“2011 Korean Pop Music Awards” committee reveals why SNSD and KARA weren’t nominated

The selection committee for the “2011 Korean Pop Music Awards” revealed why KARA, SNSD, and many others were excluded from nominations for various categories.

The committee held a press conference at the Rachel Carson Hall on the morning of January 25th, the committee revealed their nominees for a total of 25 different categories. With artists like 2NE1, miss A,Taeyang, Hot Potato, and many others up for an award, many fans were thrown off by the fact that KARA and SNSD were missing from the list.

When asked whether SNSD and KARA were purposely excluded from the nominations, Park Eun Seok replied, “There’s a lot of controversy over us not choosing popular artists for a popular music awards show, but I think that there’s a bit of confusion over the definition of ‘popular music’. Popular music does not mean the public’s music. We consider the music in its entirety, without taking the level of awareness the song has, or its public and commercial achievement.”

He continued, “We did not exclude SNSD and KARA on purpose. We did consider them, and although they made it to the finals, our results showed that miss A and 2NE1 made it further than SNSD and KARA. As you know, an awards ceremony judges the performances of others. Up until the final nominations, girl groups had to compete to get there. We did not dismiss anyone based on the premise of having won an award last year. At the finals, results showed that miss A managed to make it while the others didn’t.”

Kim Chang Nam agreed by adding, “We only took KARA’s music and promotion into consideration. Their issue with their agency does not affect being nominated for our awards.”

Choi Ji Sun stated, “In the case of girl group idol music, genre plays a large role. In my personal opinion, idol music was fresh up until last year, but it was a bit lacking this year. miss A and 2NE1 both made a considerable amount of achievements worthy of attention, which is why they were included in the nominations.”

The awards ceremony will be held on February 23rd.

Performance lineup for ‘MTV Daum Music Fest’ to be decided by netizens

With the upcoming ‘MTV Daum Music Fest’ drawing near, it was recently revealed that the singers who will stand on stage to perform will be entirely in the hands of the netizens.

MTV and Daum Communication will be holding a poll from January 25th till February 8th on their respective home pages, where netizens will be able to pick their favorite artists for the festival’s lineup. The artists have been divided into a total of ten categories to match the concept of the concert, some of which include, “Dynamic”, “Sexy”, and “Trendy“.

From red carpets to the main show, the festival is currently in the works to bring out a variety of performances and large stages to match with the global festival. To further the festivities of Asian music, MTV will be broadcasting performances live from nine countries, including Japan, China, andTaiwan.

“Having the performance lineup be directly decided by the netizens, along with the fact that our representative Hallyu singers will be introduced through broadcast in other countries, we believe this will be a meaningful concert. MTV Korea will continue to take the lead role in exposing our culture and Hallyu music to the world with these colorful music festivals,” stated MTV production director Kim Chang Woo.

The ‘MTV Daum Music Fest’ will take place on February 19th at 8 PM at the Korea University Gymnasium in Seoul.

SNSD released Run Devil Run Japanese Version!

Check out the Japanese version of SNSD's Run Devil Run here,it appears to be a bit weird for me though,still prefer the original one,how about you?

TVXQ-SNSD, Japanese Broadcast Appearences! First Public Debut of New Song

TVXQ will begin full-fledged activities in Japan.

On January 24, Japan's Sankei Sports reported, "U-Know Yunho and Choikang Changmin, the two member TVXQ, will appear in the January 28th broadcast episode of Asahi 'MUSIC STATION'"

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Also in this broadcast, SNSD, Japan's "Most Beautiful Group", whose sensational popularity is rising, will appear together, performing the Japanese version of 'Run Devil Run' the first time on stage, causing expectations to rise.
Taking off the existing youthful appearance, a basic concept in black and white, chic and sexy at the same time, will be showcased, in which people are interested whether they can continue the 'Black Soshi' fever in Japan.

On the 25th and 26th, in the Tokyo National Yoyogi Stadium, SNSD and TVXQ will appear in the opening of SM Town Live in Tokyo, in which Japanese fans are expected to be captivated.

SNSD poses with Taiwan actor Jerry Yan!

SNSD and Jerry Yan attended the Asia Model Festival Award 2 days ago.

SNSD and Jerry managed to pose together backstage.Jerry Yan is well-known among Taiwan dramas fans as he played Lee Minho's role in the taiwan version of Boys Over Flowers.

Jerry watched SNSD's LIVE performance during the ceremony,he praised that SNSD girls are professional!

All About Girls' Generation 'Paradise in Phuket' DVD teaser photos!

Check out some HQ photos of SNSD's DVD recorded in Phuket Island.

Taeyeon’s ‘I Love You’ topped ’2011 Sportschosun Power Ranking’ for Week 3 of January

From the result released on January 25th, Taeyeon‘s ‘I Love You‘ which is the OST for ‘Athena:Goddess of War‘ topped the ‘2011 Sportschosun Musician Power Ranking‘ for Week 3 of January (from January 17th to January 23rd). Although not many points were collected in terms of music chart rankings (12 points), no. of broadcasts (0 point) and no. of articles (4 points), Taeyeon’s ‘I Love You’ received a whopping 305,292 votes from fans.

TVXQ (255,977 votes) and GD & Top (17,919 votes) were ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.

The winners are selected based on the following criteria – music charts ranking (20%), no. of broadcasts (20%), no. of articles (10%) and online fan votes (50%). The weekly winners were announced on every Monday. Since fan voting carry a huge proportion of the total points, it is crucial in deciding the overall rankings.

Fans can cast their votes for their idols and view the results at Sportschosun’s website or the ‘Musician Power Ranking’ site.