Billboard: PSY paving the way for other Asian acts?
Wonder Girls
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Psy's K-Pop breakthrough on U.S. top 40 radio with "Gangnam Style" is perhaps helping open doors for fellow Korean act Wonder Girls. The group is percolating under the Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs tally with the English-language single "Like Money," featuring Akon (JYP). The song could be the female quintet's first airplay chart hit in the U.S., thanks to early support from WXRK New York, WKSE Buffalo, N.Y., and WKSZ Green Bay, Wis.
Priyanka Chopra
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Beyond K-Pop, top 40 could find another new hit from Asia as award-winning Indian actress Priyanka Chopra has released her debut Interscope single "In My City," featuring will.i.am. Not only is Chopra signed to the same label as Lady Gaga, but she also shares her manager: Troy Carter. Ahead of its planned radio push, the uptempo pop/dance track, which Chopra co-wrote with RedOne and Ester Dean, begins with 5,000 first-week downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her debut album is due later this year.
Like Money is already decreasing as airplay, at least they peaked at #46 on Pop so that's not bad (it actually is but let's it did something).
The girls need to hurry releasing a second single before they can call it a quit, sadly.
I sure hope not. K-pop sounds pretty much the same as American pop, except the acts are manufactured by record labels and the songs are in Korean. Gangam Style won't have any lasting impact - it is destined to be the Macarena of Korean music.
