From the poll result, Kara and SNSD were placed within the top 10, alongside popular Japanese artists such as Fukuyama Masaharu, Arashi, AKB48, Nishino Kana, Perfume, etc. Kara was ranked 6th while SNSD took the 9th spot.
This year, SNSD’s Japanese singles ‘Genie‘ and ‘Gee‘ have both surpassed sales of 100,000 copies respectively and recorded a total revenue of 880 million yen from all the singles and album sales in Japan this year. Besides that, SNSD’s 2nd Japanese Single ‘Gee‘ was also awarded the Best Single Award at the ‘2010 BIGLOBE Music Award‘ and ranked no.2 on ‘The 43rd Oricon Annual Ranking 2010‘ newcomers’ sales category. Such is the huge popularity and impressive achievement of SNSD in Japan this year.
A representative of Crazy Ticket said, “Through this survey, the public have told us about their thoughts and impressions of SNSD, Tiara and 2NE1′s image. Particularly, many of the respondents expressed their opinions on SNSD’s thriftiness. Some of the respondents commented, ‘In view of their busy schedules, it seems that SNSD would only buy things they really need through online open market’,'Christmas gift to express gratitude towards SNSD seems to be available through social commerce’ and ‘I will only buy necessary items which are affordable and economical through One A Day Social Commerce’”.
Meanwhile, SNSD are also the most-searched figure in 2010. According to portal site, Naver, ‘SNSD’ is the 5th most popular keyword search and 1st in terms of most searched figure.
From a poll conducted through a portal site of the movie ‘Be All and End All (Korean:내 친구의 소원/Translation: My Friend’s Wish)‘ entitled ‘Such as in the movie ‘Be All End All’, which female idol would you introduce to your best friend to go on a blind date with?’, Tae Yeon was ranked 1st.
4minute’s HyunA came in 2nd with 31% while miss A’s Suzy and Kara’s Han Seungyeon took the 3rd and 4th spot respectively.
According to Oricon on December 28th, SNSD’s licensed Japanese Edition of 3rd Mini Album ‘Hoot’ recorded sales of 61,000 copies in the first week, thus making it the 2nd hottest selling album in Japan for the week.
Oricon stated, “SNSD’s single ‘Gee’ captured the 2nd spot before but not on the album chart. This is SNSD’s first top 10 entry on the album chart”.
The Japanese edition of the mini album ‘Hoot’ consists of SNSD’s hits such as ‘Tell Me Your Wish’, ‘Gee’, ‘Run Devil Run’, ‘Oh!’, etc.
According to album sales information site, Hanteo Chart on December 27th, SM artists were ranked very highly in the chart as they have shown their strength in terms of total album sales, singles sales, etc. this year.
SNSD who have released 32 albums and singles since debut in 2007, topped the chart with recorded total sales of 303,442 copies this year. Super Junior and SHINee came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. JYJ took the no.4 spot, followed by Beast in 5th.
This annual aggregate chart calculates the singles and full albums involving the artists in a particular year.
In terms of sales for a single album, Super Junior’s 4th album ‘Bonamana’ is the best selling album with 132,127 copies, followed by SNSD’s ‘Oh!‘ and ‘Hoot‘ in 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. SHINee’s ‘Lucifer’ came in 4th while BoA’s ‘Hurricane Venus’ took the 5th spot. Again, all top 5 spots were occupied by SM artists.
SNSD‘s ‘Oh!‘ was selected as the most popular song which received the most love in 2010 on online music site, ‘Monkey 3′.The ’2010 Monkey 3 Best Song 30′ was selected based on the number downloads and online streaming from January 1st to December 10th (90%) and also Monkey 3 user votes (10%).
From these criteria, SNSD emerged as the winner with their hit song ‘Oh!’. As soon as it was released, ‘Oh!’ recorded an ‘all-kill’ on various music charts and went on to take the no.1 spot for the first half of the year on these charts, including the ‘Monkey 3′ chart as well.
SNSD are indeed the most popular singer of the year as their hits ‘Oh!’, ‘Run Devil Run’ and ‘Hoot’ dominated the charts as soon as they were officially released.
Through the scores calculated based on download and streaming figures from January 1st to December 10th on ‘Monkey 3′, ‘Best Artist’, ‘Longest Weekly Chart Winner’ and ‘Best Duet Song’ were also selected.
miss A’s ‘Bad Girl Good Girl’ was awarded the ‘Longest Weekly Chart Winner’ as the promising newcomers took no.1 on ‘Monkey 3 Weekly Chart’ for 4 weeks in a row. For the ‘Best Duet Song’ category, IU and Im Seulong (2AM)’s ‘Nagging’ secured the no.1 spot. 2AM on the other hand, were selected as the ‘Best Artist’.
