Thursday, July 7, 2016

[NEWS] BIGBANG Becomes the First Korean Pop Artist to Make it on Forbes Celebrity 100 List


BIGBANG made it on this year’s Forbes Celebrity 100 list. They are the first K-Pop act to land on the list.

On July 6, Forbes published an article titled, “Bigbang Theory: How K-Pop’s Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year”.

[EXCLUSIVE] BIGBANG to Release a New Song to Complete their MADE Series


BIGBANG is coming. The K-Pop boy band is currently on a tour outside of Korea, but they are making finishing touches to their new song to complete their MADE series albums.

On July 7, YG Entertainment CEO YANG HYUN SUK posted messages between him and G-DRAGON on his Instagram page. This is not the first time that YANG HYUN SUK revealed such messages, but it became a big issue as they were talking about BIGBANG’s MADE series.

[PIC] G-DRAGON UPDATED WEIBO [160706]



[CLIP] G-DRAGON UPDATED INSTAGRAM "#BIGBANG10 #THECONCERT #0TO10 #BIGBANG10YRS #SINCE2006" [160707]

วิดีโอที่โพสต์โดย G-DRAGON (@xxxibgdrgn) เมื่อ

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[CLIP] BIGBANG10 THE CONCERT - '0.TO.10' TEASER



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[CLIP] BIGBANG - WORLD TOUR 2015~2016 [MADE] IN JAPAN : THE FINAL (Trailer_DELUXE EDITION)



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[NEWS] BIGBANG Theory: How K-Pop's Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year


As record executive Joojong Joe weaved through the packed crowd at the 19,000-capacity Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., there to see Korean boy band BIGBANG, he spotted a young Russian woman crying. She couldn’t explain why. Confident that she wasn’t in any actual distress, he moved on.

“It’s like the Backstreet Boys back in the day,” Joe says with a shrug. “A lot of people cry.” Even, it turns out, a Russian obsessed with five androgynous Korean boys. Such is the reach of the hottest global pop genre, the campy Korean variant known as K-Pop.

The top act in its niche, BIGBANG took home $44 million in pretax earnings over the past year, easily more than the $33.5 million collected by today’s highest-paid American all-male arena pop group, Maroon 5. BIGBANG will be appearing on the upcoming