The heartbeat of Korean pop music will pulsate by means of the halls of the Grammy Museum because it embarks on a multi-year celebration of the worldwide phenomenon by spotlighting two trailblazing acts.
To kick off the brand new initiative, Billboard can completely reveal that the Grammy Museum will current KQ ENT. (ATEEZ & xikers): A Grammy Museum Pop-Up for a restricted time starting subsequent month.
Contained in the museum’s third-floor pink carpet gallery, the pop-up exhibit will characteristic boy bands ATEEZ and xikers, that are underneath the house of shortly rising Ok-pop company and administration label KQ Leisure.
The exhibit guarantees an immersive expertise for followers that includes outfits and props all through each teams’ careers. One exhibition spotlight contains props and the primary outfits worn in ATEEZ’s “Loopy Kind” music video, the lead single from their 2023 album THE WORLD EP.FIN: WILL, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December and has earned 278,000 equal album models within the U.S. thus far, in keeping with Luminate.
Additionally, xikers will characteristic the apparel from the music for “We Don’t Cease,” the only from their newest EP, HOUSE OF TRICKY: Trial and Error which marked one other chart triumphant for KQ Ent. when it debuted at No. 73 on the Billboard 200 earlier this month with 13,000 equal album models in its first week. Followers also can stay up for different props, outfits and mementos from completely different KQ initiatives together with the look xikers member JUNGHOON wore for the band’s efficiency video of “TRICKY HOUSE” off their 2023 debut HOUSE OF TRICKY : Doorbell Ringing.
To this point, ATEEZ has earned 1.49 million complete equal album models within the U.S. thus far since their October 2018 debut. In the meantime, xikers has earned 70,000 complete equal album models within the U.S. as far as they strategy their one-year anniversary on March 30.
“It’s an honor to have items from our newest music launch displayed on the Grammy Museum the place so many great artists have left a chunk of their musical historical past,” ATEEZ says in a press release. “There are such a lot of components concerned within the strategy of our music creation and we’re excited to have the ability to share a few of it by means of our music video outfits and props.”
xikers provides, “We’re so grateful for the chance to have our items displayed alongside our labelmate and seniors ATEEZ, in addition to so many wonderful artists that we’ve grown up listening to. Although it’s solely been a little bit over a 12 months since our debut, we’re so completely satisfied to participate on this alternative on the Grammy Museum and hope that everybody has enjoyable all of the fascinating outfits and props which have helped create the xikers world within the music video of our newest launch.”
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Kyu Wook Kim, CEO of KQ Leisure, additionally made a uncommon public assertion as a part of the milestone.
“The worldwide unfold of Ok-pop is really exceptional and it’s a nice honor to see ATEEZ and xikers characterize Ok-pop music on the Grammy Museum,” the CEO and longtime Ok-pop govt shares. “Witnessing our artists’ exhausting work and dedication being acknowledged on such a big scale by the Grammy Museum is really a privilege and fills us with a lot delight. We purpose to proceed to do our greatest to work with our artists to interrupt boundaries in music on the worldwide stage with Ok-pop.”
The Grammy Museum additionally shared extra perception into curating its two-year Ok-pop dedication.
“Korean pop music is without doubt one of the best phenomena within the historical past of recorded music and tradition,” says Michael Sticka, President/CEO of the Grammy Museum. “The Grammy Museum plans to have a good time the world of Ok-pop, its much-deserved success, and worldwide chart-breaking artists by curating devoted displays and programming over the following two years. We stay up for launching this sequence with unique outfits and props from xikers and ATEEZ.”
KQ ENT. (ATEEZ & xikers): A Grammy Museum Pop-Up is scheduled to open on April 10 and run till June 10, launching simply forward of ATEEZ’s debut at Coachella 2024 as the primary Ok-pop boy band to carry out on the Indio competition.
Extra details about ticket reservations and the occasion might be discovered on the Grammy Museum web site.
