NCT 2018 Empathy Album

NCT had just dropped their entire 2018 Album on March 14th called Empathy!! The album consists of 13 songs called Got My Back (Intro), BOSS, Baby Don’t Stop, GO, TOUCH, YESTODAY, Black on Black, Timeless…, the 7th Sense, WITHOUT YOU, WITHOUT YOU (Chinese ver.), Dream in a Dream, and VISION (Outro). NCT is a band that consists of 18 members, one of, if not already, the K-Pop boy band with the most members. NCT is broken down into three different subunits called NCT 127, NCT U, and NCT Dream, all under the company SM Entertainment, all three debut in different months in 2016, in the end coming together to form NCT. NCT’s name stands for the Hallyu localization project called Neo Culture Technology, meaning that the purpose of the band was to appeal to different types of cultures and correlate that into the band, being open to as many different members as they could have. The band instantly grew popular, continuing to grow in popularity, in themselves, as a team, and in spreading subcultures worldwide.

J-Hope Airplane

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O_MwlZ2dEg

Just 9 days ago, J-Hope had come out with a Hixtape called “Hope World”, the 2018 album charting No.1 on the US iTunes Album Chart! And within a day of its release, the mixtape broke into the Billboard 200, leading J-Hope to become the highest-ranked K-Pop soloist on the chart with sales that opened in less than a day!! J-Hope also released an MV called Daydream that same day, the song being one of the 7 that was a part of the Hixtapes. And now, just three days ago, J-Hope released a new MV called Airplanes with the song reaching nearly 8 million views so far! The MV and lyrics depicts J-Hope showing people what finding his dream made him do, working hard to accomplish it and how it makes him feel, knowing that he is living it. He writes how he feels relaxation, knowing that his dream was secured and that he will continue to ride on that Airplane.

J-Hope’s Hixtape

ALERT! ALERT!  J-Hope has just released his Hixtape at 14:00 in South Korea (10:00 in EST America) today!! Fans have been long anticipating when J-Hope’s next mixtapes would be released. J-Hope had been working behind the scenes to release a new, fresh, and shiny mixtape that includes seven new songs, J-Hope saying that he had been working hard on them for the past year. Big Hit, BTS’s company, had announced the release date on February 22nd, just a day after Suga’s Agust D mixtape was added to the American music sites and soon after entered the top 10 on the U.S. iTunes album chart!! The seven songs J-Hope released are called Hope World, P.O.P. (Piece of Peace) Pt. 1, Daydream, Base Line, (HANGSANG) Feat. Supreme Boi, Airplane, and Blue Side (Outro). All of the songs are out on SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Music, having multiple hashtags trending on Twitter like: #HIXTAPEisComing, #hixtape, and #jhope! J-Hope also created an MV to go along with the song Daydream, ranking up the charts! He also did a V Live with his A.R.M.Y.s to give a “behind the scenes” and talked about his mixtape when it was released called: j-hope Mixtape <Hope World> Behind. The V Live lasted for an hour and ten seconds, the chat still raging to this minute, 11 hours after it had ended! J-Hope’s mixtapes also adopted the name “Hixtapes”, A.R.M.Y.s combining the “Hope” from J-Hope’s name and “mixtapes” from the songs he was going to release. A.R.M.Y.s started talking about this slang word to him during a V Live and it went global, officially adopting the name “Hixtapes”. J-Hope released an amazing, seven Hixtapes and all A.R.M.Y.s love and support his work, thanking him for working so hard and that we look forwards to see him on stage!!!

P.S.: Hope World almost reached 1million plays on SoundCloud so far while his MV reached well over 8million! Go J-Hooope!!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3GJ0WIQ8s