Week in Review, 9/21 to 10/4
Key takeaways
Quick summary- 1Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:HEADLINES * BTS won three awards at the MTV Video Music Awards, including Song of the Year and Gro…
- 2After a break for the Chuseok holiday, welcome to a double-update edition of SB Week in Review.
- 3* Song Mi
After a break for the Chuseok holiday, welcome to a double-update edition of SB Week in Review. Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:
HEADLINES
* BTS
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won three awards at the MTV Video Music Awards, including Song of the Year and Group of the Year.
* Song Mino was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years for violating the Military Service Act.
* T.O.P and Nana confirmed they have been dating since June.
DEBUTS & COMEBACKS
* Allday Project came back with MVs for multiple songs: “Talk,” “Do It Like This,” and “Crash.”
* Ehypen dropped a B-side MV for “Stuck.”
* Yesung put out the pre-release “Winds of Time.”
* His second full album will reflect on Where We Are on October 6.
* Oneus asked listeners to “Say Yes!”
* &Team
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dropped “Good Boy,” featuring songwriting contributions from Cortis
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* Unis released “Milky Way,” their last comeback before disbandment.
* BTS
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officially released an MV for “Merry Go Round” after it premiered exclusively on Spotify.
* Kickflip dropped a pre-release MV for “Puzzle Piece” ahead of their October 6 album Kick Off the Wall Pt. 1.
* BoyNextDoor
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got loud with “Animal.”
* Minzy returned with the soaring ballad “Calling.”
* Niziu released a Korean title track, “Sour Grapes.”
* Wooah came back with an animated MV for “Voodoo Doll.”
* Keyveatz boasted that they are ‘tellin’ the world’ with “A1ㄱ.”
* Close Your Eyes mixed jazz and hip hop in “Drop That!”
* Cravity
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presented a mythic concept in the MV for “Louder.”
* TIOT leaned into rock with “Five Hours in Pieces.”
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TEASERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Hwang Minhyun will return with “Our” on October 7.
* Onew and Zico will team up for “Tic Tac Toe,” out on October 7.
* NCT
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Wish began to promote I Spy, out on October 12.
* Modyssey
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will follow up their debut with 2. Multitude: How We Bloom on October 12.
* Xdinary Heroes will release Impulse, their first comeback as a five-member group, that same day.
* Sung Hanbin revealed the tracklist for his first solo EP Dead: Alive, also out on October 12.
* Meovv promise to Go Hard with their October 12 single.
* Plave will go into Hyperdrive to distinguish themselves from the other October 12 comebacks.
* Yuju will return with File. 07 on October 14.
* Teen Top seek to regain momentum with Don’t Stop on October 15.
* Seventeen
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’s Jeonghan
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x Joshua
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will make their subunit debut on October 19 with Dreamscape.
* NMixx
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will also return with Strange Muse on October 19.
* Max Changmin will also drop All of My Life, his first official comeback since 2022, on October 19.
* Ive
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will come back with Looks Can Kill on October 26, with a pre-release single out on October 19.
* Evnne will join the slew of October 19 releases with On: Our Noise.
* Illit intend to Break Even with their October 26 comeback.
* Xlov dropped a cinematic trailer for i=!, out on October 28.
* Tomorrow x Together
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will unleash The Perfect Storm on November 16.
* Fin.K
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.L will reportedly reunite after a 21-year absence.
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OTHER NEWS
* New, formerly of The Boyz
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, signed a solo contract with Only New Entertainment.
* Taemin postponed his North American tour due to uncertainty surrounding issuance of U.S. visas for key personnel.
* Winter
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sat out performances in Aespa
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‘s U.S. tour following a shingles diagnosis.
(YouTube. Naver: [1][2][3][4][5]. X. Weverse. Images via Pledis Entertainment, SM Entertainment, Only New Entertainment).
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