‘Oh!’ is the No.1 video on ’2010 YouTube REWIND’

SNSD’s videos were ranked 1st and 2nd on YouTube Korea’s ’2010 YouTube REWIND’.

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.

The 25th Golden Disk Awards 2010 : Results

Disk Daesang
Winner: SNSD

Samsung YEPP Digital Daesang
Winner: 2AM

Disk Bonsang
Winners:
1. DJ DOC
2. SHINee
3. SNSD
4. Super Junior
5. BoA

Digital Bonsang
Winners:
1. 2AM
2. IU
3. Miss A
4. CN Blue
5. Lee Seunggi

Samsung YEPP Newcomers’ Awards
Winners:
1. BEAST
2. Secret
3. Sistar

Ceci Popularity Awards
Winners:
1. SNSD
2. SHINee

MSN Asian Popularity Award
Winner: Super Junior

COSMOPOLITAN Rock Award
Winner: F.T Island

Hip Hop Award
Winner: Supreme Team

Production Award
Winner: Hong Seungsong

Achievement Award
Winner: Park Choonsuk

Mobile popularity voting for 20th High1 Seoul Music Awards kicks off

As 2010 is coming to an end soon, the mobile popularity voting process of ‘20th High1 Seoul Music Awards‘ kicks off with a fierce competitions among fans to select the winners for this year’s awards. In the previous edition of the award ceremony, SNSD won the ‘Daesang (highest/top award)‘.

The “20th High1 Seoul Music Awards’ will be held on January 20th, 2011 at the Hall of Peace, Kyunghee University in Hoegi-dong, Seoul. The nominees with the most mobile popularity votes will be awarded 20% (from total points) for the “High1 Popularity Award” category. The real-time result of the mobile voting is shown on Seoul Music Awards website.

In terms of mobile votes (at the time this article is published), Beast is leading the pack in the ‘Bonsang’ category with 21.7%, Super Junior in 2nd with 18.8%, 2PM in 3rd with 12.5%. SNSD (Oh! and Run Devil Run) is currently in 4th with 9.2%.

In the ‘Newcomers’ Award’ category, Daeguk NamA (D-NA) is currently in the pole position with 34.9%, CN Blue in 2nd place with 33.1% followed by F.Cuz in 3rd with 15.7%.

As for the ‘Popularity Award’ category, SHINee is currently in the lead with 32.2%, SNSD (Oh! and Run Devil Run) is in 2nd place with 22.9% and followed closely by Super Junior in 3rd with 22.8%.

The ’20th High1 Seoul Music Awards’ is organized by Sports Seoul and sponsored by High1 Resort and it will be aired LIVE on y★star and Comedy TV on January 20th, 2011 from 7.00pm to 10.00pm KST.

Yuri gave the deepest impression to Eun Hyuk

On KBS 2TV’s “Night Star” which will be aired at 11.15pm KST on November 28th, Super Junior’s Eun Hyuk and SNSD members talked about their first impressions of one another.

Hyo Yeon said, “During trainee days, I was really nervous when I first met Eun Hyuk. He would greet me in an honorific manner when we met at the rehearsal room”.

Eun Hyuk explained, “SNSD gave me a strong impression, especially Yuri who made the dinosaur-like noises during her pre-debut days” He also mentioned that before debut, the trainees would have to prepare for their personal repertoires every week and it involved singing and dancing. Eun Hyuk added, “Yuri then made an impersonation of ‘dinosaur voice’ by mistake on one of the entertainment programs”.

Upon hearing that, Yoona revealed, “At that time, besides the dinosaur-like noise, Yuri also did other weird impersonations as well”. Yuri then was asked to reenact those weird and wacky impersonations.

Super Junior’s Eun Hyuk thought SNSD’s Soo Young was the prettiest before debut

Super Junior’s Eun Hyuk recently revealed of a special ‘relationship’ he had with SNSD’s Soo Young back before their debut.

During a recent recording of KBS 2TV’s night variety show, ‘Nocturnal Habits’, guest MC Eunhyuk revealed that he was the closest with guest member Sooyoung before their debuts.

Eun Hyuk confessed they often liked going to the board games room together.

He said jokingly, “Back then, Soo Young liked me a little.” To this, Soo Young replied, “It wasn’t Eun Hyuk that I liked, it was the board games!”

Eun Hyuk also shared that he first saw Soo Young while she was at her profile photoshoot, and said, “At the time, Soo Young had really long hair, and thought she was the prettiest out of all the SNSD members. She was so pretty that she looked like a Barbie doll.”

The full episode is scheduled to air on November 28th at 11:15 PM KST.

SNSD participate in donation to help Thailand flood victims

According to Korea-Thailand Communication Centre (KTCC) Korean stars donated their goods for a charity event, ‘Korea Festival 2010‘ which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 30th to December 5th.

More than 130 Korean stars made their donations for the event. They are Lee Min Ho, Lee Joon Ki, Lee Jung Jae, Lee Da Hae, Ha Jung Woo, Kim SunA, Kim Rae Won, Jo Hyun Jae, Gong Yu, Kang Ho dDng, Lee Soo Geun, Super Junior, SNSD, Brown Eyed Girls, TVXQ’s Yunho and Changmin and many others. “Winter Sonata” and “Autumn In My Heart”‘s Yoon Sukho PD as well as “Full House”‘s Pyo Minsoo PD also supported the event by making donations respectively.

