Thursday, July 2, 2015

[NEWS] BIGBANG’s “if you” & “SOBER” Powerful: Top Charts 2 Straight Days


BIGBANG is proving their unrivaled popularity by topping charts for 2 days in a row.

“if you” and “SOBER” unveiled at 0 hour of July 1 occupied the top 2 slots of South Korea’s 8 major music charts including Melon, Mnet, Genie, Bugs, Monkey 3, Soribada, Naver Music and Olleh.

The music video of “SOBER” has been spotlighted by foreign media including America’s Billboard and FUSE TV, and it hit 4.06 million view at 1pm on July 2. With the huge success of the fifth music video of the MADE SERIES, BIGBANG attracted a total of 113 million views on YouTube.

The same album is also to be released in Japan on July 8, and BIGBANG is expected to continue on with their enormous sensation of MADE SERIES. Albums “M” and “A” topped iTunes Pop Top Songs & Albums in Japan while ranking #1 on recochoku’s daily and mu-mo’s daily album charts.

For the first time as foreign artists, BIGBANG will be holding the Japan Dome Tour 3 years in a row this November. From Nov 12 to 15 they will be in Tokyo Dome for 4 days, and will be moving on to Kyocera Dome Osaka from Nov 20 to 22. They will be in Fukuoka Yahoo Oku Dome from Nov 28 to 29, Nagoya Dome from Dec 5 to 6, and Kyocera Osaka again from Jan 9 to 11. They will be travelling across 4 cities to perform 14 times, attracting 701,000 fans. The MADE SERIES to be released before the Dome Tour is expected to garner much popularity.

BIGBANG will be releasing new songs every 1st of the month until August, and on Sept 1 they will be unveiling the complete “MADE” album. Now they are in the middle of their World Tour, and will be in Thailand on July 11 and 12. They will then move on to the U.S., Canada and North America while performing 70 times across 15 cities joined by 1.4 million fans.

Source: YG Entertainment(OSEN)

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