My S♥SD: 11/11/11

Friday, November 11, 2011

SNSD’s ‘The Boys’ breaks 200,000 physical album sales

According to the October sales figures from the Gaon Chart, SNSD scored big with their latest album, ‘The Boys‘, breaking the 200,000 physical sales mark in less than half a month! They have become the nation’s first girl group to achieve the impressive feat in such a short period.

Released on October 19th, ‘The Boys’ managed to break the 200,000 mark in less than two weeks, leading to a total of 227,994 in less than a month. This figure is enough to place SNSD in third place in yearly sales, as they trail behind Super Junior‘s ‘Mr. Simple’ (329,035 copies) and TVXQ‘s ‘Keep Your Head Down’ (244,128 sales).

“The number of albums sold for top idol artists rose higher compared with the results from the same period last year, thanks to the effects of the worldwide Hallyu Wave,” commented an analyst for Gaon.“We theorize that the increased amount of sales comes from foreign fans purchasing through online sites.”

Meanwhile, Kim Hyun Joong‘s ‘Lucky’ placed second on the monthly chart with sales of 94,784 whileJYJ snagged third place with 81,867 units moved for ‘In Heaven’.

KBS “青春不败2”超长预告视频！

一起来看看即将在明天放送的“青春不败2”长达5分钟29秒的预告视频吧！以下还附有最新的25秒预告视频！

恭喜少女时代获得本周1111“音乐银行”第一！附加其他表演视频！

今天11月11号的KBS“音乐银行”又有什么好看头呢？

本周11年11月11号的音乐银行出演者有：
孙浩英，大国男儿，徐英恩，肥猫，少女时代，李昇基，4men&Mi，AA，Ali，Beige，Boyfriend，Flower，J-Cera，MayBee，M.I.B，Ne;Mo，Noel，Norazo，Secret，Trax，Wonder Girls 以及 X-Cross

表演视频如下：
今天大赢家 SNSD - The Boys Wonder Girls - Be My Baby Wonder Girls - G.N.O Lee Seung Gi - Tonight Lee Seung Gi - Like A Friend TRAX - Blind MIB - GDM

Beige - You Can't Talk Sense To Him Flower - Broken Yesterday X-Cross - Mini Me Maybee - Good-bye Valentine D-NA / The Boss - Lady ALi - How could this be? 4men & Mi - That Man That Woman Double A - Because I'm Crazy Seo Young Eun - You Are The Only One Son Ho Young - Pretty / UglyNorazo - Sales King BOYFRIEND - Don't Touch My Girl Noel - I Miss You Secret - Love is Move 其他视频： Seo In Young - Next Week Wonder Girls - Back Stage SNSD , Beast , Leeteuk , Eunhyuk Cut Lee Seung Gi - Back Stage T-ARA Comeback Next Week

ETN公开少女时代 “THE BOYS”幕后制作过程！

续早前曾经为大家报道关于Mnet电视台公开了少女时代 “The Boys”MV的幕后制作过程以后，目前再有ETN公开关于少女时代 “The Boys”的幕后制作过程视频！大家一起来看看吧！

111111 SNSD wins Music Bank's K-Chart + Other performances

KBS "Music Bank" is back this week full of amazing performances!

Wonder Girls, Lee Seung Gi, TRAX, Son Ho Young and Beige made their comeback performances. Other amazing performances from artists including Secret, Noel, The Boss, Boyfriend, AA, Maybee, M.I.B, Flower, X-Cross, 4men & Mi.

And for the highlight of the show, SNSD wins today's Music Bank's K-Chart! The girls claimed their triple crown victory on Music Bank with their latest hit single "The Boys".

Watch the winning moment + other performances

SNSD - The Boys

Secret - Love is Move

Comeback Stage : Beige - You Can't Talk Sense To Him

Noel - I Miss You

BOYFRIEND - Don't Touch My Girl

Seo Young Eun - You Are The Only One

4men & Mi - That Man That Woman

The Boss - Lady

Double A - Because I'm Crazy

Maybee - Good-bye Valentine

M.I.B - GDM

Flower - Broken Yesterday

X-Cross - Mini Me

Girls' Generation Fashion Week with J.ESTINA

J.ESTINA revealed that they will be holding a “Girls’ Generation Fashion Week”, both on and off line, in light of Girls’ Generation becoming their models.

Every customer who purchases a product during “Girls’ Generation Fashion Week” will gain one entry, and the first place winner will win a brand new Hyundai i30 Hatchback. Second and third place winners will win the hairbands Girls’ Generation wore during their performance in New York that became a hot issue, and the Flora backpack, known as the “Girls’ Generation backpack”.

