[NEWS] Big Bang’s “Monster” seizes the #1 slot on UK’s “Viral Video Chart”

“Monster” from Big Bang‘s new special album is highly favored in Korea, and it’s showing it’s force overseas in the United Kingdom.

Big Bang’s “Monster” MV confidently seized the #1 spot on Britain’s Unruly Media online ‘Viral Video Chart‘ as of 8:30AM on June 5th.

Not only did “Monster” seize the #1 slot on the MV chart, it also drew major attention for coming in #1 on an all-inclusive video chart. Only a single day after being released, “Monster” had received over 650,000 shares (currently 849,127) on the site, and ranked on the top of the weekly chart.

The second place honor went to Coldplay‘s “Princess of China” featuring Rihanna, which received 440,000 shares (currently 744,359).

Unruly Media’s ‘Viral Video Chart’ is a site that introduces music videos, home videos, commercials, and more that go viral all over the world. The ranks are determined by the number of facebook shares and blog posts each of the videos receive.

In related news, Big Bang’s “Monster” has currently received over 5.5 million views in just a few days of being released, and the song is maintaining it’s #1 status across the major Korean music sites.

Source : StarNews via Nate + Viral Video Chart (via allkpop)

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[NEWS] Hyundai hopes to tap teens with YG

Two leading trendsetting companies in Korea - Hyundai Card and YG Entertainment - unveiled the result of their brand management and marketing collaboration yesterday.

Under the deal, Hyundai is helping YG Entertainment spiff up its brand by providing its expertise in brand building and design.

In return, YG is teaching the card company how to understand consumers in their teens and 20s.

Hyundai Card, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said in a release yesterday, the two companies had collaborated on an album cover and music video.

Hyundai has caused sensations in Korea by hosting high-profile pop concerts by artists such as Lady Gaga and Beyonce.

Its innovative marketing campaigns, including TV commercials and advertising designs, elevated the company to the second tier of the country’s credit card market in a short period of time.

YG Entertainment, a leading management company for artists of the Hallyu, or Korean wave, has artists including Big Bang and 2NE1 in its stable.

It is one of Korea’s top three pop artist management companies along with SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.

“An entertainment company and a credit card company have different approaches in terms of brand management and we wanted to help each other by sharing know-how,” a Hyundai spokesman said. “By learning how to understand consumers in their teens and 20s, we can expand our future customer bases.”

In their first collaboration, Hyundai Card designed Big Bang’s new album cover and produced a music video for the popular boy band’s album.

The video, for a song entitled “Monster,” features fonts used by Hyundai Card in its marketing materials.

The song “Monster” recorded by lesser-known musicians will also be available for downloading at Hyundai Card Music, a music Web site. The card company will help the musicians build their reputations, it said.

“We are going to do more than share our expertise and will come up with valuable cultural content,” the spokesman said.

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[PIC] G-DRAGON PHOTOS ON BIGBANG 1st PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION [Extraordinary 20’s] PHOTOBOOK

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[NEWS] Big Bang talks about their new song “Monster” + new contest

Hyundai Card and YG Entertainment held a press conference in Seoul on June 5th to talk about Big Bang’s rebranding project.

Big Bang member G-Dragon who was present at the event talked about their new song “Monster” saying, “This new song will remind you of Big Bang’s “Lies” and “Haru Haru” , rather than give you a look at a new and different Big Bang. A lot of things are similar, such as T.O.P and I taking turns rapping towards the beginning.”

“For “Monster”, we paid the most attention to the visual effects, and through our collaboration with Hyundai Card, we created a quality MV that’s on par with a Hollywood Blockbuster,” G-Dragon continued. “I’m wearing horns, Taeyang took on an unconventional hair style change… all of us scrambled to throw out ideas in order to create the most monster-like appearances.”

In regards to their project with Hyundai Card, he remarked, “A lot of Indie bands are reinterpreting our song “Monster”, and so we will be holding a contest. YG has plans to produce a single album for the winner of the project, and if they would like, they will also be able to collaborate with us.”

Rapper T.O.P added, “Other than the Re-Monster project, we have no other specific collaboration plans, however both companies are famous for attempting new things so I think any direction we take will be good.”

Big Bang’s maknae Seungri also remarked, “In the past, Hyundai Card had invited us when they held performances by famous artists from overseas. Through our collaboration with Hyundai Card, we hope to host high-scale performances as well.”

Source: OSEN (via allkpop)

[VOTE] VOTE FOR BIGBANG IN HANGUL SMART DOMAIN ORGANIZATION'S POPULARITY POLL

Hangul Smart Domain Organization's popularity poll for male K-pop groups is now open. The winners in this poll will be part of the first groups to have special website URLs or domains in Hangul (Korean characters).

Last May, they held a poll for girl groups and the top 3 that were awarded with Hangul domains are SNSD (http://소녀시대.홈), Kara (http://카라.홈) and the Wonder Girls (http://원더걸스.홈). Aside from .홈 (.home) URLs, their fanclub pages were also given .팬 (.fan) domains.

If BIGBANG wins, they'll get the same .home and .fan domains (Ex: 빅뱅.홈 and 빅뱅.팬) like the girl groups listed above.

How to vote

Go to http://www.cocif.org/event/event_man/main.html

Can only vote once per day per IP address. If your internet connection has a dynamic IP address, meaning you get a new IP address each time you disconnect/connect to the internet, you can vote more than once a day.

**If you're in South Korea, you can log in an additional vote by going to http://판타스틱베이비뮤비.음악/ using Internet Explorer. This should to lead to Fantastic Baby MV's page on Youtube.

Voting will be closed on 8 June (KST)

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