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Ayra Starr Turned One Instagram Post Into a Pop Career Without Borders
A phone screen opened the door. What followed was a disciplined act of self-invention - from a musical childhood between Cotonou and Lagos to Grammy nominations, global stages and a third album that replaces becoming with being.
BTS Came Back Together - and Chose Home as Their Biggest Stage
After years spent proving seven individual voices could travel alone, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook returned to the same sentence. ARIRANG begins their second act where their first one started: together, in Korean, with the world listening.
Davido Made the Distance Between Lagos and Atlanta Sound Like a Dance Floor
He was sent to study business and found a studio upstairs. Fifteen years and six albums later, Davido is still turning the route between Nigeria and America into common ground.
Rosé (BLACKPINK)
Rosé (Park Chae-young) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised South Korean singer-songwriter and main vocalist of BLACKPINK, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. Her 2024 collaboration 'APT.' with Bruno Mars became the best-selling global single of 2025 per IFPI, making her the first K-pop artist nominated for Grammy Record of the Year and Song of the Year, the first to win a Brit Award, and the first female K-pop act to crack the US Billboard Hot 100 top 3. Signed to The Black Label and Atlantic Records for her solo career, Rosé is simultaneously the most-followed K-pop solo artist on Instagram and a global fashion icon as YSL's first-ever global brand ambassador.