The ‘Korea Festival 2010′ is organized by The Ministry of Culture Thailand and the aim is to provide help to 3 million victims who were affected by the recent flood in Thailand.

Hee Chul transformed into SNSD’s 10th member

featured DJ Hee Chul and the girls in various poses and expressions were uploaded and published on November 16th. In the second photo (from the top), Hee Chul showed no awkwardness while doing the “Hoot” pose with SNSD members. On the photo, the author who published the photo also mentioned that Hee Chul looks as ‘pretty’ as the girls and how he ‘blended in’ well with them.

As soon as the photos were released, netizens commented:

-”It looks as if Heechul is dancing “Hoot” on stage now”
-”It’s good to see that Heechul and the girls are really close to one another”

SM Artistes cheer on students taking their College Entrance Exams

SM entertainment just uploaded videos of SM artistes, cheering for students taking their College Entrance Exams.

This includes Super Junior, Girls Generation, SHINee & f(x).

Check out their cheering! I'm sure with their cheering, the students are very motivated to work hard and will do their best!^^

Super Junior's Cheering:



Girl's Generation (SNSD) Cheering:


SHINee's Cheering:

f(x)'s Cheering:

SM Entertainment continues to cash in profit for the 3rd Quarter of 2010

Currently Korea's Largest Entertainment agency, SM Entertainment continues to show a strong performance in terms of profit this 3rd quarter of the year.

KOSDAQ has listed the earning's of agencies on the 15th of November and the total profit and earnings of SM Entertainment was revealed.

For the third quarter of the year, SM Entertainment was able to have a revenue of 20.704 billion won with a 4.58 billion won operating profit and a net income of 2.7 billion won. They are reportedly to have a 26.04% increase in revenue, 92.65% increase in operating profit and 11.59% increase in net profit. This is their earnings for the third quarter alone with their artist SNSD being active this quarter of the year in their successful expansion in Japan and Korea.

For the three quarters that passed, SM Entertainment has a strong sales of 68.232 billion won which is a cumulative revenue, 23.187 billion won in cumulative operating profit and 20.387 billion won in cumulative net profit.

Last year in 2009, SM Entertainment ended up victorious in terms of profit having 61.788 billion won revenue for the year of 2009, having 9.266 billion won in operating profit and 4.471 billion won in net profit. It can be seen that their profits increased this year surpassing their total profit in 2009 with only three quarters in 2010.

SNSD and Super Junior are going strong battling head to head with top artist online votes in 2010 Melon Awards

SNSD and Super Junior are competing head to head for the Top artist award in the 2010 Melon Music Awards.

The online voting for the Top 10 artists started on the 11th of November and after 4 days, on the 15th of November, SNSD is still number 1 but is having a head to head competition with Super Junior for the number 1 spot.

Currently, SNSD and Super Junior have 22% of the votes but SNSD is number 1 leading with over 544 votes more than Super Junior showing them being tied for the first spot.

SHINee is following closely ranking 3rd having 9% lower than SNSD and Super Junior. The top 3 spots are taken by SM Entertainment artists showing their huge fan base, f(x) is steadily rising up now ranking 5th.


In addition, 2pm, 2am, BEAST, KARA and other idols are also having heavy competition to be in the top 10 spots.

The 2010 Melon Music Awards will be held this coming 15th of December at Kyunghee University in Seoul and it will be broadcast live on MBC and Melon's official website.

SNSD on Hee Chul’s Youngstreet Radio with their new songs!

SNSD appeared on their oppa's radio show Hee Chul's Young Street,the girls sing their new songs Hoot and Best Friend there,check out the video clips below :


My Best Friend


Hoot

SNSD’s Soo Young, Super Junior's Si Won & Shin Se Kyung pay a visit to an ALS patient

Photos of actress , SNSD member Soo Young, and Super Junior’s Si Won and Shin Se Kyung meeting ex-professional basketball coach Park Seung Il recently surfaced, gathering the attention of many fans.

Park Seung Il is an ex-professional basketball player and coach, who has unfortunately been suffering from a motor neuron disease called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The disease is progressive, fatal, and neurodegenerative, caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, essentially degrading any voluntary muscular movement.

He was unexpectedly greeted by Shin Se Kyung, Soo Young, Super Junior’s Si Won, and actors Yang Dong Geun and Jung Joon, who came to support him during his treatment.

These pictures were actually taken last month and was uploaded onto Park Seung Il’s fan cafe called, ‘Fighting ALS together with Park Seung Il’, but had only caught the netizens’ attentions recently.

Netizens have been particularly touched by the pictures of Soo Young and Shin Se Kyung , giving Park Seung Il heartwarming kisses on his cheek.

Suju’s Lee Teuk refers to news articles written about him and SNSD’s Tae Yeon

On this week’s ‘Star King’, Super Junior’s leader, Lee Teuk, directly referred to the rumor spreading about him and SNSD’s Tae Yeon being in a relationship.

