How to Use K-pop in a Sentence

K-pop

noun
Definition of K-popnext
  • The world’s biggest K-pop group on the rise to stardom.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • Tzuyu moved away from home as a young teen to live and train in Seoul as a K-pop trainee.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Both blew up on TikTok and earned the group many new fans outside of the world of K-pop.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The group is also up for best K-pop and push performance of the year.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The project marks just the 19th K-pop album to top the chart, as well as the octet’s sixth title to reach the chart’s summit.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That would be the K-pop artist’s highest peak of his solo career in the U.K.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Here are 10 ways to feed your K-pop love in L.A., from cupsleeve events to dance parties.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Notably, this is just the third time in Artist 100 history that the top two are K-pop acts.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Blackpink was the first K-pop group to perform there, back in 2019, which was hailed as a major feat at the time.
    — Tiffany Ap, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That sum marks both the largest sales week for any K-pop album in 2024, and the year’s fifth-largest sales week among all albums.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 14 June 2024
  • The group debuted in 2015 and has since become one of the best-selling K-pop girl groups of all time.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • The feat marks the first time two K-pop records have held those positions in the chart’s history.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Paul Baek—a former K-pop star who founded the skin-care brand Matter of Fact—heard the same pitch.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
  • One of the things that is unique about K-pop is that the fan culture is so specific and so enormous.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Also around this time, my whole house was obsessed with K-pop.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The star became the second solo female K-pop act, and first as the lead artist, to top the chart after CL.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
  • People are making fan cams of handsome fencers set to K-pop songs.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
  • There are five new awards, each with a genre focus: pop artist of the year, pop song of the year, K-pop artist of the year, K-pop song of the year and best new artist (K-pop).
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There are five new awards, each with a genre focus: pop artist of the year, pop song of the year, K-pop artist of the year, K-pop song of the year and best new artist (K-pop).
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Bernadette loves K-pop, yoga, karaoke and spoiling her nieces and nephews.
    — Bernadette Joy, Contributor, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Bernadette loves K-pop, yoga, karaoke and spoiling her nieces and nephews.
    — Bernadette Joy, Contributor, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
  • There are often live performances from K-pop groups like Black Swan and even street karaoke.
    — Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Nowadays, with K-pop and K-drama, there's a lot more awareness of Korea.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Nowadays, with K-pop and K-dramas, there's a lot more awareness of Korea.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to learn Korean and would love to visit Seoul.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In the past, North Korea has shot at loudspeakers playing K-pop music from the South.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 2 June 2024
  • It’s got a lot of indie rock to it, but it’s also got a bit of, in a funny way, K-pop, and some Arab heritage music.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • His sister, Moon Sua, is also a K-pop artist, a member of the girl band Billlie.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The high bid price shows Kakao’s determination to take control of one of the largest K-pop labels.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The singer and K-pop star’s look also featured small, subtle pieces of silver metallic hardware on the sleeve.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025

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