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Korea Herald
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Le Sserafim reaches 300m Spotify streams with ‘Crazy'
Le Sserafim has achieved 300 million streams on Spotify with 'Crazy' as of Wednesday, agency Source Music said Friday, citing the platform. It is the group's fifth song to achieve the feat, following 'Antifragile,' 'Perfect Night,' 'Fearless' and 'Smart.' 'Crazy' is the title track for the group's fourth EP, which was released in August last year. The electronic dance tune made Billboard's Hot 100, entering at No. 76 and staying for another week at No. 99. The single also got Le Sserafim its first entry on the UK Official Singles Top 100, ranking No. 83. The group has concluded the Japan leg of its first international tour, 'Easy Crazy Hot.' The tour will resume in Taipei next month and will end in November with a two-day encore gig at Tokyo Dome, according to the plan it has shared so far.
USA Today
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Lauren Roberts to publish 'Powerless' novella 'Fearful': Cover reveal
Lauren Roberts to publish 'Powerless' novella 'Fearful': Cover reveal Reader beware: This story includes spoilers for 'Fearless' by Lauren Roberts, the last novel in the romantasy 'Powerless' series. Lauren Roberts, bestselling author of 'Powerless,' has something to get off her chest. Her trilogy finale 'Fearless' came out in April, but she's not done just yet – Roberts will publish a new companion novella 'Fearful' Sept. 2, she shared exclusively with USA TODAY. We've also got a peek at the cover, chock-full of Easter eggs for fans. The 'Powerless' series follows a forbidden romance between a prince and an ordinary girl who's been masquerading as someone far more powerful than she is. In the series finale, a character close to the heart of the series – Kitt – dies. 'Fearful' will hear from Kitt directly, as well as another new perspective, exploring Kitt's fear of dying and losing his loved ones. New 'Powerless' novella 'Fearful' to publish in September Anticipating readers can look to Roberts' last novella, 'Powerful,' as a guide. 'Fearful' should also be read either in tandem with or after its similar namesake novel, 'Fearless.' The idea is to answer burning questions from the novel through a new perspective. Roberts, whose career took off on BookTok after sharing her work with readers, wants to bring fans (at least some of) those answers. 'I love having almost a face-to-face interaction with the readers and I can ask them, 'What do you want?'' Roberts says. 'It's really cool for them to actually tell me, 'We want to hear about Kitt' or 'We want to hear about this story' or 'What does this mean?' and getting to answer it for them. I think it's really beautiful to have that connection.' Roberts has known she would write a 'Fearless' novella since she wrote 'Powerful' at the suggestion of her publisher, Simon & Schuster. The series has been wildly successful, with 'Fearless' setting a Simon & Schuster record for young adult fiction sales. The series' first novel was the most pre-ordered YA title in Simon & Schuster's history. 'When an author becomes this big, this fast, at such a young age, publishers often use words like 'extraordinary' and 'phenomenon' and 'blockbuster.' All of that is true for Lauren Roberts, but what matters most of all, and what is proven by the way her sales have been building through word of mouth, is that readers really love her books,' said Jonathan Karp, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, in a statement. See the cover of 'Powerless' novella 'Fearful' Roberts knows her readers appreciate a well-curated bookshelf. 'Every time we make a cover, I'm like, OK, 'What are the girls saying?'' Roberts says, laughing. The 'Fearful' cover flows seamlessly with the rest of the series' dark design but also incorporates a few Easter eggs hinting at past scenes in 'Fearless' and plot elements to come – a character's key that unlocks an old home, a burning ribbon as a callback to a scene between characters Paedyn and Blair. 'Fearful' will be the 'capstone' to 'Powerless' series but not the end of the world 'Fearful' will be the capstone to the 'Powerless' series, Roberts says. But she's got a lot more lore to the world she's built, teasing a spin-off series. '(Fearful) really does conclude everything,' Roberts says, warning readers not to fret over unanswered questions. 'But there is more to tell within the world, and you can see in 'Fearless' that there's a new map and some new places. So there's definitely more to be said about the world. But as for these characters and this story, this is the conclusion as of right now.' It's 'very bittersweet' for Roberts, who started writing the series at 18. She's now 22. She often gets asked whether she would go back and change parts of the series she wrote when she was just barely an adult. She says yes, but that only propels her to make each new book better. 'These books are a mosaic of who I was at each age,' Roberts says. 'It's really beautiful to look back and see myself grow. And so I'm excited to take what I've learned from this series and put it into something new.' Amazon to produce new fantasy series 'Powerless' Still, there's more news from the series to come – Prime Video is adapting 'Powerless' into a series from Will Gluck's Olive Bridge and Lyrical Media. Gluck's production company did the Sydney Sweeney romantic comedy 'Anyone But You' and is currently adapting 'Funny Story' by Emily Henry. The first season of 'Powerless' will follow the first novel, Deadline originally reported. Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Best books from the internet's favorite genre Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY's Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you're reading at cmulroy@
Korea Herald
04-06-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
Le Sserafim surpasses 200m views with ‘Fearless' music video
The music video for Le Sserafim's debut song garnered 200 million views on YouTube as of Tuesday, agency Source Music said Wednesday. It is the group's second music video to hit the mark after 'Antifragile,' the title track from the group's second EP. The group's debut single "Fearless' is an alternative pop tune that made both the Billboard Global 200 and Global 200 excl. US. The single amassed 300 million streams on Spotify as of April 2024. The mini album of the same title sold more than 300,000 copies in its first week, a first-ever for a K-pop girl group, and went on to notch the No. 1 spot on Oricon's Daily Album Ranking. The quintet is in the middle of its first international tour and will go live in Kitakyushu, Japan, this weekend.
