IVE released the music video for “BLACKHOLE” through STARSHIP’s YouTube channel on 23 February 2026. The video arrives with almost no accompanying text — a link to the group’s X account and three hashtags carrying the name in Korean, English and Japanese.

Why the group name is spelled three ways

The tags read #IVE, #아이브 and #アイヴ: Latin, Hangul and Japanese katakana. This is not decoration. YouTube and Korean portals match search queries by exact string, so a fan typing 아이브 on a Korean keyboard and a fan typing アイヴ in Tokyo would otherwise miss the same upload. Agencies that operate across all three markets stack the transliterations into every description as a matter of routine. The katakana form also fixes pronunciation for Japanese readers, who have no native equivalent for the English V sound and would otherwise default to something closer to a B.

About this release

“BLACKHOLE” was published on the STARSHIP channel on 23 February 2026. STARSHIP Entertainment is the Seoul agency that formed IVE and has managed the group since its debut. The official description carries no producer or writer credits and names no featured artist, so the personnel behind the track are not documented on the video page itself.

Watching from outside Korea

아이브 is IVE written in Hangul. Watch the clip in the player on this page and check its caption menu if subtitle tracks are available.

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