SNSD who were ranked 14th last year, went up 10 places to secure the no.4 spot this year, 2 spots behind the founder of SM Entertainment, Lee Sooman.
With the recent injury of SNSD’s Tiffany, industry representatives have been raising voices of concern over the dangerous conditions idol singers are forced to perform in.
The majority of idols perform elaborate choreography on slippery stages while wearing clothing that distracts and gets in the way of safety measures. Female idols are especially prone to injuries, as they usually perform in 10cm ‘kill heels,’ increasing the possibility of an injury occurring.
Not only that, but their jam packed schedules and frequent dance rehearsals leave no time for rest, straining their bodies to work under high levels of fatigue.
Park Sung Jin, the director of Wellton Hospital, commented, “Injuries such as desmorrhexis are increasing amongst the youth due to intense workouts and carelessness. It’s difficult to treat damaged ligaments, and recovery takes a long time, so it’s important that injuries don’t happen at a young age.”
So, what is this gift we are talking about here? Ok, i’m not going to beat around the bush any longer. It’s the ‘소녀시대 The 1st Asia Tour “Into The New World” Live Album‘. It contains a total of 38 tracks in 2 CDs. Some fans are disappointed it’s not the DVD but hey, anything that has to do with our girls is worth every cent, right? Well, add this into your Christmas shopping list and hopefully our credit card won’t be hitting its credit limit so soon.
Here’s the album information and track list:
Release Date : 23/12/2010
Price : 19,900 won(Approximately $17.23USD) (Online Sales -16,000 won,approximately $13.85USD)
Label : SM Entertainment
Contents:
CD1
01. Nine Angels
02. Tell Me Your Wish (Remix version)
03. Show! Show! Show!
04. Girls’ Generation
05. Beginning
06. It’s Fantastic
07. Etude
08. Ooh La-La!
09. Kissing You
10. One Year Later (Jessica & Onew)
11. Introduce Me A Good Person (Yoona)
12. Sunny (Sunny)
13. Umbrella (Tiffany)
14. Hush Hush (Taeyeon)
15. Chocolate Love
16. Honey
17. Dear. Mom
18. Forever
CD2
01. Day By Day
02. My Child
03. Barbie Girl (Jessica)
04. Santa Baby (Sooyoung)
05. Label: Suite “mirror” Article 4 “the morning song of a Clown”(?) (Seohyun)
06. Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Seohyun)
07. Over The Rainbow
08. 1,2 Step (Yuri)
09. Into The New World
10. Be Happy
11. Way To Go
12. Gee
13. Touch The Sky
14. NaengMyeon
15. HaHaHa
16. Complete
17. Baby Baby
18. Oh!
19. (Bonus Track) Beautiful Girls (Feat. Yoo Young Jin)
20. (Bonus Track) Singin ‘In The Rain (Studio version)
Bonus : Poster
Are you ready? Let’s take out those plastic cards!!!
With the win, the girls have won the Year-End K-Chart Award for 2 years in a row. In 2009, ‘Gee’ took the #1 spot for 9 weeks in a row and thus crowned as the winner for that year. To help you recall, here’s a photo from last year.
In today’s KBS Music Bank Year-End Special, out of the top 10 songs in 2010, SNSD have 3 entries. As mentioned before, ‘Oh!’ took the #1 spot, ‘Hoot’ in 4th and ‘Run Devil Run’ in 6th.
For those who missed the performances and the result announcement, here you go:
Oh! + Hoot
2010 K-Chart goes to……SNSD!!!
Recently, the MR-Removed version of Tae Yeon’s ‘I Love You’ (the OST for SBS drama ‘Athena’) videos have surfaced on online entertainment forum sites.
For those who are not familiar with the term, MR means Music Recorded. So, for MR-Removed videos, basically, the music is taken out from the video and all that can be heard is the artist’s actual vocal ability. This method has been used to evaluate the vocal abilities of artists such as SNSD, IU, Beast, Sistar, Tiara and other idol groups.
From the MR-removed video of ‘I Love You’, one could only come up with a conclusion that Tae Yeon’s singing ability is near-perfect as there is only a slight 1% of voice wavering and the difference between the normal and MR-removed video (in terms of singing) could hardly be detected. Composer of ‘I Love You’, Ahn Youngmin even praised Tae Yeon for her great singing ability.
