Servers crashed because of SNSD!

SNSD’s 2011 calendars which were on sale since November 23rd sold even hotter than hot cakes.

The calendars, which are available in desktop and wall type are put up for sale and also being auctioned on Gmarket and according to them, the overwhelming demand and massive popularity drive large traffic to the event page and subsequently crashed the server.

Pre-orders were taken until December 5th and the calendars were shipped from December 10th onwards.

'Hoot' sold more than 20k copies in Japan on Day 1

On Day 1 of its release in Japan, SNSD’s Licensed Japanese Edition of 3rd mini album ‘Hoot’ managed to secure the #2 spot on Oricon Daily Album Chart.

Released officially on December 22nd, ‘Hoot’ recorded sales of 21,271 copies, making it the 2nd hottest selling album of the day behind Ayumi Hamasaki’s ‘Love Songs’ which recorded a massive sales of 70,609 copies, also on the first day of release.

Following this a representative from the music industry said, “Previously, the licensed albums for Super Junior and SHINee only managed to secure 5th and 8th spot respectively on Oricon. Since SNSD have not officially promoted the album in Japan, I think this result is rather phenomenal. SNSD’s songs are well received and loved domestically in Korea as well as in Japan”.

Oh Jooeun Performs SNSD's Arrow Dance

Variety show newcomer, actress Oh Jooeun, confidently danced to SNSD's 'Hoot' on a recent episode of MBC every1 'Infinity Girls Season 3'.

In last week's episode, Oh Jooeun failed a mission assigned to her during the show. She was given homework by the oldest member of the show, Song Euni, to prepare a talent for the next episode. Oh Jooeun proceeded to spending her week learning SNSD's 'arrow dance' as her talent.

The actress wore a sleeveless one-piece in the subzero weather and showed off the choreography for 'Hoot' on the street. She received applause people that stopped to watch.

This episode is scheduled to air on the 23rd at 12:10 AM.

Jessica & Hyomin Doppelganger story explained!

T-ara’s Hyomin was dubbed by netizens as Jessica’s ‘Doppelganger’ AGAIN after her recent transformation.

For the sake of the promotional activities for T-ara’s latest song ‘Ya Ya Ya’, Hyomin who kept her long hair for 4 years had to transform herself to suit their new concept and that involved cutting her hair short.

Due to her hairstyle transformation, netizens commented, “After cutting her hair, she seems to resemble Jessica” and “Hyomin is Jessica’s Doppelganger”.

About this ‘Doppelganger’ matter, Hyomin commented, “Jessica and I know about this. As much as I love to keep my long hair, I also want a transformation and thus, I have decided to cut my hair. After the transformation, a lot of stories about my resemblance to Jessica came along. It was fun though”.

She added, “Of course Jessica knew about this too. During her trainee days, Jessica was told ‘There is someone who looks like you’ and upon hearing that, she actually came to look for me. Since then, there were so many stories about us looking alike. Nowadays, Jessica and I laugh along whenever we hear these Doppelganger stories”.

Lyricist Kim Leena praised Yoona in real life “I avoided the mirror..."

“Beauty indignity” of Lyricist Kim Leena from girl group SNSD member Yoona has become a topic of conversation.

Kim Leena who attended “Melon Music Award” on the 15th left a self postscript via twitter on the 17th.

She wrote, “The road in front of SNSD parted and the light shines down whenever they passed by, so it was said to be like Heaven” and praised the beauty of SNSD members.

She then wrote, “All my personal preference vanished because of Yoona’s beautiful face” Then added “I wanted to avoid the mirror after seeing Yoona in real life.”
The award winning song writer at the “2010 Melon Music Award”, Kim Leena is a lyricist well known in the music industry for her stunning beauty. Her songs include, Brown Eyed Girls’ “Abracadabra”, IU’s “A Good Day” and “Nagging”.

Sunny’s cute mistake @ Lotte World Free Christmas Concert

On December 17th, the girls performed ‘Oh!’ and ‘Gee’ at the Lotte World Free Christmas Concert right afterKBS Music Bank Year-End Special. If you noticed, they actually wore the same lovely blue costumes for the Lotte World concert as well.

Something funny happened during the ‘Gee’ performance. Sunny seemed to have ‘created her own lyrics’ at 7:23(the video below) and Yuri could not stop laughing and in fact, other girls too, notably Sooyoung and YoonA. There were some cute SunRi moments after that and Sunny was laughing throughout the performance. She must be wondering how she came up with those ‘new lines’…LOL.

