Source : book.interpark.com
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
[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
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
[CLIP] G-DRAGON'S TWITTER ON NINE ENTERTAIN THAILAND TV [120717]
G-Dragon has singed up a Twitter account but he has over 190 thousand followers now.
Source : nineentertain9
[NEWS] G-DRAGON JOINS TWITTER!
Following after the footsteps of his childhood best friend Taeyang, Big Bang’s G-Dragon has joined the social networking site, Twitter.
G-Dragon created an account with the name ‘IBGDRGN’ on July 17 at approximately 7AM (KST). By 9AM (KST), G-Dragon had close to 60,000 followers and three tweets, shouting out to Taeyang and YG producer, Choice37, as well as one announcing that he has no idea what is what on Twitter.
Source : @IBGDRGN (via enewsworld)
[NEWS] BIGBANG ORIGINALLY BEING CALLED "DIAMOND"
A list of idol groups and members and what could have become their official stage names is attracting much attention among Korean netizens.
Recently on an online community site, a posting was made with the title ‘Idol’s original stage names’.
Included was a list of idol groups and members and their amusing, and some downright hilarious, stage names that they could have made famous.
Many idol groups also originally planned to debut with different stage names with Big Bang originally being called ‘Diamond’
Within Big Bang, T.O.P’s stage name was originally conceived as ‘Mark’, Daesung as ‘Big Castle’, Seungri’ as ‘Sonic’ and Taeyang as ‘Taekwon’.
Source YG Entertainment (via enewsworld)
Monday, July 16, 2012
[NEWS] BIGBANG'S M/Vs RANK ON TOP 10 MOST WATCHED K-POP MV FOR 1st HALF OF 2012
Many stellar K-Pop music videos were released on YouTube in the past six months but for those of you wondering which ones were the biggest hits, wonder no more!
YouTube released its top 10 most watched K-Pop music videos for the first half of 2012 on July 16.
Two lists were released with one taking into account the most watched music videos in Korea and the other, the most watched worldwide.
In the global list, Big Bang’s Fantastic Baby topped the ranking with over 33 million views (as of the chart’s posting). Following was another Big Bang song, Blue while Big Bang′s tracks Bad Boy and Monster also placed fourth and sixth on the list respectively.
On the domestic ranking Big Bang also took the fourth, fifth and eighth spots with Blue, Fantastic Baby and Monster respectively.
Source : youtube.co.kr (via enewsworld)
Sunday, July 15, 2012
[NEWS] BIGBANG's songs ranks on Gaon Chart rankings for the month of June 2012
The Gaon Chart is the national chart of South Korea and is intended to be the equivalent of Oriconin Japan and Billboard in the United States.Check out the chart rankings for the month of June 2012 (June 1st – June 30th) below!
< Gaon Chart National Digital Singles Ranking >
2. Big Bang – “MONSTER”
4. Big Bang – “Still Alive”
8. Big Bang – “Ego”
< Gaon Chart National Physical Albums Ranking >
1. Big Bang – ‘Special Edition Still Alive’ – 117,929 albums
< Online Downloads For The Month >
2. Big Bang – “MONSTER” – 1,389,771 Downloads
5. Big Bang – “Still Alive” – 909,487 Downloads
8. Big Bang – “EGO” – 676,463 Downloads9. Big Bang – “FEELING” – 615,925 Downloads
< Online Chart – Streams >
2. Big Bang – “MONSTER” – 9,906,385 Streams
5. Big Bang – “Still Alive” – 6,779,451 Streams
Source : gaon (via allkpop)
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
[GOODS] BIGBANG'S ALIVE 2012 MAKING COLLECTION (LIMITED EDITION)
BIGBANG’s Alive Making Collection (Limited Edition)
•Contain: 3DVD (140x190x16) + Photo Book (190x290) + Poster
•Price: KRW 38,600
•Release date: August 9, 2012
DISC1:
BIGBANG’s Alive Stage: YG On Air (Band version, Dance version, Making video)
DISC2:
BIGBANG’s Alive Music Video (Music Videos & Music Videos Making)
DISC3:
BIGBANG’s Alive Behind The Scenes (Behind Story of the Album)
Source: leesmusic (via @_BIGBANGisVIP)
[NEWS] YG Entertainment warns fans to be wary of online scam
YG Entertainment warned their fans to be wary of a performance scam on a particular ticketing site.
On July 12th, an insider from YG Entertainment informed OSEN, “GD&TOP will not be performing at a club on the 26th. Please be careful, so that you do not fall victim to a performance scam.”
Ahead of their warning, a ticketing site announced that Steve Aoki would be spinning at club Ellui in Seoul on July 26th, and that GD&TOP would be performing alongside Afrojack.
Club Elluii also reported via their official Facebook page July 12th, “Ellui has nothing to do with the UMF PRE PARTY [allegedly] taking place July 26th, for which [website] is selling tickets. The party is not taking place at any club in Seoul, and we would like to inform you that Ellui will not be hosting this event. We are currently taking legal action, so please be careful not to fall victim to a scam.”
The tickets on the site went for about $43 (50,000 KRW), and VIP rooms for about $867 (1,000,000 KRW).
Source : OSEN via Nate (via allkpop)
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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