Also, two members will give style suggestions online every week. The first week will have Sooyoung and Seohyun’s suggestion of a “Contemporary & Romantic” look. “Natural & Simple”, “Fashionable & Trendy”, and other diverse styles will also be revealed during the campaign.

“Girls’ Generation Fashion Week” will start on November 11th, and continue until December 20th.

Sunny and Jessica showed off their acting and drawing skills on 'Star King'!

Sunny became the center of controversy, as two men in Star King fought fiercely for her!

A parody of ‘Warrior Bae Dong-soo’, a popular action drama aired recently, attracted attention. The highlight of this action drama is the sword fight scene where the main character Dong-soo fought an one-on-one match with a 16-year-old opponent at the age of 15. At this moment, Sunny of Girls’ Generation, who dressed up as a woman of the Joseon Dynasty, appeared in the scene, which led to a fierce fight for Sunny between the two men.

The studio gave a round of applause and exclaimed, “It seems like we’re watching a real action drama!” after witnessing the fancy sword fight and Sunny’s impressive acting skills.

On the other hand, Jessica showcased her drawing skills on the same episode of Star King, which startled the studio.

It started with the appearance of a wooden doll ‘Kkeo-Beong-i’, a nerdy boy in a famous children comic in Korea, who drew an abstract art piece of Tiffany with 100% synchronization. After looking at the art work, Yoo Hyun-sang, Boom and Jessica who were confident in drawing, carried out a drawing competition. Together with Kkeo-Beong-i, the four of them used Sunny as the model and presented their art pieces!

At first, Jessica lit up her artistic soul and her confidence in drawing attracted attention from the studio. When she revealed the drawing in the end, the studio were turned upside down with surprise! Curious about Jessica’s drawing? Star King will be aired on November 12th at 6.30pm KST.

Girls' Generation to Appear at FNS Music Festival

Girls’ Generation has once again been invited to the FNS Music Festival, hosted by Fuji Television and Fuji Networks System. The FNS Music Festival will be showcasing some of the biggest names in the Japanese music industry with a variety of performances and collaborations, which will turn into a mammoth four hour broadcast. This event will honor the many achievements the artists have accomplished throughout the year. The event will be held on December 7th, 2011 at 7pm JST.

After a successful release of their self-titled “Girls’ Generation” original Japanese album, which was certified double platinum shipping over 900,000 copies since first being released on May 31st, a first among Korean female group artists. They also held a national tour that saw over 140,000 fans come to watch the concert. Appearances at both Summer Sonic 2011 and at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan certainly helped to solidify their popularity and impact on the Japanese music scene. The girls have certainly reached many milestones during their time in Japan and this will only add to that growing list of achievements.

This will be the second time that Girls’ Generation has been invited to this prestigious event, as they also appeared last year where they performed the Japanese versions of their hit singles “Gee” and “Genie”. Other Korean artists that will be appearing alongside them this year include BoA and first-time attendee KARA.

A special collab for Australia Concert

MBC will host a concert in Sydney, Australia. On the 12th, at 7PM, the K-POP Music Festival in Sydney with famous Korean idols of the Hallyu Wave will be opened to celebrate the 50th year anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Australia. SNSD's Tiffany and Yuri will MC the event, while artists such as TVXQ, SNSD, Kara, SHINee, 2AM, CNBLUE, B2ST, 4Minute, Sistar, Secret,MBLAQ, and Miss A will perform.

For this concert, artists have not only prepared their hit songs, but special stages as well. 4Minute and Miss A are preparing Australian pop star Kylie Minogue's 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', and CNBLUE with B2ST's Yoseob, and MBLAQ's G.O. are preparing to form a new band. 2AM's Jo Kwon, 4Minute's Gayoon, and Sistar's Hyorin are preparing a special performance where their vocal skills will be shown, and SNSD and SHINee are preparing a special dance performance. This concert will be broadcasted on December 3rd in Korea.

Gaon Chart releases 1st week of November rankings

The Gaon Chart released the rankings for first week of November. Gaon Chart is the national chart of South Korea and is the equivalent of Oricon in Japan and Billboard in the U.S.

On Weekly Singles Chart, "Superstar K3's" Ulala Session reached the top spots, grabing the 1st and 2nd place with "The Western Sky" and "Makgeolli-Na" respectively.