Here are some of the SunRi moments captured from the fancam:

Probable conversation that took place – Yuri: OMG.. what was that?

Probable conversation that took place – Sunny: Stop laughing, Yuri…I was trying to be creative

Yuri was pointing at Sunny at the ‘Babo’ part..LOL!!!

For the rest of their performances, here is the superb quality fancam: [VIDEO]CLICK HERE

…and this article would not be complete without a close look at Sunny’s mistake: [VIDEO]CLICK HERE

The return of the eye smiles

After taking a break for over a month due to her knee injury, Tiffany will be joining the girls in their activities again in a few days time.

Tiffany will be making her first appearance ever since her injury with the rest of the SNSD members on Fuji TV’s ‘Mezamashi TV’ (Japan) which will be aired Live on December 23rd.

On December 24th, SNSD and Japan’s top artists are scheduled to attend Asahi TV’s ‘Music Station Super Live’, a year-end special program of ‘Music Station’, where Tiffany is also expected to be on stage with the girls.

On Christmas Day, December 25th, Tiffany will be making her first comeback in Korea through MBC ‘Show! Music Core Year-End Special’ where the girls are expected to deliver a powerful stage performance with the presence of all nine members on stage.

Craving for pizza this Christmas

Usually I don’t bother looking at ads but I’ll make an exception whenever SNSD appear in it. Although it’s a very short 21-second CF, the cute and lovely santarinas and the delicious-looking new ‘Chasyu Chasyu Pizza’ makes me want to eat nothing else but Pizza for this Christmas. Here’s the Christmas version of Domino’s Pizza’s CF for the newly released ‘Chasyu Chasyu Pizza’, featuring SNSD.

[VIDEO] Domino's Pizza's Christmas Special CF

SNSD crowned Best Artist in 2010 on Soribada

#1 Artist - SNSD
#1 Male Group – 2AM
#1 New Artist – Miss A
#1 Female Solo – IU
#1 Male Solo – Huh Gak
#1 Foreign Artist – Ke$ha
#1 Streaming – Bad Girl Good Girl (Miss A)
#1 Download – Bad Girl Good Girl (Miss A)
#1 Music Video – Bonamana (Super Junior)

SNSD and Kara ended 2010 with a Bang! in Japan

SNSD and Kara recorded the highest sales for new artists who ply their trade in Japan in 2010.

According to Sankei Shinbun on December 20th, based on recent Oricon sales data collected from 39,580 stores, the sales results were reflected on the ’43rd Oricon Annual Ranking 2010′.

According to the Oricon ranking system, Kara and SNSD took the #1 and #2 spot respectively in terms of sales revenue in the new artists category.

Kara collected revenue of 1.3 billion Yen (equivalent to 18 billion Won) while SNSD managed to record sales worth 880,000 million Yen (equivalent to 12 billion won) in 2010.

In terms of singles sales, SNSD’s ‘Gee’ and ‘Genie’ were ranked #1 and #2 respectively while Kara’s ‘Jumping’ came in 3rd.

SNSD’S participation in 2010 SBS Gayo Daejun confirmed!

Information

Performing artists: BoA, Super Junior, SNSD, Kara, Se7en, G-Dragon & T.O.P, 2PM, SHINee, 2AM, 2NE1, Beast, 4minute, MBLAQ, FT Island, CN BLUE, miss A, etc

Time and Date: December 29th, 2010 (Wednesday) at 9.55pm KST (LIVE Broadcast)

Venue: Ilsan Kintex

SNSD to participate in 2010 MBC Gayo Daejun

Information

Depending on the circumstances, the list of performers in each studio are subjected to changes.

