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Troubleshooter (EP)
''Troubleshooter'' is the third extended play by South Korean girl group Kep1er. It was released by WakeOne on October 13, 2022, and contains five tracks, including the lead single " We Fresh". Background and release On September 26, Wake One Entertainment announced Kep1er would be releasing their third extended play titled ''Troubleshooter'' on October 13. A day later, the promotional schedule was released. On September 28, the track listing was released with "We Fresh" announced as the lead single. On October 7, the highlight medley teaser video was released. A day later, the mood film teaser video was released. Music video teasers for "We Fresh" were released on October 11 and 12. Commercial performance On the day of its release alone, the EP sold more than 167,000 copies, breaking Kep1er's own record of 153,000 first-day sales achieved with their second EP '' Doublast''. ''Troubleshooter'' debuted at number 2 on South Korea's Circle Album Chart in the chart issue dated Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kep1er
Kep1er (; Korean language, Korean: 케플러; Revised Romanization of Korean, RR: ''Kepeulleo''; Japanese language, Japanese: ケプラー, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: ''Kepurā'') is a South Korean girl group formed by CJ E&M, CJ ENM through the Mnet (TV channel), Mnet reality competition show ''Girls Planet 999'' in 2021. The group consists of seven members: Kim Chae-hyun, Huening Bahiyyih, Choi Yu-jin (singer), Choi Yu-jin, Kim Da-yeon, Seo Young-eun, Ezaki Hikaru, and Shen Xiaoting. The group debuted on January 3, 2022, under the co-management of WakeOne and Swing Entertainment with their first extended play (EP) ''First Impact.'' Upon its release, the group received immediate commercial success, selling approximately 400,000 copies and peaking at number 1 on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart. In addition, both the EP and its lead single "Wa Da Da" charted on the ''Billboard Global 200'' and World Digital Songs respectively. The early success subsequently hailed them as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Of The Shops
The Top of the Shops or TOTS are the main Croatian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Croatian Phonographic Association HDU (''Hrvatska diskografska udruga''). The charts are a record of the highest selling albums in various genres in Croatia. TOTS became the official Croatian album chart in January 2006. TOTS Charts *TOTS Top 40 Domestic Albums Chart *TOTS Top 40 Foreign Albums Chart *TOTS Top 50 Combined Albums Chart TOTS certifications A music album qualifies for a platinum certification if it exceeds 15,000 copies and a gold certification for 7,000 copies sold. There are also silver and diamond certifications for selling 3,500 and 30,000 copies respectively. References {{reflist External links TOTS Charts home page Croatian Phonographic Association home pageCharts archive from 2006 Record charts Croatian music industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean-language EPs
Korean is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the national language of both South Korea and North Korea. In the south, the language is known as () and in the north, it is known as (). Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean popular culture have spread around the world through globalization and cultural exports. Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin, and specifically Yanbian Prefecture, and Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible. The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in contemporary Manchuria. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kep1er EPs
Kep1er (; Korean: 케플러; RR: ''Kepeulleo''; Japanese: ケプラー, Hepburn: ''Kepurā'') is a South Korean girl group formed by CJ ENM through the Mnet reality competition show ''Girls Planet 999'' in 2021. The group consists of seven members: Kim Chae-hyun, Huening Bahiyyih, Choi Yu-jin, Kim Da-yeon, Seo Young-eun, Ezaki Hikaru, and Shen Xiaoting. The group debuted on January 3, 2022, under the co-management of WakeOne and Swing Entertainment with their first extended play (EP) ''First Impact.'' Upon its release, the group received immediate commercial success, selling approximately 400,000 copies and peaking at number 1 on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart. In addition, both the EP and its lead single " Wa Da Da" charted on the ''Billboard Global 200'' and World Digital Songs respectively. The early success subsequently hailed them as the New Wave of the Year at several awards ceremonies, including Asia Artist Awards and Seoul Music Awards. The group's Japanese debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake One Entertainment
WakeOne (, stylised in all caps) is a South Korean entertainment company under CJ ENM's entertainment division. Their current artists include Roy Kim, Ha Hyun-sang, Jo Yu-ri, Kep1er, Zerobaseone, and Izna. History 2014–2018 The company was founded in 2014 by Son Dong-hoon under the name MMO Entertainment (MMO standing for ''Music Makes One'', the slogan of CJ ENM's flagship music channel Mnet). In September 2018, MMO and CJ ENM founded Off the Record Entertainment () to manage Iz*One (now disbanded) and Fromis 9. Pledis Entertainment was involved in the creative direction and music production of both while they were in Off the Record until Pledis CEO withdrew from being involved with Iz*One after April 2020 (Fromis 9 continued to be in the label until they fully transferred to Pledis in August 2021). Iz*One and Fromis 9 are debut groups of Mnet's girl group survival shows ''Produce 48'' and '' Idol School'', respectively. 2020–2021: Name changes, launch In March 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a Computer network, network for playback using a Media player (other), media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of Network packet, packets from a Server (computing), server to a client-server model, client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline multimedia between devices on a local area network. For example, using DLNA and a home server, or in a personal area network between two devices using Bluetooth (which uses radio waves rather than Internet Protocol, IP). Online streaming was initially popularized by RealNetworks and Microsoft in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle Chart
The Circle Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart (), tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea. Founded in 2010, it is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. History Gaon Chart was launched in February 2010 by the Korea Music Content Association, under the sponsorship of the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the aim to create a domestic national chart similar to the ''Billboard'' charts of the United States and the Oricon charts of Japan. The word ''gaon'', which means 'middle' or 'center' in Korean, was chosen to represent fairness and reliability. The chart started tracking sales from the beginning of that year. A small awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the launch ceremony on February 23, at the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. Girl group Girls' Generation was awarded the Top Artist of Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan Hot 100
The ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 is a record chart in Japan for songs. It has been compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' and Hanshin Contents Link since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at Billboard-japan.com ( JST) and every Thursday at Billboard.com ( UTC). The first number-one song on the chart was " Stay Gold" by Hikaru Utada on the issue dated January 16, 2008. The first number-one song on the chart by a non-Japanese artist was " Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis in the issue dated April 30, 2008. The current number-one on the chart as of the issue dated June 11, 2025, is "Boyz" by SixTones. Methodology From the chart's inception in 2008, to December 2010, the chart combined CD single sales data from SoundScan Japan, tracking sales at physical stores across Japan, and radio airplay figures from Japan's then 32 AM and FM radio stations sourced from the Japanese company Plantech. In December 2010, the chart expanded to include sales from online stores, as well as sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-pop
K-pop (; an abbreviation of "Korean popular music") is a form of popular music originating in South Korea. It emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians taking influence from Western Electronic dance music, dance music, hip-hop, Contemporary R&B, R&B and Rock music, rock. Today, K-pop commonly refers to the musical output of teen idol acts, chiefly girl groups and boy bands, who emphasize Visual communication, visual appeal and Performing arts, performance. As a Pop music, pop genre, K-pop is characterized by its Melody, melodic quality and cultural hybridity. K-pop can trace its origins to "rap dance", a fusion of hip-hop, techno and rock popularized by the group Seo Taiji and Boys, whose experimentation helped to modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene in the early 1990s. Their popularity with teenagers incentivized the music industry to focus on this demographic, with Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment developing the Korean idol system i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