Indianapolis Star
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
All Taylor Swift songs are now 'Taylor's Version.' Swift finally acquires life's work.
All Taylor Swift songs are now officially Taylor's Version. After a long and grueling feud with her previous record label and talent manager Scooter Braun, Swift now owns her masters. The superstar, who was in Indianapolis back in November on her record-breaking Eras Tour, posted a lengthy letter on her website detailing that every aspect of her career including videos, concert films, art, photography and unreleased materials is under her control. "All of the music I've ever made now belongs to me," Swift wrote. Swift credited Shamrock Capital, the private equity firm that purchased the master rights to Swift's first six albums from Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings in 2020, for giving her the opportunity to purchase every aspect of her career work. On her Instagram account, Swift posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor surrounded by her first six albums with the comment, 'You belong with me,' a nod to her hit from 2008's 'Fearless' album. Go back to November: Takeaways from Taylor Swift's final U.S. Eras Tour show in Indianapolis Swift gives a final shoutout to her fans for rallying behind her during this process. 'Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, support and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine … finally actually are," Swift wrote. Swift did confirm that she is still working on and plans to release "Reputation (Taylor's Version)" and her debut album, "Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version)." She teased fans in the letter by adding, "If you're into the idea." Swift explained she kept 'hitting a stopping point' while trying to remake "Reputation," adding, 'all that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first six that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it.' Swift did note that her self-titled country-rooted debut from 2006 – has been rerecorded and added 'I love how it sounds now.' Story continues after photo gallery. Swift has very publicly spoken about how important it is to her to own her own music, but for several years, she did not own the master recordings of her first six albums. Although they were for sale in 2019, Swift claimed she was not notified they were for sale until they had already been sold, USA TODAY reported. That is what led to her re-recording these albums. "Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work," Swift wrote on X, formerly Twitter when she announced her first re-recorded album, "Fearless (Taylor's Version)." More on Taylor Swift: Here's 13 things to know about Taylor Swift Since she has songwriting credits on every song in her discography, nothing prevented her from re-recording new versions of all her songs as long as enough time has passed since the original version's release. You can tell which version of her songs are hers because she has added "(Taylor's Version)" to each track and album title. She has re-released four so far: "Fearless (Taylor's Version)," "Red (Taylor's Version)," "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" and, most recently, "1989 (Taylor's Version)." The only two albums Swift has yet to re-release are her debut, "Taylor Swift," and "Reputation," which fans theorize she did on purpose, leaving only her name and reputation left to reclaim.
Korea Herald
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Le Sserafim tops Oricon chart with 5th EP
Le Sserafim debuted atop Oricon's Daily Album Ranking with its fifth EP 'Hot,' agency Source Music said Monday. All six albums from the group, from its debut EP 'Fearless' to its previous mini album 'Crazy,' have claimed the top spot on the chart. The new EP came out Friday and sold over 567,000 copies on its release day, raising expectations for it to become the group's second million-selling album following the first LP 'Unforgiven,' which logged 1.25 million copies in sales. 'Hot' is the final installment of its autobiographical trilogy along with the EPs 'Easy' and 'Crazy.' On April 19, Le Sserafim will kick off its 'Easy Crazy Hot' tour with a two-day concert in Incheon. So far, it has confirmed 17 shows for 10 cities in Asia and will announce plans for North America soon.
