[NEWS] G-Dragon has over 200,000 Twitter followers

Big Bang’s G-Dragon opened his Twitter account only two days ago but he already has over 200,000 followers.

G-Dragon started tweeting comments and pictures on July 16 and showed off his high popularity by signing up over 230,000 followers.

Taeyang left a welcome note for G-Dragon and G-Dragon expressed difficulties about using his Twitter account by saying, “I don’t know anything about this.”

On July 18, G-Dragon drew a lot of attention by posting a picture of him wearing a hat and mask and posting like he is riding a skateboard.

Source: Starnews (via korea.com)

[NEWS] BIGBANG ranks on Gaon Chart rankings for the First Half of 2012

< Gaon Chart National Digital Singles Ranking >
3. Big Bang – “FANTASTIC BABY” – 261,487,164 Points
5. Big Bang – “Blue” – 251,692,639 Points

< Gaon Chart National Physical Albums Ranking >
1. Big Bang – 5th Album ALIVE – 266,911 albums
6. Big Bang – Special Edition STILL ALIVE – 117,929 albums

< Online Downloads For The First Half of 2012 >
2. Big Bang – “Blue” – 2,985,936 Downloads
3. Big Bang – “FANTASTIC BABY” – 2,855,955 Downloads

< Online Chart – Streams >
3. Big Bang – “FANTASTIC BABY” – 25,713,089 Streams
6. Big Bang – “Blue” – 23,063,308 Streams

Source : Gaon (via allkpop)

[PIC] G-DRAGON HARPER'S BAZAAR KOREA MAGAZINE , AUGUST 2012

Source : book.interpark.com

[PIC] G-Dragon HQ Fantaken Pictures @Never Stop Dreaming Concert [120706] (4)

Source : #G

[NEWS] BIGBANG mentioned on America’s CNBC article about the K-Pop Phenomena

As yet another sign of K-Pop going global, the American news outlet, CNBC, has published an article on the K-Pop phenomena.

An article was published titled, ‘Move Over Bieber – Korean Pop Music Goes Global’ on July 16 in CNBC’s ‘Investing in South Korea’ section.

In it, the article mentions Big Bang , 2ne1 and Girls’ Generation and talks about the frenzy that these idol groups are creating writing the groups are, “selling out concerts within minutes worldwide, breaking through Billboard music charts and even being featured on postage stamps in Korea.”

The article also covers the growing profits and economic windfall K-Pop is generating, citing figures such as K-Pop’s industry revenues being some $3.4 billion in 2011 and also revealed K-Pop’s exports have grown annually, on average, 80 percent since 2007.

Read the full article for yourself by clicking here.

Source : CNBC (via enewsworld)

[PIC] G-DRAGON & TAEYANG AT THE STUDIO WITH VERBAL [120718]

Taeyang : With @verbal_ambush @IBGDRGN

@MINAKWON : GD and YB and Verbal #studioswaggin


Source : @Realtaeyang,@MINAKWON

[PIC] G-DRAGON IN THE BUILDING [120718]

Source : @MINAKWON

[PIC] G-DRAGON UPDATED TWITTER [120718]

G-Dragon : Tomorrow..!

Source : @IBGDRGN