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Falling Up (Stray Kids Song)
"Falling Up" is a song by South Korean boy band Stray Kids, taken from their second Japanese-language studio album ''Giant'' (2024). It was released as a single in three versions—Japanese, English, and Korean—along with "Night" by Epic Records Japan and JYP Entertainment on October 7, 2024. The song serves as an ending theme for the "Workshop Battle" arc of the second season of ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God''. Background and release In 2020, Stray Kids previously performed the ending theme "Slump" for the Japanese anime adaption of South Korean webtoon series ''Tower of God'', titled ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God''. "Slump" was later released as a B-side for the Japanese debut single "Top", which debuted atop the Oricon Singles Chart, making the group the fourth foreign artist to do so in history after Jang Keun-suk, Exo, and iKon. The second season of ''Kami no Tō: Tower of God'' was announced in November 2023, and premiered in July next year, which the first arc "Return of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stray Kids
Stray Kids (often abbreviated to SKZ; ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment. The band consists of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han (musician), Han, Felix (rapper), Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. For undisclosed personal reasons, Kim Woojin, Woojin left the band in October 2019. Stray Kids primarily self-produce its recordings; the main production team is named 3Racha and consists of Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, and the other members frequently participate in songwriting. Bang Chan handpicked each member to be a part of the band before the filming of the eponymous Stray Kids (TV program), 2017 reality television show, which is uncommon in K-Pop where that power typically lies with executives and creative directors. The band released their unofficial debut extended play (EP) ''Mixtape (Stray Kids EP), Mixtape'' in January 2018 and officially debuted on March 25 with the EP ''I Am Not'', which was followed by the EPs ''I Am Who'' and ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of God
is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by S.I.U. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon since June 2010, with the individual chapters collected and published by Young Com in 18 volumes as of January 2025. ''Tower of God'' received official English translations by Line Webtoon beginning in July 2014. It has received several mobile game adaptations and merchandise. In Japan, the web manhwa received an anime television series adaptation by Telecom Animation Film that first premiered on Naver Series On in South Korea, and aired in Japan immediately afterward. It originally aired from April to June 2020. A Tower of God season 2, second season produced by The Answer Studio aired from July to December 2024. Synopsis Premise ''Tower of God'' centers around a boy named Twenty-Fifth Bam. He has spent most of his life trapped beneath a vast and mysterious Tower, with only his close friend, Rachel, to keep him compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han (musician)
Han Ji-sung (; born September 14, 2000), known professionally as Han, is a South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids and its production team, 3Racha, both affiliated with JYP Entertainment. Han has been a full member of the Korea Music Copyright Association since February 2023, making him the youngest K-pop idol to be awarded such membership. As of May 2025, Han has registered songwriting and production credits for 174 songs, including "Paradise" by NiziU, "No Idea" by Show Lo, "Nevermind" by Yao Chen, "Yolo-konde" by JO1, and "Run With Me" by Nexz. He has also received credits on collaborative tracks with artists including American rapper Lil Durk, Japanese rapper Sky-Hi, Korean-American rapper Tiger JK, and Japanese singer-songwriter Lisa. Early life and education Han Ji-sung was born on September 14, 2000, in Incheon, South Korea, though his family moved to Mokpo when he was very young. As the younger of two sons, Han a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3Racha
Stray Kids (often abbreviated to SKZ; ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment. The band consists of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. For undisclosed personal reasons, Woojin left the band in October 2019. Stray Kids primarily self-produce its recordings; the main production team is named 3Racha and consists of Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, and the other members frequently participate in songwriting. Bang Chan handpicked each member to be a part of the band before the filming of the eponymous 2017 reality television show, which is uncommon in K-Pop where that power typically lies with executives and creative directors. The band released their unofficial debut extended play (EP) ''Mixtape'' in January 2018 and officially debuted on March 25 with the EP '' I Am Not'', which was followed by the EPs ''I Am Who'' and '' I Am You'', completing the ''I Am'' EP series. The ''Clé'' trilogy, consisting of '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genius (company)
Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. The company is known for its eponymous website that serves as a database for song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents, in which users can provide annotations and interpretations for. Originally launched as Rap Genius, with a focus on hip-hop music, the company attracted the attention and support of celebrities, and venture capital enabling further growth. The site expanded in 2014 to cover other forms of media, such as pop, literature, and R&B, and added an annotation-embedded platform. That same year, an iPhone app was released. To reflect these new goals, the site relaunched as Genius in July 2014. An Android version was released in August 2015, and in 2016 and 2017, the company began producing music-focused original video content and hosting live events and concerts. History Lyric sites before Rap Exegesis (2000s) Prior to the creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trap-pop
