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SEOUL (ANN/THE KOREA HERALD) – As K-pop continues to captivate audiences worldwide, an intriguing trend is emerging within the genre’s music landscape. The prevalence of English lyrics in K-pop songs is on a steady ascent, mirroring the genre’s growing international appeal. Recent data from Circle Chart reveals a significant development, with English words constituting a […]

The ratio of English words used in K-pop songs is rapidly increasing in line with the genre's popularity overseas. English words took up 41.3 percent of the lyrics of K-pop girl groups’ releases that landed on Circle Chart’s Digital Chart Top 100 in the first half of this year, according to Circle Chart. This is an increase of 18.9 percentage points compared to 2018, when the figure marked 22.4 perce...

K-pop has been increasing their boundaries and including more and more lyrics from other languages. Researches show that the ration of English words have increased drastically.