SNSD’s Sunny voted as ‘Best Variety Idol’ on Daum Star Ranking

From a poll conducted from December 21st to December 27th to determine the ’2010 Best Variety Idol’, Sunny emerged as the winner as she obtained over 50,000 votes from the 7-day poll, leaving behind her closest contender IU by more than 40,000 votes. Goo Hara comes in third with 7,640 votes.

Congratulations to Sunny!

Artists who will perform at 2010 KBS Music Festival

Information

Date : 30 December 2010
Time: 9.50pm KST

List of performers:
Super Junior, SNSD, 2PM, SHINee, Kara, CNBLUE, 2AM, After School, U-Kiss, Sistar, FT Island, f(x), 4minute, Secret, IU, T-Ara, Beast, etc.

Performers for SBS Gayo Daejun

MC: Super Junior’s Kim Heechul, CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa, 2AM’s Jo Kwon and actress Hwang Jung Eum

Performers: BoA, Super Junior, SNSD, KARA, SE7EN, G-Dragon & T.O.P, 2PM, SHINee, 2AM, 2NE1, B2ST, 4minute, MBLAQ, F.T Island, CNBLUE, miss A

Time: 21: 55 ~ 23: 30 KST

It will be aired on KBS, You can also stream it at http://kpopflash.net/stream/

The Best Leader Pop Culture 2010

Picked by a panel of 42 people from related fields,

2010 years Best Public Culture Leaders 2pm ranked 6

Media, panels of industry experts and professionals,

in collaboration with Herald Economics have selected the ‘Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30‘

to acknowledge the influence and dominance in the broadcasting, films,

performances, music and entertainment industry.

SNSD’s “Hoot” mini-album ranks 2nd on Oricon’s weekly chart

SNSD’s latest mini-album, “Hoot“, has ranked second on Japan’s Oricon daily chart!

According to data revealed by Oricon on December 28th, the Korean mini-abum was released on the 22nd and had already sold 61,000 copies in its first week.

Oricon representatives revealed, “Their single for ‘Gee‘ was their best record, which placed in at second. This is the first time for SNSD to make it in the top 10 with an album.” This past August, SNSD was the first international female group to rank in on the Oricon singles weekly chart with “Gee”.

SNSD’s “Hoot” mini-album features six of their hit tracks such as “Gee,” “Genie,” “Run Devil Run,” and “Oh!”

‘Monkey3′ selects SNSD’s “Oh” as the best song of 2010

Music site Monkey3 has declared SNSD’s “Oh” to be this year’s best song.

The ‘2010 Monkey3 Best 30 Songs‘ chart was determined by a tabulation of download and streaming numbers from January 1st to December 10th, as well as by user votes. The statistics made up 90% of the results, while the user votes made up the remaining 10%.

Aside from SNSD, Jo Kwon & Ga-In’s “We Fell In Love“, CNBLUE’s “Loner“, 2AM’s “Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die“, T-ara’s “I Go Crazy Because Of You“, KARA’s “Lupin“, Rain’s “Love Song“,After School’s “Bang“, f(x)’s “NU ABO“, Wonder Girls’ “2 Different Tears“, IU & Im Seulong’s “Nagging“, Super Junior’s “Bonamana“, and miss A’s “Bad Girl Good Girl” were also on the list.

Meanwhile, this year’s ‘Weekly Chart #1′ went to miss A’s “Bad Girl Good Girl”. After miss A debuted, they were #1 for four straight weeks, fully demonstrating their remarkable power as a rookie group. Monkey3 also selected the ‘Best Duet’ to be IU & Im Seulong’s “Nagging”.

The ‘Best Artist’ was 2AM, whose song “Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die” dominated charts for the first half of the year.

'Hoot' is no.2 on Oricon with recorded sales of 61k in Week 1

Before the year ends, SNSD added another impressive achievement by securing the 2nd spot on Oricon Weekly Album Chart.

According to Oricon on December 28th, SNSD’s licensed Japanese Edition of 3rd Mini Album ‘Hoot’ recorded sales of 61,000 copies in the first week, thus making it the 2nd hottest selling album in Japan for the week.

Oricon stated, “SNSD’s single ‘Gee’ captured the 2nd spot before but not on the album chart. This is SNSD’s first top 10 entry on the album chart”.

The Japanese edition of the mini album ‘Hoot’ consists of SNSD’s hits such as ‘Tell Me Your Wish’, ‘Gee’, ‘Run Devil Run’, ‘Oh!’, etc.

SNSD awarded ‘Star of The Year’ and ‘Artist of The Year’

SNSD were awarded the ‘Star of The Year‘ and ‘Artist of The Year‘ awards by Sports Korea for 2 consecutive years.

