2NE1's "I Am the Best" continues making impressions in America as it begins picking up spins on stateside radio.
In the week ending Oct. 19, the electronic/hip-hop hybrid single was played 24 times on WBMP New York and 14 times on WODS Boston. Both stations published accompanying articles on their respective websites about the band and "I Am the Best," with WODS Boston telling readers to listen for the song on air.
The airplay comes just two weeks after "I Am the Best" earned its best sales week yet in America (6,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan) and topping Billboard's World Digital Songs chart -- a first for a Korean act other than PSY. "Best" is currently at No. 2 on the chart after selling 3,000 copies in the week ending Oct. 12. The single pushed another 3,000 the prior week.
"Best" originally began its upward climb after being used in a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet laptop ad, doing what any good sync should do and helping its accompanying music grow past its ad-watching audience.
The radio play of a non-English song, other than PSY, is particularly exciting for K-pop fans not to mention general world music fans. It's also a major win for 2NE1 given the quartet's strong appeal in the United States: The group featured on will.i.am's #willpower album, was Korea's first female act to hold stadium shows in America and just last week member CL announced plans to push a solo career stateside with Scooter Braun.
Hello Venus added 2 new members for the group
The new members will be revealed through the teaser to be released tomorrow (22, 10am KST on Naver Music)
Hello Venus added 2 new members for the group
The new members will be revealed through the teaser to be released tomorrow (22, 10am KST on Naver Music)
Hello Venus added 2 new members for the group
The new members will be revealed through the teaser to be released tomorrow (22, 10am KST on Naver Music)
Red Velvet says they do things diligently and "are always practicing hard in their song and dance, aiming to be a group with self-confidence. The reporter asked, “Are you all really singing live?” with a look that expressed doubt. To which Irene replied with a slight aggravated tone, “We are truly doing it live, you can trust us on that.”
1. Lee Sooman: "Lip-syncing is also a genre of music!" We are aware of this directly from SM's words...
[+1,423] [-90]
2. SM has some good live singers in TVXQ, SHINee, TaeTiSeo, etc. The problem is that the company has a set of groups that are merely dancers who just lip-sync like goldfish or frolic around like dogs. SM has been branded as the lip-syncing company...
[+1,385] [-275]
3. I will need them to get different hair styles so I could distinguish each other their faces
[+1,184] [-102]
4. Things can be quite misleading. I've figured this when they were performing Happiness live. I could still notice when things were prerecorded. As if an ignorant human being cannot be classify live or prerecorded. I have witnessed their stage several times, but even when it was live there were noticeable backing tracks.
[+1,216] [-443]
5. Now matter how you try to look, they all seem alike...can any fans even tell their faces apart...their faces lack distinct features that it would take someone skilled at identifying slight differences to otherwise know who is each
[+915] [-260]
Red Velvet says they do things diligently and "are always practicing hard in their song and dance, aiming to be a group with self-confidence. The reporter asked, “Are you all really singing live?” with a look that expressed doubt. To which Irene replied with a slight aggravated tone, “We are truly doing it live, you can trust us on that.”
1. Lee Sooman: "Lip-syncing is also a genre of music!" We are aware of this directly from SM's words...
[+1,423] [-90]
2. SM has some good live singers in TVXQ, SHINee, TaeTiSeo, etc. The problem is that the company has a set of groups that are merely dancers who just lip-sync like goldfish or frolic around like dogs. SM has been branded as the lip-syncing company...
[+1,385] [-275]
3. I will need them to get different hair styles so I could distinguish each other their faces
[+1,184] [-102]
4. Things can be quite misleading. I've figured this when they were performing Happiness live. I could still notice when things were prerecorded. As if an ignorant human being cannot be classify live or prerecorded. I have witnessed their stage several times, but even when it was live there were noticeable backing tracks.
[+1,216] [-443]
5. Now matter how you try to look, they all seem alike...can any fans even tell their faces apart...their faces lack distinct features that it would take someone skilled at identifying slight differences to otherwise know who is each
[+915] [-260]
‘Mix & Match’ Final Match Receives Over 150,000 Attendance Requests
With only the final match left for the survival program Mix & Match, the fans have been showing enthusiastic interest.
YG Entertainment revealed on October 21, “The accepted application to attend Mix & Match,’s final match between October 14 through 19. A total of 150,000 applied for the event, which will select 1,000 (total of 2,000 seats) audience members.” Those thousand will be the only ones part of the Korean finale voting team on who will become one of the members of iKON.
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@timthemine: AKMU's Soohyun will be singing in Happen Ending with Epik High for their live stages
better late than never