In the episode, a fisherman from Kunsan, Kim Hyun Bong, came on as a contestant for the second time.

When Kim Hyun Bong came on, Lee Teuk said, “There were so many articles about you. I got a lot of articles too”, referring to the articles written about the possible relationship between him and Tae Yeon.

MC Kang Ho Dong got suspicious and asked, “Celebrities usually try to hide their relationships, but why are you directly referring to it?” Lee Teuk simply replied with, “It’s been such a long time since articles were written about me”, making the studio burst into laughter.

On the other hand, Lee Teuk denied all rumors about dating Tae Yeon during a recent broadcast of MBC’s ‘Radiostar’.

Lee Teuk denies rumors about being in a relationship with Tae Yeon

Super Junior’s Lee Teuk denied on the September 23rd airing of “Radio Star” regarding the rumors of him in a dating relationship with SNSD’s Tae Yeon.

He opened up to the MCs and fellow guest on his recent “couple earring” incidents.

To the “pestering” questions from the MC, he replied, “I personally bought those bunny earrings. In fact, I was the first to buy it. It was purely coincidental that she wore an identical piece.”

Shin Dong added a spice of humor by stating, “If MC Kim Gura wore the earrings, such rumors wouldn’t have popped up.”

SM Entertainment denies Tae Yeon and Lee Teuk are dating

It was revealed earlier that SNSD’s leader, Tae Yeon, was sporting the same earrings as Super Junior’s leader, Lee Teuk, which then spiraled into dating rumors.

SM Entertainment quickly stepped in to deny the fact that the two are in any sort of romantic relationship.

Lee Teuk was spotted wearing the earrings during the press conference at SM TOWN LIVE ‘10, which took place in Los Angeles just a few days ago. Tae Yeon sported the same pair of earrings when she attended a red carpet event for the animated film, Despicable Me.

An official from SM Entertainment stated, “It’s just a matter of pure coincidence. I’m honestly at loss for words.”

SNSD’s Yoona & Super Junior’s Si Won release SPAO 2010 CF

With the 2 idol groups, SNSD and Super Junior, already coming together for the SPAO 2010 Fall/Winter collection, Yoona and Si Won are back with a 30 second CF for fans to enjoy.

It starts off with Siwon writing ‘Big Hit, Warm Heat‘, which is the collection they’re endorsing, followed by short messages and some pictures of the idols sporting some fashionable clothes from the collection, featuring Lee Teuk and Eun Hyuk.

Check it out below.

Hee Chul is as pretty as Yoona and Seo Hyun

On August 19th, a photo of SNSD’s Yoona, Seo Hyun, along with Super Junior’s Hee Chul was revealed through an internet community site.

The trio from SM Entertainment, known to be close friends, all have their faces close-up in the photo. However, one thing that has caught the eyes of many netizens was Heechul’s beauty.

Regardless of his gender, Heechul showcases a pretty boy image amongst the two girls, almost looking like a girl himself.

Netizens shared their opinions such as, “Kim Hee Chul looks the prettiest!,” “When Hee Chul applies his girl makeup on, he looks even better,” “His beauty doesn’t fall back amongst the SNSD girls” and “There are other photos where Hee Chul is even more pretty.”

Although some complimented Heechul’s beauty, other netizens replied back, “Of course SNSD, being the girls, look more pretty~ Kim Heechul is handsome.”

SNSD + Super Junior for SPAO Fall/Winter collection

Back in November of 2009, both SM Entertainment groups SNSD/Girl's Generation and Super Junior endorsed clothing for E. Land Group’s clothing label, SPAO. They’ve been working together since on endorsing the brand since then and now they’re back endorsing the upcoming Fall / Winter collection.

SPAO has recently released the 2010 Fall Winter Making / Behind The Scenes film. The themes in the video include Family Hood, Harvard Yale, Best Wool, Star Fit Down, Romantic, Girlish, Friendly, Sporty, Preppy, Biker Leather and more. Many thanks to blueman2 for the tip and check out the video below.

Yuri is Heechul’s pick as the best chocolate color beauty

After a long pause since he last posted a selca with a female celebrity, Heechul has gotten back on track with a new selca taken with SNSD’s Yuri.

On July 3rd, Heechul was backstage with Yuri at Music Core where he took a picture with her and tweeted, “The universe’s best chocolate color beauty. On stage, Yuri shows qualities of 99.9% cacao, but on entertainment shows, she shows a white and clean image like that of milk chocolate. Just wrote this ment and in the process of getting it confirmed.”

Sunny and Luna got busted by Eunhyuk?

On June 25th, Super Junior’s Eunhyuk tweeted pictures of SNSD’s Sunny and f(x)’s Luna getting caught trying to steal a snack from Super Junior’s snack box.

The pictures see Sunny and Luna with a surprised look after being caught trying to take Super Junior’s stuff. Eunhyuk wrote, “Luna… Sunny… You can’t do this… Someone please buy them something to eat…

Netizens replied back things such as, “Cute~,” “I want to buy them something to eat,” “It would be heartwarming to see them share the snacks,” etc.