In 2010, SNSD released 3 hit songs, ‘Oh!’, ‘Run Devil Run’ and ‘Hoot’ as well as becoming the center of girl group craze syndrome in Japan ever since their debut showcase in Ariake Coliseum in August 2010.

On December 25th at the waiting room in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, the awards came as a surprise to the girls as they could not believe they have won the two awards. Although the girls have grown into a big star across Asia, they are indeed still cute and shy girls. Here are some of the reactions from the girls after winning the awards:

Reporter: You are the ‘Star of The Year’ award winner. How do you feel?
Jessica: Yeah~!
Seohyun: I could not believe it.
Sunny: As we are still young So Nyeos, this means a lot to us and it seems surreal.

Reporter: This year SNSD have been receiving lots of love. What do you think is the factor for your popularity?
Taeyeon: I think the audiences love the ‘freshness’ of our performances everytime we come up with a new concept. Also, the expectation that goes with the change in our appearances played a major role as well.
Seohyun: Since we’re growing slowly everyday, please feel proud for us. I guess when the audience see us being happy on stage, they too, will be feeling the same.

…to be continued

SNSD ranked 4th on ‘Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30′

Year 2010 is coming to an end. Media, panels of industry experts and professionals, in collaboration with Herald Economics have selected the ‘Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30‘ to acknowledge the influence and dominance in the broadcasting, films, performances, music and entertainment industry.

SNSD who were ranked 14th last year, went up 10 places to secure the no.4 spot this year, 2 spots behind the founder of SM Entertainment, Lee Sooman.

SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ is the ‘Best Song of The Year’ on Monkey 3!

SNSD‘s ‘Oh!‘ was selected as the most popular song which received the most love in 2010 on online music site, ‘Monkey 3′.

The ’2010 Monkey 3 Best Song 30′ was selected based on the number downloads and online streaming from January 1st to December 10th (90%) and also Monkey 3 user votes (10%).

From these criteria, SNSD emerged as the winner with their hit song ‘Oh!’. As soon as it was released, ‘Oh!’ recorded an ‘all-kill’ on various music charts and went on to take the no.1 spot for the first half of the year on these charts, including the ‘Monkey 3′ chart as well.

SNSD are indeed the most popular singer of the year as their hits ‘Oh!’, ‘Run Devil Run’ and ‘Hoot’ dominated the charts as soon as they were officially released.

Through the scores calculated based on download and streaming figures from January 1st to December 10th on ‘Monkey 3′, ‘Best Artist’, ‘Longest Weekly Chart Winner’ and ‘Best Duet Song’ were also selected.

miss A’s ‘Bad Girl Good Girl’ was awarded the ‘Longest Weekly Chart Winner’ as the promising newcomers took no.1 on ‘Monkey 3 Weekly Chart’ for 4 weeks in a row. For the ‘Best Duet Song’ category, IU and Im Seulong (2AM)’s ‘Nagging’ secured the no.1 spot. 2AM on the other hand, were selected as the ‘Best Artist’.

SM Entertainment Named This Year's 'Powerman'

SM Entertainment has been chosen as the year's best 'Powerman' in the entertainment business by Sports Hankooki.

Through Sports Hankooki's recent survey asking 100 experts to choose 'This Year's Star Award', SM Entertainment received 28 votes. SM received the most votes with the question of 'Please pick the person or organ that you think influenced Korea's entertainment industry this year'.

This year, SM was acknowledged with the successful debut in Japan by SNSD. Secretary-general Kim Gilho, of the Entertainment Management Association, stated, "[SM] spread knowledge on our culture industry to Japan." KBS drama EP Kwak Kiwon stated, "They were a large influence towards half of the entertainment industry," as his reason behind choosing the company.

With their advancement into the Hallyu world, SNSD was able to take 'This Year's Star Grand Prize'. After the creation of the 'This Year's Star Award' in 2005, this is the first time a management company and a celebrity under the said company have received both the 'Powerman' and 'Star Grand Prize'. After being chosen as the 'Powerman', SM representative Kim Youngmin stated in an interview with Star Hankooki, "Without the vitalization from the Korean market, we could not safely secure the foreign market. We will emphasize on the domestic market next year."

SNSD received 36 votes, earning them the 'Star Grand Prize'. Through an interview following their win, SNSD stated, "Our first stage at the showcase in Japan is a moment that we will always remember. We want to have a world tour next year and spread knowledge on Korea all over the world." SNSD had one hit after another this year with 'Oh!', 'Run Devil Run', and 'Hoot'. Not only did their songs gain popularity, but their choreography and fashion also garnered much interest, causing a cultural phenomena. Their debut in Japan , last August, also lead the K-pop trend. Right behind SNSD in the running to taking the 'Star Grand Prize' was Wonbin, from the film 'The Man From Nowhere', with 19 votes, and Janghyuk from KBS 2TV 'Chuno' in third with 6 votes.