Greetings everyone! We took a brief hiatus from the daily wrap-up DASH as StreamLINE rebranded to Platinum Music Magazine. Today we unveil The Platinum Dash as we bring you a wrap of trending and worldwide music news that caught our attention and that we thought you would find of interest.

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Today’s Platinum Dash wrap for August 7, 2023 wrap features news about:

• New music release by SixTONES
• Upcoming releases from aespa and ALAMAT
• Jungkook of BTS, YGIG and SB19 reach lofty milestones on Spotify
• Billboard FAN Army vote duel between fandoms of SB19 and SEVENTEEN
• BE:FIRST scheduled to perform at two popular Japanese music festivals
• BTS’ Suga starts the process to serve mandatory time in the Korean military

New Music Releases

Japanese idol group SixTONES recently released their 11th single titled “Creak”, a spectacular track possessing an eclectic fusion of pop and rock elements. Read more about it below via the Platinum Mag NYC post incorporating news provided by Johnny & Associates.

Korean girl group aespa is primed to deliver another hit as they posted a music video teaser to their Twitter account for the upcoming single release "Better Things To Do with My Time", slated to drop worldwide at local time, midnight.

Filipino boy group ALAMAT is following up their summer smash "Day and Night" with a new release titled "Walang Hanggan" slated for release next Friday August 11. The six-member group composed of Tomas, Jao, Taneo, Mo, Alas and R-Ji have posted a series of teaser videos to their Twitter account.

Below you can watch the clip featuring Taneo.

Trending News

The hashtag #SB19OnBBFAFinalVoting is trending on Twitter as the final stages of Billboard's FAN ARMY vote battle is coming to an end in the next couple of days. A'TIN around the world are mobilizing and rallying around the Filipino idol group who is currently mashing up North America with a series of performances from their PAGTATAG! World Tour.

SB19 currently holds a slight lead of about 7% over the competing fanbase of K-Pop group SEVENTEEN. It will be interesting to see how this all unfolds between the two dedicated fan armies.

Detailed in a post by Soompi, the #1 source for news in Korean entertainment, BTS member Suga has initiated the process to begin mandatory military enlistment.

Milestones

The wins keep coming for BTS as a group and for the individual members' solo projects as according to a post by the BTS Charts Daily account on Twitter, Jungkook recently cemented his place in history as the first and only K-Pop solo artist to reach and pass the 33 million monthly listeners mark on Spotify.

YGIG, the six-member girl group from the Philippines, formed by SBTown Philippines, announced via Twitter that their music video for the single "IDKY" has hit the vaunted 1 million views mark. Awesome accomplishment! The talented P-Popstresses also made news as they performed at the popular K-POP CON in Korea earlier today.

SB19 continues to flourish from the overwhelming worldwide response to the PAGTATAG! EP as the lead single "GENTO" just cleared the 16 million streams mark on Spotify according to the global fan account A'TIN GLOBAL SOCIETY.

Concert Tours / Live Performances

J-Pop idol group BE:FIRST posted a couple of upcoming festival performances in Japan to their social media account. The dynamic group are set to perform at Summer Sonic 2023 August 19 and Wild Bunch Fest on September 18.

Follow the links enclosed in the posts below to see the tremendous group of talented artists on the festivals' rosters as well as get information on purchasing tickets to the highly anticipated events.

Thank you for checking out the latest Platinum Dash, the hottest buzz from the music news sphere from around the world!