[CLIP] BIGBANG'S MESSAGE FOR 2012 MELON MUSIC AWARDS TOP 10 [121214]

Taeyang: We're glad that our music could bring you all strength. I think that we brought happiness with our music, and that makes us happy.

TOP: We are happy that we could see the fans that we couldn't see in the past through our tour. I think our tour was healing for us.

Source : krisbrows04,@kristinekwak

[NEWS] BIGBANG win 2012 MelOn Music Awards "Top 10 Awards" & Nominated for other categories

“2012 MelOn Music Awards” have decided its top 10 artists to be nominated for the Artist of the Year award. “2012 MelOn Music Awards” sponsoring companies Loen Entertainment and MBC Plus Media announced BIGBANG, 2NE1, Busker Busker, BEAST, PSY, SISTAR, IU, Infinite, T-ara, and Huh Gak as “2012 Melon Music Awards” Top 10.

Of the Top 10 artists, 6 teams are idol groups, proving an on-going strong idol trend in K-pop industry. Moreover, global star PSY, audition sensation Busker Busker, and solo female artist IU have been picked as the Top 10 artists, too. The first round of online poll to nominate the Top 10 artists totaled almost 700,000 votes. The Top 10 artists have been picked based on this online poll (20%) and their online sales record (80%). “2012 Melon Music Awards” online voting continues until December 13 to decide which of the 10 artist teams will be the winner of each award.