Netizens who heard the MR-Removed version gave their praises to Tae Yeon:
-”Powerful singing ability”
-”How is it possible that such voice comes from someone with a kid-like face?”
-”This is a really good song. Superb singing ability”
Check out the MR-Removed version of ‘I Love You’ and be amazed!
The trailer of the upcoming MBC drama, ‘My Princess’ was revealed on December 16th and Kim Tae Hee’s ‘Hoot’ dance as seen in the trailer has garnered much attention from the viewers. The new drama will be aired starting January 5th, 2011.
In the trailer, Kim Tae Hee sang SNSD’s ‘Hoot’ and cutely did the arrow dance, much to Song Seung Hun’s amazement. Ever since the trailer was released, it has gathered a lot of hot reactions from netizens.
Check out Kim Tae Hee’s version of ‘Hoot’:
According to Sankei Sports on December 16th, SNSD will be making an appearance on Fuji TV’s special drama ‘Sazae-san 3′ which is scheduled to be aired on January 2nd at 6.30pm.
According to the Japanese daily, SNSD had completed the recording for ‘Sazae-san’ in October, before Tiffany’s injury and thus, viewers would be able to see all the nine girls on the show.
The drama ‘Sazae-san’ was adapted from a Japanese comic strip created by Machiko Hasegawa which was first published on Fukunichi Shimbun on April 22nd, 1946. 23 years later, in October 1969, Fuji TV aired an animated comedy series of ‘Sazae-san’ and it is still in production
after 40 years.
In the drama, the girls will dress in cute golf costumes, revealing their slim figures. Also, this is the first time foreign guests are featured in the drama and SNSD was given that honor.
PD of the program, Asano Sumi said, “While I was looking for suitable guests for the show, I came across SNSD’s promotional video and i immediately wanted them on the show”.
SNSD commented, “We are really happy as we received lots of love from the Japanese people for our appearance on the show”.
Here’s the preview of ‘Sazae-san 3′ featuring SNSD:
In the ’2010 Bugs! Music Awards’, there were 12 categories in total such as ‘Song’, ‘Pop Song’,'Drama OST’, etc. The selection of winners is based on 100% netizen votes. The 21 days voting period attracted participation from 110,000 Bugs! members. From these 3 categories, SNSD won the ‘Song of The Year Award’, ‘Music Video of the Year Award’ and ‘Idol of the Year Award’.
The focus was mainly on the ‘Song of The Year’ category where SNSD’s hit song, ‘Oh!’ emerged as the winner with a total of 29,744 votes, about twice the number of votes received by runner-up, 2AM.
The songs and artists who won the awards for each category will be given the ’2010 Bugs! Music Awards’ recognition icon for 1 year and the names of these artists will also appear in a separate dedicated Bugs! domain to acknowledge their achievements.
The official results of the ’2010 Bugs! Music Awards’ are available at its official website.
SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ MV has been chosen as the most viewed music video on YouTube Korea, followed by ‘Run Devil Run’ MV. On the other hand, the MV for ‘Hoot’ which was released in October managed to secure the 9th spot despite the fact that it was just released about 2 months ago. ‘Oh! Dance version’ was ranked 10th and this means that there are 4 SNSD videos in the Top 10.
*Super Junior’s ‘Bonamana’ was placed 3rd, SHINee’s ‘Lucifer’ in 4th while 2NE1′s ‘Can’t Nobody’ and ‘Go Away’ grabbed the 5th and 6th spot respectively.
1. 2010 Artist Award
2. 2010 Top 10 Artist Award
3. 2010 Hot Trend Award
4. 2010 Best Dressed Award
Here are some videos of SNSD at the ’2010 Melon Music Awards’:
Red Carpet
2010 T-World Best Song Award
Winner: 2AM – I Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die
2010 Newcomer Award
Winner: CN Blue
2010 Netizen Popularity Battle Award
Winner: Super Junior
2010 Hot Trend Award
Winner: SNSD – Hoot
2010 MBC + Star Award
Winner: Miss A
2010 OST Award
Winner: Lee Seunggi
2010 Rap/Hip-Hop Award
Winner: Supreme Team
2010 R&B Award
Winner: Gummy
2010 Trot Award
Winner: Jang Yoonjung
2010 Alternative Award
Winner: Hot Potato
2010 Music Video Award
Winner: Hwang SooAh PD – Irreversible (Ga In)
2010 Song Writer Award
Winner: Kim Ina/Lee Minsoo
2010 MBC Radio Singer Award
Winner: Jung Yeop
2010 Performance Culture Award
Winner: Psy
2010 Best Dressed Award
Winner: SNSD
In a post entitled ‘Tae Yeon – I Love You (Athena OST)’ in his own minihompy, Ahn Young Min mentioned that he worked with Tae Yeon for the OST.
