ with ARMY and fans all over the world. With a series of exclusive content dedicated for BTS and fans who have long been awaiting BTS’ comeback, the #SpotifyPurpleU campaign brings much excitement and anticipation for the upcoming album arriving on June 10.First, as part of the global campaign, Spotify opens an exclusive #SpotifyPurpleU microsite. Available in eight languages including English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese and more, the microsite enables fans to create their personal #MyBTSProof sharecards based on their selected BTS tracks. Fans can also share their personalized content on social media to manifest their proof of love for BTS, and celebrate together with fans worldwide. The microsite is also packed with messages from BTS and countdown to their comeback.In addition to the microsite, listeners can find exclusive short video clips of BTS on Spotify’s ‘This Is BTS’ playlist as well as a film featuring BTS looking back on their previous eras across Spotify’s official social channels. The social channels will also feature video clips featuring BTS looking back on their previous times, era by era. Furthermore, massive #SpotifyPurpleU billboards will be up on a global scale, including in countries such as South Korea, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.Meanwhile, as part of the #SpotifyPurpleU celebration, Spotify also announced notable BTS moments on the platform. With over 35 million monthly listeners and 50 million followers worldwide, BTS broke a series of records on Spotify. For instance, BTS is the first artist from Asia and the first K-Pop artist to join the Spotify Billions Club, with its track ‘Dynamite’ which surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify in July 2021. ‘This Is BTS’ playlist has reached more than 6.5 million followers, which is the world’s largest followers for an artist’s ‘This Is’ playlist on the platform. Finally, according to Spotify Wrapped 2021, BTS was the third most-streamed artist of the year - with 4 of the 5 top K-Pop songs globally in 2021.Furthermore, since on Spotify, BTS racked up over 25.8 billion streams with more than 78 million listener-generated playlists containing at least one BTS track on Spotify1. With a 184% average year-on-year increase2 of total streams worldwide, their streams increased by approximately 185 times when comparing the total streams of 2015 to that of 2021. Dynamite, Butter, Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey), My Universe with Coldplay, FAKE LOVE were the most streamed tracks on the platform, with the US, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, India, UK, Canada and Germany as the most streaming countries. 

Spotify K-Pop Daebak playlist is now called K-Pop ON! (오).

K-Pop ON! (온) embodies the idea that ‘K-Pop is always on 100 for the whole world’. The new name is a double-entendre — combining the Korean word ‘온’ meaning, ‘100’, or ‘whole,’ with the English word ‘on’ to display the action of ‘turning on,’ a word that’s accessible to many languages around the world. K-Pop has exploded into an infectious global phenomenon and is taking over the ’whole (온)’ world. Every day in the K-Pop dreamland, there are new songs, styles, and trends and the K-Pop fandom is always-on. With K-Pop ON! (온), you’re not just turning on a playlist, you’re turning on the movement.

With over 230% growth in listening and with almost 8 Billion monthly streams globally, the genre has definitely taken over Spotify – as noted by the over 4.7M searches for “K-Pop” on the platform across the last 90 days. 

To celebrate the launch, K-Pop fans can also look forward to a wide swath of some of their favorite K-Pop artists including NMIXX, BTS, aespa, BLACKPINK, Red Velvet, NCT Dream, SEVENTEEN, ATEEZ and more on billboards around the world including LA, NYC, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan and Toronto, with more exciting content to come across the platform and Spotify’s owned channels.

Spotify - the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service - announced that JYP Entertainment’s latest group NMIXX has been selected as the first RADAR KOREA artist of the year.

To celebrate the release of TWICE’s latest mini album, Taste of Love, Spotify will launch ‘TWICE presents Taste of Love, the Enhanced Album’ available to all Free and Premium users on June 11th, 2021. Created for ONCE and new fans alike, the enhanced album is the perfect playground to experience the girls’ long-awaited six track album through content made exclusively for Spotify.

Featuring track-by-track explanations of the inspiration and idea behind each song, storylines (personal written commentary on each track) and canvases (bespoke 8-second video loops on every song), fans will also find exclusive videos of the group. 

BLACKPINK released teaser for their upcoming enhanced album on Spotify titled BLACKPINK presents The Album. Designed for loyal Blinks and new fans alike, the enhanced album launches with an exclusive, never-before-seen playlist curated by the four members of the girl group as well as personalized introduction videos from BLACKPINK’s Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa.

The unique enhanced album on Spotify comes in celebration and anticipation of the group’s upcoming studio album, “The Album” debuting next Friday, 2 October. The four-member curated playlist offers fans an exclusive look into Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa’s personal music preferences and the songs they were listening to while working on their upcoming album. From Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney’s, “FourFiveSeconds” to ROSALÍA’s “Dolerme”, to Post Malone’s “Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug)”, to Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” and more, the list offers a wide array of music that is favoured by the group. 

The introduction videos, found within the enhanced album, feature each of the individual group members sharing a special welcome message as listeners begin streaming their playlists. 

“Wondering what I was listening to while making “The Album”? Now’s your chance to take a listen.” - Lisa, BLACKPINK 

As the album release approaches on 2 October, Blinks can look forward to more exciting content rolling out on BLACKPINK Presents The Album on Spotify. The pre-tease to BLACKPINK Presents The Album can be accessed on Spotify HERE.

photo by YG Ent & Spotify

The seven-member band joins Spotify to discuss what “Dynamite” means to them especially during these unprecedented times, providing a behind-the-scenes look into their creative process. BTS also share their appreciation for ARMY and discuss how they would like to be remembered by future generations.

To provide additional perspective on BTS’ remarkable journey to this point, Spotify also talks to TIME Magazine Editor and K-Pop aficionado Kat Moon about BTS overcoming their underdog status, important milestones and breakthrough moments. Lastly, because there is no BTS without their dedicated fan base, ARMY — Spotify speaks to superfans around the world from Taiwan to the UK, including Gracie Ranan, who is responsible for ARMY anthems, to talk about BTS’ impact globally and the family they made within their fandom.

“I think it appeals to and it's easy to listen to and it's easy to enjoy for anybody, anyone of any generation, anyone. And especially with the COVID-19 situation, we wanted to write a song that has bright, uplifting lyrics. And we're really glad that people have come to enjoy this song, and get some energy from this song.”

“I think the best part is “ARMY”. They're the reason we perform. And it's their energy and their support that allows us to keep going. So they, our ARMY, our fans, are really the best part of this job.”