Chartbreaker: LOONA Cracked the Code to a K-Pop U.S. Radio Crossover

LOONA member Yves didn’t believe it at first when the K-pop girl group debuted on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart last month with its snappy synth-pop single, “Star.”
“It sometimes feels unrealistic,” she says over Zoom from a conference room in Seoul. Reality will sink in, she believes, when she and LOONA’s 11 other members can all travel safely to the United States and hear it on the radio for themselves.Only a handful of Korean acts have experienced tha