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Friday, December 9, 2011

Who were the top digital sellers in K-POP for 2011?

With 2011 counting down to a close, the industry is slowing down to look back at its achievements over the past year. Following a list of the most successful producers, Star News has followed up with a ranking of the most popular digital tracks over the past months.

The list was compiled by Olleh Music and ranks the top 50 songs this year which performed the best in the digital form. The number was determined by combining the number of downloads + the number of streams the song received on its website.

The honors for first place went to G.NA with her January title, “Black & White“. The song fared well, not only because of its early January release – which gives it a head-start advantage – but also for an easy melody that was accepted by both young and old alike.

IU also proved her title as one of this year’s hottest stars by landing three tracks on the top ten, including last year’s “Good Day” at #2 and “Someday” and “The Story Only I Didn’t Know” at #7 and #9, respectively.

Girl group T-ara also had a noteworthy year with one of this year’s most popular songs, “Roly Poly“, at #3.

The top ten was rounded out by Big Bang with “Tonight” (#4), SECRET with “Shy Boy” (#5), f(x) with “Pinocchio” (#6), CN BLUE with “Intuition” (#8), and B2ST with “Fiction” (#10).

Among the rookie groups to debut this year, Girls’ Day performed the strongest with “Twinkle Twinkle” at #11.

2NE1 also had a strong year with 4 songs on the top 50, including “Lonely“, “Don’t Cry“, “I Am the Best“, and “Ugly” at #14, 16, 22, and 39, respectively.

MBC‘s ‘Infinity Challenge’ also shook the charts with their ‘West Coast Highway Music Festival’challenge, where each member teamed up with a songwriter to pen their own duet track. Park Myung Soo and G-Dragon‘s collaboration track, “I Cheated“, landed at #20 while Yoo Jae Suk and Lee Juk‘s “Apgujeong Nallari” was positioned at #42.

Among the numerous OST (soundtrack) tracks released for dramas this year, Hyun Bin‘s “That Man” for SBS‘s ‘Secret Garden’ scored the highest (#21), apart from IU’s “Someday” which demolished the competition at #7.

Despite being heavily disadvantaged with late-year releases, both SNSD and Wonder Girls performed strongly with “The Boys” and “Be My Baby“, at #24 and #35, respectively.

Counting by individual months, the top songs for each month this year were Hyun Bin’s “That Man” (January), G.NA’s “Black & White” (February), Big Bang’s “Tonight” (March), Orange Caramel‘s “Bangkok City” (April), Sistar19‘s “Ma Boy” (May), SECRET‘s “Starlight Moonlight” (June), GG‘s “I Cheated” (July), 2NE1′s “Ugly” (August), Davichi‘s “Don’t Say Goodbye” (September), Lee Seung Gi‘s “Love Time” (October), and Wonder Girls’ “Be My Baby” (November).

You can see the full list below of the top-selling digital songs for 2011. Do you see your favorite artist?

1. ‘”Black & White” – G.NA
2. “Good Day” – IU
3. “Roly Poly” – T-ara
4. “Tonight” – Big Bang
5. “Shy Boy” – SECRET
6. “Pinocchio” – f(x)
7. “Someday” – IU
8. “Intuition” – CN BLUE
9. “The Story Only I Didn’t Know” – IU
10. “Fiction” – B2ST
11. “Twinkle Twinkle” – Girls’ Day
12. “My Heart is Beating” – K.Will
13. “Ma Boy” – Sistar19
14. “Lonely” – 2NE1
15. “Goodbye Baby” – Miss A
16. “Don’t Cry” – Park Bom
17. “Please” – Kim Bum Soo
18. “On Rainy Days” – B2ST
19. “Mirror Mirror” – 4minute
20. “I Cheated” – GG (feat. Park Bom)
21. “That Man” – Hyun Bin
22. “I Am the Best” – 2NE1
23. “Tok Tok” – Mighty Mouth (feat. Soya)
24. “The Boys” – SNSD
25. “Well Done” – Navi
26. “You Are the Best of My Life” – Lee Hyun
27. “Going Crazy” – Song Ji Eun (feat. Bang Yong Guk)
28. “Heart to Heart” – 4minute
29. “So Cool” – Sistar
30. “Starlight Moonlight” – SECRET
31. “Day By Day” – Kim Bo Kyung
32. “Bangkok City” – Orange Caramel
33. “Hot Summer” – f(x)
34. “Don’t Forget Me” – Huh Gak
35. “Be My Baby” – Wonder Girls
36. “Turned Off the TV…” – Leessang (Feat. T Yoon Mi Rae, Kwon Jung Ryeol)
37. “Don’t Say Goodbye” – Davichi
38. “For First-Time Lovers” – Jung Yong Hwa
39. “Ugly” – 2NE1
40. “Words That Freeze My Heart” – Wheesung (feat. Yong Jung Hyung)
41. “Love Song” – Big Bang
42. “Apgujeong Nallari” – Drooping Snail
43. “Tokyo Girl” – Busker Busker
44. “Hello” – Huh Gak
45. “Hold My Hand” – IU
46. “Bubble Pop!” – HyunA
47. “Cafe” – Big Bang
48 “I Miss You” – Noel
49. “Americano” – 10cm
50. “To Me” – Rainbow

Girls' Generation Talk About Their Eating Habits

Girls’ Generation recently recorded an episode of Mnet’s “The Beatles Code” which is set to air on the 8th at 7PM KST. During the show, the MCs, Yoon Jongshin and Yoo Seyoon, asked the girls, “Is it true that the members can all eat without worrying about their weight? Do you really not go on diets?” In response to this, the members replied, “We just eat what we like to eat, and not eat those that we don’t want to. We’re just like everyone else.”

