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Release dates, title tracks when announced, and source links where verification records are available. Updated as new details are confirmed.

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Release details do not always arrive in one notice. An agency may confirm a date first, add an album or title-track name later, and publish a time separately. KpopComebacks organizes those pieces into one dated schedule, shows when the data was last updated, and adds source links and review dates to entries whose source checks are complete.

The calendar is the spine: confirmed releases we track across Korean, Japanese, US, and UK schedules, with the album or single title, the title track when identified, and a release time only when one has been announced for a defined timezone. Unconfirmed details appear as TBA or a dash, or stay blank, instead of being filled with a reasonable guess — a wrong release time is worse than a missing one when someone is setting an alarm for 6PM KST from another continent. How that line gets drawn is written out on the verification page.

The writing around it handles what a schedule cannot. Monthly previews follow title tracks, rollouts and formats for each month, with the full day-by-day list on its calendar page. K-pop 101 explains vocabulary used in announcements — what a comeback is when nobody went anywhere, why one album ships in several versions, and how music-show scoring works. Lore separates official fictional universes from fan interpretation and reports the real histories behind groups. Spotlight closely reads one official music video or stage at a time.