Viewers love listening to ‘Oh!’ on home shopping shows

SNSD‘s ‘Oh!‘ is the most popular background music for TV home shopping programs.

GS Shop conducted an analysis from January 1st to December 28th through the broadcasts of its own home shopping programs. From over 10,000 background music tracks used, SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ was played 450 times.

Also in the top 10 list of the popular songs on home shopping programs are Kara’s ‘Lupin’, T-Ara’s ‘Bo Peep Bo Peep’, Sistar’s ‘Push Push’, Secret’s ‘Magic’, Rainbow’s ‘Not Your Girl’, miss A’s ‘Bad Girl Good Girl’, After School’s ‘ Because Of You’, etc.

A representative of GS Shop said, “In the past, home shopping music were those of the old pop songs with no lyrics so that viewers would concentrate on the shopping hosts and the products being introduced. However, recently, the use of new popular songs seems to be the trend. The bright and cheerful girl group songs seemed to encourage purchases and ‘hook songs’ which have repeated short verses are mostly played because these songs draw viewers’ concentration to the programs”.

Korean artists to attend MBC’s 50th Anniversary Concert in Bangkok

Korea’s top idol groups are scheduled to attend and perform at MBC’s 50th Anniversary Concert in March next year. Popular groups such as Girls’ Generation, C.N. BLUE, SHINee, Big Bang, 2NE1, SE7EN, 2PM, 2AM, KARA, T-ARA, Secret, 4minute, BEAST, MBLAQ , miss A, and After School are in the lineup of this star-studded event.

Name: The ASEAN Charming Festival Concert (50th MBC Anniversary Concert)
Date: March 12th 2011
Time: 7PM - 11PM
Place: Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Ticket Sales Start: around February 2011

Girls’ Generation to release live concert album on Dec 30

Girls' Generation will release their first live concert album this week, according to their agency SM Entertainment.

SM announced in a press release today that Girls’ Generation’s live album titled “The 1st ASIA TOUR CONCERT - Into the New World,” which contains contents from their show last year on December 19 and 20 held at Seoul's Olympic Park Fencing Stadium, is set for release on Thursday.

"The 1st ASIA TOUR CONCERT - Into the New World" record is composed of two albums, featuring 38 of their hit songs including their individual performances.

It will also include two bonus tracks titled "Beautiful Girls," which was used as the background music during their concert, and the re-recorded version of "Singin' In The Rain."

Composed of members Taeyeon, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Sunny, Jessica, Seohyun, Yoona, Yuri and Sooyoung, Girls' Generation made their debut in 2007 with first album "Into the New World." They have since released several albums which include their hit songs "Gee," "Genie" and "Run Devil Run."

They have led a busy year in 2010, being named the winner of the grand prize at Korea’s Gold Disk Award, winning the title of artist of the year award at 2010 MelOn Music Award and being voted as singer of the year by major survey firm Gallup Korea.

The girls have also enjoyed success in Japan since making their official debut in August, becoming the first Korean girl group to place in at No.1 on the prestigious Oricon chart and having sold over 100,000 copies of their Japanese singles “Gee” and “Genie” to be certified gold discs.

Girls' Generation are currently busy preparing for the year-end awards ceremonies for both Korea and Japan.

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/

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