Ahn Young Min stated, “This is the second time I work with Tae Yeon and it’s amazing to see that she handled the song really well. I was worried that the song might be too matured for her but when she started singing, my tears started to fall”. The well known composer went on to praise Tae Yeon in terms of her singing ability as well as how she managed to put in her feelings and emotions into the song.
Tae Yeon’s ‘I Love You’ was officially released on December 13th, the same day as the first broadcast of SBS drama ‘Athena: Goddess of
War’.
**Special Stage!!**
2010 Hot trend Ⅰ. The Center of Hallyu!
- SNSD : Oh & Hoot
- Kara : Lupin + Jumping
- Super Junior : Bonamana
**Special Stage!!**
2010 Hot trend Ⅱ. Hot Duet
- IU & Seulong(2AM) : Nagging
- Changmin &Lee;Hyun (Homme) : Still Eating Well
**Special Stage!!**
2010 Hot Trend Ⅲ. The golden generation of girl groups
DIVA 5!
- After School & Rainbow & Sistar & Girls Day & NS Yoonji
**Special Stage!!**
Orange Caramel Magic Girl Parody
- Mubank Caramel : SHINee & BEAST & Ze:A
**Special Stage!!**
2010 Hot TrendⅤ. Vocal line
- SG Wanabe & Super Junor & SHINee :My everything
**Performances!!**
- Sistar : Push Push + How Dare You
- Rainbow : A + Mach
- Miss A : Bad Girl Good Girl + Breathe
- CN BLUE : Love + I'm a loner
- Son Dambi : Queen + db Rider
- FT Island : Love Love Love
- BEAST & 4minute : Soom + Huh + Dance Performance
- Tiara & Secret : I go crazy because of you + Magic + Madonna + YA YA YA
- SHINee : Lucifer
- SG Wannabe : Sunflower
- 2AM : I can't let you you even if i die + You wouldn't answer my call
- 2PM : Without you + I'll be back
SNSD’s debut Japanese single ‘Genie‘ was recently selected by iTunes Japan as the #1 ‘Breakthrough Album of 2010′ on its ‘2010: Music, 2010 BEST‘ chart.
‘Genie’ – which many of you know was the Japanese version of SNSD’s hit, ‘Tell Me Your Wish‘ – received an explosive popularity since its release and even ranked as #2 on the Oricon Daily Single Charts.
iTunes also ranked the top 100 most-downloaded songs in their “2010 iTunes Top 100” chart, with KARA’s Mister ranking at 14th, and SNSD’s ‘Genie’ and ‘Gee‘ landing in 29th and 30th respectively.
CNBLUE’s Yong Hwa made a surprise reveal of a song he composed for his virtual wife, SNSD’s Seo Hyun, on this week’s episode of MBC’s “We Got Married.”
The episode focused on more footage of the couple’s vacation trip and continued where they left off last week where the couple had been enjoying dinner after a busy day.
After finishing their meal, Yong Hwa stated, “I have something I’ve been preparing for Seo Hyun. It’s going to be one of the greatest hits of the season. Honestly, it’s a song about Seo Hyun. The song’s about something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, but haven’t. It’s about ‘informal speech.’”
On the spot, he revealed a bit of the song’s melody and, as if too shy to reveal the chorus, he murmured a bit of the lyrics, further increasing the curiosity of the viewers and Seo Hyun alike.
Much anticipation is being put on how the song will turn out and what message the lyrics will contain.
Having just walked off with three awards from the ‘25th Golden Disk Awards‘ last night, the girls of SNSD girls added yet another prestigious award to their list of accomplishments.
Earlier this morning, the group was recognized by the ‘2010 Proud Korean Awards‘ for their contributions to national unity and their positive representation of South Korea to the world. They were awarded as winners of the ‘Art Category’ by the Journalists’ Association of Korea.
Members Hyo Yeon, Seo Hyun and Sunny were present to receive the honor.
Check out the event photos below!
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