From South Korea's top groups making history to new music, movie and drama announcements, we're rounding up the biggest news from the Korean entertainment scene this week
Last week, we saw the news of Got7's Bam Bam and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon making solo releases. Comebacks and solo projects announcements continue this week, with EXO's D.O making his solo debut and 2PM making their highly anticipated return to the music scene. Elsewhere, we have two top groups, BTS and Twice making history at the Billboard charts this week.
In the acting industry, Netflix announced a new action movie while the upcoming K-drama, You Are My Spring released its official trailer. There are also casting news for School 2021 and a new romance drama starring Song Kang and Park Min-young. Find out all that and more in this week's Korean entertainment round-up.
In case you missed last week's round-up, read it here. You can read the latest round-up for June here.
BTS makes (more) history with "Butter"
Pop juggernaut group, BTS remains on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her summer smash hit, Butter, charting at number one for a fourth consecutive week. This milestone makes BTS the first Asian act in history to achieve this.
Butter also spend the entire month of June at number one, which is significant given that June is BTS' debut anniversary month. The song drew 12.5 million streams in the US and sold 111,4000 downloads in the week of June 17.
It was also reported that the BTS Meal, in collaboration with McDonald's has sold over 1.2 million sets in South Korea alone, since its release. This sales number marks the first time that McDonald's in South Korea has sold over one million units of a set, consisting solely of side menu items. In the Philippines, it has sold 2.5 million pieces on its launch day.
See also: McDonald's x BTS Meal: 14 Ways Fans Have Repurposed The Packaging