KCON
KCON 2022 Wraps With 90,000 Attendees at Los Angeles K-Pop Festival
Finally, Los Angeles again felt the full power of K-pop fandom as the scene’s premiere festival KCON made its grand return this weekend after two years away during the pandemic. Across three days of a convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center and two days of concerts in the Crypto.com Arena, KCON 2022 Los Angeles reported more than 90,000 fans in attendance in its first in-person event since 2019. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Plus, with a new, post-COVID emphasis on live streaming, the festival garnered a total viewership of 7.17 million viewers in more than 176 regions. KCON’s live comeback is a slight dip from its last in-person event (103,000 fans were reported attending in L.A. in 2019), but what 2022 can claim is some of its most ...
Bebe Rexha Joins ITZY’s Yeji & Ryujin for Surprise ‘Break My Heart Myself’ Performance at KCON 2022
Bebe Rexha made her KCON debut on Saturday (Aug. 20), joining ITZY members Yeji and Ryujin for a special performance of her 2021 song “Break My Heart Myself.” The exciting team-up took went down during the opening concert of America’s biggest K-pop festival, which is taking place this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena. Dressed in all black, Rexha strutted onto the stage during ITZY’s set and performed the ultra-personal track alongside Yeji and Ryujin, drawing thunderous applause from the packed crowd. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I love you, ITZY!” Rexha shouted to the audience while embracing her collaborators. In early June, ITZY’s Yeji and Ryujin unleashed a mesmerizing dance performance to “Break My Heart M...
10 Greatest Moments in KCON History So Far
With 10 years of perspective, one can confidentially say that the timing for launching America’s biggest K-pop festival couldn’t have been better. In the summer of 2012, K-pop was breaking into the American vernacular thanks to the massively viral success of PSY‘s “Gangnam Style.” The inescapable horsey-dance hit entered the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in September. It would spend seven consecutive weeks at the No. 2 position, coinciding with performances at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Saturday Night Live and the American Music Awards. While “Gangnam Style” was rocketing up the charts, KCON was announced as a first-of-its-kind convention/festival hybrid that looked to honor all things Korean-pop culture. Taking place at the now-shuttered Ve...
Stray Kids & P1Harmony Finalize KCON 2022 Lineup
The 2022 KCON lineup is complete after some exciting late additions. The K-pop festival shared via social media that boy bands Stray Kids and P1Harmony will join the previously announced acts for a complete, 17-artist lineup for its 2022 iteration. Stray Kids will perform on the first day of concerts, on Saturday, Aug. 20, with P1Harmony added to Day 2 on Sunday, Aug. 21. The timing comes at exciting moments in both artists’ careers this week: Stray Kids just won Billboard‘s Fan Army Face-Off 2022 and will wrap the U.S. leg of their Maniac world tour in Anaheim tonight. Meanwhile, P1Harmony dropped their new Harmony: Zero In EP today, led by the rap-rock-pop hybrid single “Doom Du Doom.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Stray Kids and P1Har...
