HPOPSHOP ARTIST OF THE MONTH
DECEMBER 2025 

Let us celebrate 2025!

It has been a wild year for music with several albums from Stray Kids, Ateez, Enhypen, Tomorrow x Together and many more.  Many records have been broken with many groups getting global placements in foreign music charts including Stray Kids in the UK Singles Chart and Ateez charting consecutively in the UK Album Charts.

 

June saw the Military discharge of the other members of BTS and their continual solo project work and 2026 is going to be an amazing year with them releasing new music in March and a world tour to follow later in the year.

 

2026 is going to be a major celebration with rumoured comebacks by BTS, Big Bang and EXO.  Unfortunately, we may lose Zerobaseone and we await further news as to whether they will be able to continue or they will disband.  In addition, OnlyOneOf’s company went into trouble and so the band had to cease work but we hope they can manage to come back in some form.

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We have had many new groups this year including the amazing XLOV and Cortis who have both made an impact with global fans and we hope for big things next year.

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2025 has been the year for groups to discover Europe and we have had major tours hit our shores and some major record-breaking sales reported.  Ateez, Taemin and Enhypen all visited Manchester as well as London, which was great for us who live up North.  BlackPink and Stray Kids sold out major stadiums in London in the summer.  Tomorrow x Together also visited the 02 Arena in London back in March.

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Therefore, Goodbye 2025 and hello 2026 please be gentle on my wallet but amazing on my memories!

-  HelenFaye , HPOPSHOP 01.12.2025