May 4, 2023| Music Notes| Barb Dye
By Crystal Bell, Nylon | Look at the biggest songs in the U.S. right now and you’ll find a bit of... Read More → Is K-Pop Finally Mainstream? And What Does “mainstream” Even Mean in 2023?
March 9, 2023| Colorado Music-Related Business| Barb Dye
Photo: Girls’ Generation | By Michelle Toh and Gawon Bae, CNN | Kakao, one of South Korea’s top internet... Read More → A Takeover Battle for the Future of K-pop is Heating Up
January 26, 2023| Reports| Barb Dye
Photo: BTS | By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Min Joo Kim, The Washington Post | Lee Suk-jeong made good money as a... Read More → The Shadowy Groups Trying to Keep North Koreans From Listening to K-pop
November 10, 2022| Reports| Barb Dye
Photo: Artwork for Melinda Hagan’s CD! | By Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone | In 2021, CD sales increased... Read More → Jewel-Box Heroes: Why the CD Revival Is Finally Here
October 27, 2022| Reports| Barb Dye
By Lauren Cochrane, The Guardian | Travis Scott’s two shows at London’s O2 in August were a huge success,... Read More → I’m With the Brand! How Merch Saved the Music Industry
April 28, 2022| Research| Barb Dye
The Guardian | As dust from the gold rush settles, big record companies and elite artists emerge firmly on... Read More → ‘Odds are against you’: The Problem With the Music Streaming Boom
November 26, 2021| Samplings| Barb Dye
Photo: Don Cornelius (from the NPR website) | COMBO thinks you’ll find these articles regarding the... Read More → Female Conductor of Major U.S. Orchestra // BTS the Big Winners at the American Music Awards // BET Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Soul Train Getting Down
June 25, 2021| Interesting Bits| Barb Dye
Photo: South Korean boy band BTS | By Gabrielle Sanchez, Yahoo | North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un worries... Read More → INTERESTING BITS: K-pop Hater Kim Jong-Un Calls the Music a “vicious cancer”
March 25, 2021| Reports| Barb Dye
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Reuters | LONDON (Reuters) – Turn on, tune in and stay at home. That’s... Read More → REPORTS: Music Soothes Pandemic Blues as 2020 Record Sales Hit High Note
September 3, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic | The English-language single’s massive success is a career milestone for the... Read More → REPORTS: BTS’s ‘Dynamite’ Could Upend the Music Industry
August 29, 2019| Research| Barb Dye
By Shaad D’Souza | My awareness that music merchandise could be cool began, fittingly, with Kanye West.... Read More → RESEARCH: Will Merch Save or Doom the Music Industry?
June 6, 2019| Reports| Barb Dye
By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN | n February 1964, an English boy band called the Beatles made its US television... Read More → REPORTS: How a Boy Band From South Korea Became the Biggest in the World
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