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.