As a team, JYJ & TVXQ were quite a formidable force, dominating charts in both Korea and Japan. Despite tension between the two groups, both groups are showing that they’re still quite formidable as two separate units.
HMV Online, one of Japan’s largest online music portals updates their daily ranking chart on their website. The daily ranking chart is based off of sales figures for the day and both JYJ / TVXQ dominated this chart.
JYJ took spots #1 (preorder for Music Essay THEIR ROOMS), #2 (preorder for Memories in 2010 DVD), #6 (preorder for MEMORIES IN 2010 DVD +THANKSGIVING LIVE IN DOME LIVE CD), and #8 (Featured in K☆BOOM March 2011).
TVXQ took spots #3 – #5, and #21 (Various editions of Why? Keep Your Head Down).
The only non JYJ / TVXQ spots in the top 10 were taken by EXILE (#7), KARA (#9), and AKB48 (#10), who are quite formidable themselves. Congratulations to both TVXQ and JYJ, it’s good to see support for both groups despite the recent events.
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yay~!!!!! I'm so glad that the kings are back!!!! It so good to see them rule various portal sites and back on stage... even though they are doing things separately...but they are still the best no matter what.. so let's hope for them to perform as a 5 members of DBSK ^^ (not two or three anymore ^^)
To reveal the winners of the 4th Annual Mashable Awards, Mashable did it big and held an Awards Gala at the Cirque du Soleil Zumanity this evening in Las Vegas. As you may recall, a number of kpop authorities were nominated for various categories in December. Among the winners include theBest Web Video Awardgoing toJay Park, theMust Follow Personality AwardtoSuper Juniorand theMust Follow Brand Awardto none other thanallkpop!
We’re blown away by the support that all of you guys have shown us through voting for allkpop on Twitter and Facebook. Last year, allkpop won Mashable’s “Best Breaking News Site” Award and, considering the fact that Mashable is one of the world’s largest platforms for social media-related news and updates, it’s extremely exciting for us to be honored with these recognitions two years in a row. Again, we can’t thank all of our readers enough – you’re the ones that made this possible!
The boys of TEEN TOP have recently unveiled their second MV teaser for their upcoming comeback track, “Supa Love“.
While the majority of the video does focus on the cameo made by Shinhwa’s Eric, TEEN TOP drops down at the last minute onto a stylish stage. Speaking of sets, does Eric’s stage remind anyone of the labs from Resident Evil?
If their white hair hasn’t already indicated that they’re going for a futuristic look, this MV teaser will definitely get that concept across.
‘Chic idols’ MBLAQ has finally revealed their album jacket photos for their first official album, “BLAQ Style.”
After releasing the first of their two title tracks, “Cry,” on January 3rd, the members will be returning on the 10th with “Stay“, which is described to have an addictive melody that will never leave your head.
The group will be holding their first fan meeting on the afternoon of the 9th, in which they’ll be performing their double title tracks for the first time for their fans. The release of their official album will follow on the 10th.
Recently, vocalist Niel suffered a knee injury and T.O.P Media decided to delay their comeback date do the 13th. Despite this setback, they still went ahead and released a teaser music video for their title track, “TRANSFORM.“ Now, TEEN TOP’s official website was updated once again with another concept image.
Text translated as: [TRANSFORM] “Brand new style that will upgrade into a completely new image.”
Coordinating with their album release earlier today, INFINITE has revealed the music video for their title track, “BTD (Before the Dawn)“!
Although there were concerns about the video having strong violence scenes, it’s undeniable that they contribute to making the overall video an intense, if not highly excitable, work. The boys are seen trying to escape from a twisted labyrinth, and the song (with its fusion of electronic sound and heavy guitar) is utilized perfectly to quicken the viewer’s heartbeat.
During a recent interview, Big Bang’s G-Dragon and T.O.P were asked to pick members who had the most and least interest in women lately.
For the member who showed the most interest in the ladies lately, G-Dragon answered with a laugh, “All of them have interest in women, but Taeyang especially has been showing a lot of interest after singing ‘I Need A Girl.‘”
Taeyang’s well known in the Big Bang fandom to be shy and innocent, which contrasts with the sexy choreography he tends to perform on stage with girls. G-Dragon continued, “It feels like Taeyang has finally opened his eyes to the world of women. He never even used to go to locations where girls were present, but now he fits in well and is even in the center of discussion when conversing with them. It makes me feel so proud seeing him chat with girls.”