Time and Date: 9.55pm KST (Friday, December 31st, 2010) – 1.40am KST (Saturday, January 1st, 2010)

Performances will be taking place in 3 studios:

Ilsan MBC Lobby: Davichi, Supreme Team, Homme, ZE:A, SG Wannabe

Ilsan MBC Studio No.5: 2AM, Narsha, miss A, Rainbow, Beast, SNSD, Seo Inyoung, CN Blue, IU, *Younha, Lim Junghee, Kara, FT Island

Ilsan MBC Studio No.6: 2AM, *2NE1, 2PM, miss A, BoA, Beast, SHINee, Seo Inyoung, SNSD, Son Dambi, Song Daegwan, Super Junior, Secret, *Sistar, After School, U-Kiss, Infinite, ZE:A, Kara, K-Will, Tae JinA, T-Ara, 4minute, Hong Jinyoung, f(x), *GD & T.O.P

*added on December 21st

SNSD picked as ‘Singer of The Year’ for 2nd consecutive year

SNSD was selected as the ‘Singer of The Year’ for the 2nd consecutive year from a survey conducted by Gallup Korea.

Gallup Korea, a specialized research company carried out a survey involving 3,401 random male and female participants, aged 13 and above to determine the ‘most favorite artist’ among these participants. The result went in favor of SNSD where 31.5% of the participants selected SNSD as their most favorite artist.

SNSD also gained massive supports in terms of different age groups. From those in their teens (above 13 years old) to those in their 50s, SNSD was selected as the #1 favorite singer, indicating that SNSD are indeed the ‘National Singers’. Based on different age groups, here are the percentages of participants who chose SNSD:

Teens (13 years old and above) – 43.2%
20s – 40.6%
30s – 43.1%
40s – 33.0%
50s – 21.6%

UPDATE: Best 5 Song Rankings of last 4 years

How Do SNSD Members Differentiate Their Shoes?

A photo under the title of 'How SNSD Members Differentiate Their Shoes' was recently posted through an internet portal site.

The photo showed Taeyeon with her foot raised during a performance. In the photo, 'Taeyeon' could be seen written in white on the bottom of her shoe. It seems as if the names of each member are written on the bottom of their shoes, as a way of making it easier for them to differentiate the identical shoes before performances.

Netizens left comments on the photo reading, "That's cute", and, "SNSD has showed off their wits."

Best Idol Actress of 2010!

Thats right, our very own Im Yoona has recently been voted #1 for Daum’s Star Ranking Poll under the category of “Best Idol Actress of 2010″!

more under the cut…

Yoona received 45.4% (98,433) of 216,632 votes while T-ara’s EunJung and JiYeon followed behind with 32.2% (71,985) and 10.9% (23,593) of votes respectively. Son DamBi ranked #4 with 5.9% (11,443) of votes while Kang MinKyung rounded up the top 5 with 5.2% (11,178) of votes.

“Hoot” Album Japan Vers. Released!

For those who have been waiting for the “Hoot” Album Japan vers., they have finally been released today. 4 versions –’Normal Edition’, ‘Limited Edition’ (ALBUM + DVD), ‘Limited Pressing’ (ALBUM + DVD), and ‘Deluxe First Press Limited Edition’ (ALBUM + DVD) — ranging from about $22.25-47.99, are ready to be bought in stores or shipped out.

The album consists of 11 Korean tracks (the 5 tracks from the original ‘Hoot’ mini album plus 6 bonus tracks from former SNSD’s albums –’Hoot’, ‘Mistake’, ‘My Best Friend’, ‘Wake Up’, ‘Snowy Wish’, ‘Gee’, ‘Genie’, ‘Oh!’, ‘Run Devil Run’, “Show! Show! Show!’, ‘Be Happy’) and although you might be thinking we have already heard them and the Japan vers. might be redunkulously overpriced, the album exclusively includes a DVD with the girls’ ‘Hoot’ music clip/mv & ‘Premium Show Case Live in Ariake Colosseum 2010.08.25′. The fact that there is an exclusive DVD has many Sones hyped up, especially Japanese Sones.

Fortunately, fans have taken pictures of the promotional displays at Shinjuku Tower record in Shibuya, Tokyo and the album itself for us to see.

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More Pictures - HERE

Notably, hiro2008@Twitter tweeted,

• “* watching the Ariake showcase live DVD *”
  
  “”Tokyo, Put it back on!!!!” 有明のライブ、思い出すなあ。”
  
  “この通訳さんの声は、、、「中年時代」さん？ (Ariake showcase DVD)”
  
  “I think the camera work and scene editing of the Ariake showcase DVD are great, featuring both #SNSD ‘s excellent formation dancing and each member’s really cute close-up shots, totally different from TV shows’ ones. Due to this, their performance looks refreshing.”

