How to Use K-pop in a Sentence

K-pop

noun

• 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
• There is no spectrum on which K-pop and the Tony Awards are endpoints.
  — Holly J. Morris, NPR, 13 June 2025
• 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
• Felix is a member of the eight-member K-pop group Stray Kids.
  — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Hang posters of your favorite K-pop groups, queue up some concert videos and get ready to dance all night long.
  — Maggie Griswold, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2025
• A number of singles from K-pop artists have come close to hitting the top spot on the U.K. chart in recent years.
  — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
• 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
• She is now tied for the fourth-most placements on the competitive list among K-pop soloists.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Maggie Kang, one of our directors, grew up steeped in K-pop.
  — Abby Webster, Billboard, 18 July 2025
• There are often live performances from K-pop groups like Black Swan and even street karaoke.
  — Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• No, because my goal was to be a K-pop idol, and K-pop idols didn’t really write songs.
  — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
• At halftime the K-pop group Cortis will perform.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026