Meanwhile, T.O.P was asked to choose a member with the least interest, and he decided upon Seungri. He reasoned, “It feels like Seungri has lost interest in them since he’s well aware of his career as a celebrity.”
The duo were then asked about their ideal women, in which G-Dragon replied, “Someone that makes me feel comfortable upon first sight.” T.O.P answered, “A wise woman that handles herself well enough to express her unique charms.”
Big Bang has been holding their annual brand concert, “Big Show,” every January since 2008, but for this year they’re planning to hold it in February so that it could coincide with the group’s comeback.
The boys finally released a teaser video for the three-day concert, to build anticipation for its opening show on February 25th at the Olympic Athletics Stadium. The concert itself has been widely popuar with both fans and industry representatives alike, as it always featured the best possible performances.
A YG Entertainment representative previously explained, “This year’s ‘Big Show’ will feature not only Big Bang’s newest tracks, but GD&TOP and Seungri’s mini-album as well.”
B2ST has announced that they will be embarking on an encore run of their highly successful “B2ST Airline” concert!
The announcement was put up on the morning of January 6th through Cube Entertainment’s official homepage and through B2ST fancafes as well.
The concert was a huge success last year – it was hyped successfully through clever marketing, and the boys delivered impressive performances. It was even picked as the #1 concert music fans wanted to attend, according to a concert ticketing website.
Unfortunately, only 10,000 fans could attend the first concert, but B2ST plans to give fans another opportunity to catch the event through their Asian tour. Titled, “Welcome BACK to BEAST Airline“, the boys will kick off the tour with a two-day concert at Seoul’s Olympic Athletics Stadium on February 18th and 19th.
Details on the rest of the concert dates have yet to be revealed, but international fans are queuing up for tickets to the Seoul shows.
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omo~ omo~ these guys have never failed to amazed us xD
TVXQ’s newest album sold over an astonishing 15,000 copies within a day, according to album sales analyst Hanteo.
The special edition of “Keep Your Head Down” was released on the morning of January 5th, and by 4 PM KST, the duo racked up an impressive sales amount of 15,000 copies sold.
Offline sales have yet to be calculated and added into the record. By 5 PM KST, the album was already recording close to 20,000 in online sales, which means that reaching 30,000 sales overall in one day would be easily manageable for the duo.
The album is currently ranking first on the Hanteo charts, in addition to all of the major music sites such as Bugs, dosirak, Mnet, and Daum Music.
Their music video for the song has also placed on ‘the most views’, ‘most replies’, ‘most favorited’, and ‘most rated video’ rankings for YouTube Korea. “Keep Your Head Down” also managed to list on other YouTube location charts for Canada, the UK, Netherland, Russia and many more as the ‘most viewed video’.
The duo will be making their comeback on “Music Bank” on the 7th, “Music Core” on the 8th, and “Inkigayo” on the 9th, followed by the release of the album’s ’standard edition’ on the 12th.
Teen Top has announced that they’ll be delaying their comeback by a week due to vocalist Niel’s knee injury.
On January 4th, their agency, T.O.P Media, revealed, “They were scheduled for comeback on the first week of January, but Niel injured his knee during a year-end performance. Through rest, his condition has improved, but we’ve postponed the group’s comeback date to the 13th.”
Teen Top previously revealed that their title track would be “TRANSFORM,” and stated, “Please look forward to a completely upgraded image.”
Three teaser videos will also be released on the 5th, 7th, and 9th, as to build anticipation for their official comeback.
2011년 Happy new year !!!2010너무 많은 사랑을 받아서 행복했습니다!!올해두 같이해요!! 2011 Happy new year !!! I were happy in 2010 because I have received lots of love!! Let’s be together again this year !!
yay~! 2011 is finally here~ ermm... for the very 1st time this year... I do not have to worry about school reopen xD yup2~ that's right.. just graduated from secondary school~ ^^ hurrmm...so... I actually have LOTS of things to do~!!! (before I enter university/college ^^) owh yeah..not to forget this year new year resolutions..... \(^_^)/
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and so on... heheheheh....it's a secret...ssshhhh...^^
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HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS~ MAY 2011 BE A GREATER YEAR THAN THE PREVIOUS YEARS~ =)
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