Girls’ Generation went on to say, “It’s not that we don’t gain any weight no matter how much we eat, but Sooyoung and Yoona are the exceptions. They don’t seem to gain any weight at all despite eating so much. Especially Yoona, she doesn’t even get bloated!” After Girls’ Generation revealed this, the whole studio burst into laughter.

The questions continued and Girls’ Generation was asked who loved Korean food the most. Once again, Yoona was brought up as the eight girls all chose her. They said, “Sooyoung and Yoona love to eat Korean food. However, Yoona is a big eater and she especially likes it when there is a wide variety of side dishes.”

During the episode, the girls also opened up about times when they were jealous of each other. Taeyeon admitted that during “We Got Married”, she was jealous of Seohyun. She elaborated on this by saying, “The both of us starred in ‘We Got Married’, but we ended up with completely different guys. It’s difficult to be casted in the same variety show with friends your age, and for that, I was jealous of Seohyun.” This was in reference to the fact that Seohyun was “married” to CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa, and Taeyeon to comedian, Jung Hyungdon.

Yuri and Sooyoung also revealed a “behind story” which will be further revealed during the broadcast.

SNSD @ Japanese First Album Repackaged The Boys Cover Information and Preorder Links!

Price

First Press Limited Edition (CD+DVD+Mini-Photobook) - 4390yen

Limited Period Edition (CD+DVD+Mini-Photobook) - 4390yen

Normal Edition (CD Only) - 3000yen

First Press Limited Edition and Limited Period Edition

comes with special case, digipak jacket, Photobook 39P and DVD

First Press Edition:2 rubber coaster set (Blue or White Ver)

Limited Period Edition : 2Poster

Release Date : 28 / 12 / 2011

少女時代「Re:package Album "GIRLS' GENERATION" ～The Boys～」CD収録曲

01. The Boys（JAPANESE ver.）

02. THE GREAT ESCAPE（Brian Lee remix）

03. BAD GIRL feat. DEV（The Cataracs remix）

04. Time Machine

05. MR.TAXI

06. GENIE

07. Gee

08. I’m In Love With The HERO

09. 훗（HOOT）

10. Let It Rain

11. Beautiful Stranger

12. you-aholic

13. Run Devil Run

14. BORN TO BE A LADY

15. Bonus track "MR.TAXI（Steve Aoki remix）

少女時代「Re:package Album "GIRLS' GENERATION" ～The Boys～」First Press and Limited Period Edition DVD

01. The Boys（ENGLISH ver.）

02. BAD GIRL

Preorder Link

CDJapan : http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=UPCH-29077

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Sunny to Voice Act in Animated Movie!

Girls’ Generation’s Sunny and SHINee’s Taemin will take part as voice actors in an upcoming animated film called: “Koala Kid: Birth of A Hero”.

Sunny will be showing her cute and cheerful personality by playing the voice of Miranda, a beautiful koala who is brave and has quick reflexes.

The movie will be shown in fifteen different countries beginning next January, just in time before winter break ends.

Sunny is the third member of Girls’ Generation to become a voice actor for a movie after Taeyeon and Seohyun, who lent their voices to the film “Despicable Me” last year.

SNSD’s full-length Japanese album ‘Girls Generation’ sells close to 1 million copies

The ladies of SNSD who are actively standing on stages all across Asia are about to sell 1 million copies of their first full-length Japanese album, ‘Girls Generation‘.

According to Japanese media outlets such as Sankei Sports, ‘Girls Generation’ which was released in Japan back in June has already sold more than 850,000 copies.

A repackaged album is scheduled to be released on the 28th, and therefore with it’s inclusion in the sales figure, it is highly likely that their first album will surpass the 1 million sales mark. The repackaged album contains songs like “Time Machine” as well as the Japanese version of the “The Boys” from their third album which was released globally in October.

In the event that SNSD sells 1 million copies of ‘Girls Generation’, they will become the first overseas artist to accomplish such a feat in Japan. There has yet to be a Korean group in Japan to sell 1 million copies of an album (Note: BoA as a solo artist already accomplished this feat), so needless to say, all eyes are on the SNSD girls.

Additionally, ‘Girls Generation’ ranked #1 on major Japanese album distributor Tower Records‘ ‘2011 K-POP Album Sales Ranks‘, tallying the number of albums sold between January 1st and November 30th of this year.

In related news, SNSD has attended FujiTV‘s ‘FNS Song Festival‘ on the 7th, and will be rounding out the year at NHK‘s ‘Red & White Singing Battle (Kohaku)‘ on the 31st.

SNSD, KARA, BoA, and TVXQ perform at Japan’s ‘FNS Music Festival 2011′

On December 7th, SNSD, KARA, BoA, and TVXQ attended and performed at the 2011 FNS Music Festival, one of the biggest and most prestigious year-end musical events in Japan.

Performing in front of the Japan’s top stars and artists, SNSD, KARA, BoA, and TVXQ delivered impressive stages that showcased why they’re at the forefront of the Hallyu wave in Japan.

Check out their performances below!

< TVXQ, “Why? Keep Your Head Down” >