Ryu Si Won, SNSD’s Tiffany & Yuri to MC for MBC’s “2010 Gayo Daejun”

Actor Ryu Si Won will team up with SNSD’s Yuri and Tiffany to MC for the “2010 MBC Gayo Daejun“, to be held on December 31st at the MBC Dream Center.

The trio has already caused a buzz in the industry, since all three members are Hallyu stars – it comes as no surprise, therefore, that they’ve already been given a new nickname: ‘Hallyu MCs.’

MBC’s “Gayo Daejun” boasts an impressive line-up of stars for their show, which will include never-before-seen performances and special collaboration stages. Over 40 different teams and a 150-member audience are expected to appear for it.

Meanwhile, fans of Yuri and Tiffany will be delighted to know that they will also host the Christmas edition of “Music Core“ this Saturday as well, so stay tuned to allkpop!

SBS’s “2010 Gayo Daejun” to feature a special maknae performance

The youngest members of various idol groups will be coming together for a special ‘maknae show performance’ on SBS’s “2010 Gayo Daejun.”

Broadcasting live from Ilsan KINTEX on December 29th, the ‘maknae show’ for the 2010 SBS Gayo Daejun will consist of SNSD’s Seohyun, KARA’s Jiyoung, SHINee’s Taemin, 2PM’s Chansung,MBLAQ’s Mir, f(x)’s Sulli, and After School’s Lizzy.

All seven maknaes will be divided into unique circus roles to perform Britney Spears‘ “Circus.” The distribution of roles will see Taemin playing the ringleader while Sulli and Chansung will become the acrobatic couple. Meanwhile, Jiyoung will be a rhythmic gymnastics athlete.

The group recently participated in a pre-recording parodying the movie “Actresses“, which will be released before the actual event, to raise anticipation for the segment and show.

Hwang In Young PD of SBS’s “2010 Gayo Daejun” further revealed, “This was a line-up we’ve been planning since the fall. They’re busy people, so it was difficult finding time to get them all in one spot. They’ve been rehearsing on their own and finally got together on the 21st.”

To get a sample of what the performance will have in store, check out the original music video from Britney herself:

SNSD Has the Most Amount of #1 Hits in Soribada's Weekly Charts

SNSD became the most searched artist this year.

After Soribada, an online music site, analyzed its charts and search engines of 2010, it chose SNSD as the top artist.

SNSD's 'Oh!', 'Run Devil Run', and 'Hoot' all became number one hits one after the other on Soribada's weekly charts for a total of seven weeks.

'Oh!' was especially notable because it maintained its number one rank for four consecutive weeks and is also the overall number one song of 2010.

SNSD's Audio Book Recording Cut @ Night Star subbed!

A few weeks ago, SNSD were guests for the show "YaHaengSung" (Night Star Variety Show).

For a segment of the show, SNSD together with the hosts had a Audio Book Recording. The book was "The Smartest Giant in Town". For the recording, Taeyeon plays George the Giant, Yoona plays a Giraffe, Sooyoung plays a Goat, Sunny plays a fox etc.

We also previously posted a video about Sooyoung's amazing imitation of a goat (Part 1). Now, check out the other members impressive imitations too (Part 2)!

Part 1 (Re-Posted for those whom missed this)

Part 2

Whose imitation did you like best?

Japanese Release Of 'Hoot' Receives Hot Response From Fans

Girl group SNSD has shot their arrows towards Japan for the third time.

On the 21st, the Japanese version of their mini album, 'Hoot', was revealed, which was followed by a hot response.

The day before its release on the 20th, Tower Records was filled with SNSD. 'Hoot' was played endlessly throughout the store. Japanese fans, ranging from those that were not in their 20s to those in their 30s, could be seen purchasing the newly released albums.

A Tower Records store employee, Tanaka, stated, "Because the anticipation for SNSD was so high, we set up the stands a day before (20th) the release day. We have been receiving consistent calls since last week regarding the release. The positive attention is high, regardless of gender."

The hot response from fans continued online. The CD+DVD+photobook version of the mini album ranked in 2nd on Tower Records' preorder chart on the 20th, while the other two versions ranked in 9th and 10th. The mini album contains a total of five tracks, 'Hoot', 'Mistake', 'My Best Friend', 'Wake Up', and 'Snowy Wish'.

SNSD will be returning to Japan on the 22nd. They will appear on shows and begin promoting their new album.