Girls Generation's "The Boys" which dominated the chart for two weeks decended to 9th place. Noel's "I Miss You" dropped one spot to third place while "A Man and A Woman" by 4men & Mi and Tablo & Taeyang's "Tomorrow" debuted on 4th and 5th spot respectively.

For the Gaon's Album Chart, Girls Generation's third full-length album "The Boys" still securing the top spot, making it the third consecutive week for the record to achieve the feat.

Meanwhile, check the full rankings below:

French fans surprise SNSD members during ’1000 Songs Challenge’

During the latest recording session of SBS‘ ’1000 Songs Challenge’, special guests in the audience caught the eyes of the production team and the celebrity guests on the show.

These special guests were SNSD fans who had flown in all the way from France to cheer the girls on. Although it’s not unusual to see foreign fans in the audience nowadays, this was the first time that foreigners had visited the set of this particular show.

SNSD members, Jessica, Sunny, and Sooyoung, showed off their French as they specially thanked their foreign fans for their support.

Catch this episode on November 13th!

Jessica was afraid Hyoyeon would hit her?

On the episode of MBC ‘Golden Fishery – Radio Star‘ that aired on the 9th, SNSD‘s Jessicaadmitted that she had gotten into an intense argument with fellow member Hyoyeon.

MC Kim Guk Jin who recalled that Tiffany and Taeyeon had previously gotten into a heated argument asked Jessica if she had ever fought with any of the members.

“I fought with Hyoyeon before,” she admitted. “I thought I was going to get hit,” she continued, evoking laughter. “Hyoyeon was sitting in the front seat and I was sitting in the back. She started saying things to me that I didn’t really appreciate, so I started saying things back to her.”

MC Yoon Jong Shin then said, “Once you start fighting, you probably say things to one another that aren’t appropriate for TV… do the SNSD members use profanity?”, to which Jessica witfully remarked, “I told you she said things I didn’t appreciate. Thing I didn’t appreciate!“, which cause more laughter on the set.

Guest-starring on this particular episode were Park Hyemi and Lim Tae Kyung, as well as SNSD members Taeyeon, Jessica, and Tiffany.

Girls' Generation's "The Boys" Sells Over 200,000 in Just Two Weeks

Girls’ Generation’s album surpassed 200,000 copies sold, a first for girl groups.

Gaon chart released the album chart for October, and Girls’ Generation’s “The Boys” sold 227,994 copies in the month of October, placing them first. The album was released on October 19th.

Last year, their 2nd album Oh! sold 197,934 copies, and their third mini album Hoot sold 163,066 copies. The 2nd album repackage, Run Devil Run, sold 136,851 copies.

A representative of Gaon said, “The K-pop storm is reaching people internationally, so compared to last year, popular hallyu idols’ album sales have gone up”, and “It’s speculated that the number of international fans buying albums through Korean websites has gone up.”

In 2nd place was Kim Hyunjoong’s 2nd solo mini album “Lucky”, which sold 94,784 copies, and in 3rd was JYJ’s “In Heaven” with 81,867 copies. FT Island’s remake album “MEMORY IN FTISLAND” sold 36,939 copies, andSuper Junior’s 3rd Asia Tour concert album “Super Show 3″ sold 30,125 copies, rounding out the top 5.

On another note, sales for all of this year have Super Junior’s 5th album "Mr. Simple" in 1st with 329,035 copies sold, and TVXQ’s "Keep Your Head Down" in 2nd with 244,128 copies sold.

SNSD and 2AM ranks 1st in idols that fans want to give Pepero

2AM and SNSD were chosen as the idol groups fans would like to give Pepero to on Pepero day. Voting took place from 2-9 November.

1590 netizens voted under the category ‘male idol group you would like to give Pepero to on Pepero day’. 2AM easily came first with 515 votes (32.4%). Unlike other male groups, this year 2AM focused on each member’s individual activities. Even though they did not have many performances, they managed to come first in the voting.

Trailing behind is second place Big Bang with 196 votes (12.3%). Coming in third is 2PM with 170 votes (10.7%). Fourth and fifth place, Shinee with 160 votes (10.1%) and JYJ 146 votes (9.2%) respectively.

For female group category, 1712 netizens voted in total. First place went to SNSD with 967 votes (56.5%). Most netizens expressed that after listening to ‘The Boys’ from SNSD’s third album, they would like to give Pepero to the girls.

Following in second place is 2NE1 with 163 votes (9.5%). Other places include KARA 143 votes (7.8%S), miss A 142 votes (7.2%) and Wonder Girls 98 votes (5.7%) respectively.