Trap music, also known simply as trap, is a subgenre of hip-hop music which originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound of trap appearing in 1999. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music is known for its simple, rhythmic, minimalistic productions that use synthesized drums, and is characterized by complex hi-hat patterns, snare drums, bass drums, some tuned with a long decay to emit a bass frequency (originally from the Roland TR-808 drum machine), and lyrical content that often focuses on drug use and urban violence. Pioneers of the genre include producers DJ Spanish Fly, DJ Paul & Juicy J, Kurtis Mantronik, Mannie Fresh, Shawty Redd, Fatboi, Zaytoven, DJ Screw, and DJ Toomp, along with rappers T.I., Jeezy, and Gucci Mane. The style was popularized by producer Lex Luger, who produced the influential Waka Flocka Flame album ''Flockave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming service owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by East Asian cinema, East Asian media, including Anime, Japanese anime, and is headquartered in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, with a Japanese branch located in Shibuya, Tokyo. Launched in mid-2006 by a group of University of California, Berkeley, graduates, the service has over 120million registered users worldwide. Crunchyroll was previously a subsidiary of Otter Media, itself a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and from 2016 to 2018, the service partnered with Funimation, which Sony acquired in 2017 and would eventually merge into its brand in 2022 after Sony acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2021. Crunchyroll is a member of The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). "Crunchyroll-Hime", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NiziU
NiziU (; ) is a Japanese-Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan through the reality-survival program '' Nizi Project'' (2020). The group is composed of nine members: Mako, Rio, Maya, Riku, Ayaka, Mayuka, Rima, Miihi, and Nina. NiziU debuted on December 2, 2020, with the release of their debut single " Step and a Step". Career 2020: Formation and debut On January 29, 2019, JYP Entertainment announced their plans of creating a Japanese girl group, under their vision "K-pop 3.0", "Globalization by Localization". Auditions for this new girl group took place in eight Japanese cities, Hawaii, and Los Angeles, for females aged between 15 and 22 years old. NiziU was formed through '' Nizi Project'', featuring 26 contestants and was aired weekly on Hulu Japan Japan from January 31 to June 26, 2020. It was distributed internationally through JYP Entertainment's official YouTube channel. The show was split up into two seasons: the first season show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of God Season 2
''Tower of God'' is an anime television series based on S.I.U.'s manhwa of the same name. The second season of the anime adapts up to chapter 110 of the second volume of the manhwa. It premiered on July 7, 2024, and aired in two consecutive story arc cours on Tokyo MX and other networks. The first part, titled ''Tower of God: Return of the Prince'' aired from July 7, 2024 to September 29, 2024. The second part, titled ''Tower of God: Workshop Battle'' aired from October 6, 2024 to December 29, 2024. It is produced by The Answer Studio and directed by Akira Suzuki, with Kazuyoshi Takeuchi serving as chief director. Erika Yoshida worked on the series composition, with character designs by Miho Tanino, Seigo Kitazawa and Yoshimitsu Kashima, and music by Kevin Penkin. The second season is set six years after the events of the first, on the 20th floor, where the ''Regulars'' are screened once again. Despite struggling to advance, Ja Wangnan remains determined to climb the tower and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IKon
iKon (; stylized as iKON) is a South Korean boy band formed in 2015 by YG Entertainment. The lineup consists of six members: Jay, Song, Bobby, DK, Ju-ne, and Chan. Originally a seven-piece band, B.I departed from the group in June 2019. Initially introduced in the reality survival show ''WIN: Who is Next'' as "Team B", the group went on to appear in the 2014 reality survival show ''Mix & Match'', which determined the final members of iKon. Their debut studio album '' Welcome Back'' (2015) debuted atop the South Korean Gaon Album Chart and featured the number-one singles "My Type", "Apology", and " Dumb & Dumber", as well as the top-ten singles "Rhythm Ta", "Airplane", and "Anthem". The album was a commercial success, selling over 260,000 copies in Asia, and its tracks collectively sold over 4.8 million copies, leading the group to receive numerous accolades from major Asian music award shows. From 2016 to 2017, iKon released the singles " #WYD" and " New Kids: Begin" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jang Keun-suk
Jang Keun-suk () is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known for starring in the Korean television dramas '' Beethoven Virus'' (2008), '' You're Beautiful'' (2009), '' Marry Me, Mary!'' (2010), '' Love Rain'' (2012), ''Bel Ami'' (2013), '' The Royal Gambler'' (2016)'', and Switch'' (2018). Early life Jang started working as a child model at the age of five after he was discovered by a talent agent. At that time, Jang's parents were selling their house and the agent, who was a prospective buyer, saw Jang. Seeing his potential, the agent advised Jang's parents to allow him to try a career in modeling. In junior high school, Jang went to school in New Zealand, where he attended Nelson College in 2003, to learn English and Japanese. Film career Pre-debut Jang made his acting debut in the 1997 HBS (now Channel CGV) sitcom ''Selling Happiness''. He then continued to work in television as a child actor. Studying in New Zealand at the time, a role in the popular MBC sitcom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
