[NEWS] Secret of G-Dragon’s Long-Run? 3 Songs Staying in Music Chart’s Top 10 for 4 Weeks

- 3 G-Dragon songs taking No.1 place in music show

G-Dragon is enjoying an endless popularity, sweeping music charts for four weeks in a row.

Starting from the 2 this month, G-Dragon has released the tracks of his second full solo album one by one, and now, three of his new songs “WHO YOU”, “BLACK”, and ‘CROOKED” have been staying in top 10 places for four weeks in a row, on Korea’s biggest music-streaming web-site Melon.

Three tracks staying in top 10 places four weeks after the release of a new album is a very rare case nowadays, when the rankings in music charts always change with a flood of new songs released every day.

[PIC] G-DRAGON WITH SBS INKIGAYO TROPHY

Source : SBS

[NEWS] Reviewed: G-Dragon’s Coup D’etat

On the recently released Coup D’etat, K-pop star G-Dragon has his cake and has a fanciful outfit made out of it too.

Successful pop megastars engage with a fan’s sense of fantasy. The Beyoncés, Britneys and Biebers of the world incite lusting, envy and lifestyle aspirations. One of the reasons K-pop’s prince is so magical, and not to mention wildly successful, is because he sets the imagination off in so many different directions. He gluttonously engages with identities; he is a suave superhero, a trusty sidekick (especially to his YG Entertainment brethren, like his group Big Bang), and a Tim Burton-esque cartoon villain all in one.

He has the charm of a sociopath who has mainlined decades of pop culture from an early age. He’s ingested the magnetism of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow/Edward Scissorhands/Willy Wonka, Parklife-era Damon Albarn, Snoop Dogg in Bones, Lady Gaga, Steve Urkel, Johnny Rotten, and many, many more personas. The allure of his eclecticism carries over into his music, which sometimes ends up taking a backseat in conversations about G-Dragon in the West, in favor of narratives surrounding his fashion sense.