Saturday, April 23, 2011

Korean popular idols cross boundaries globally with popular songs!


Big Bang was recently featured on Malaysian newspaper ‘Berita Harian’ and here is the excerpt.awesome~!!!!

Nowadays, Korean music fever or Kpop has been very popular among Kpop fans in Asia. As if, it has become part of the culture in many Asian countries. Our country,Malaysia is also one of them.

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It started with Seo Taiji & boys and after 2 decades, many popular names started to color the music industry. They rised so fast until they got high profit and not only for them but also for their label company as well. Big Bang, one of the famous group for example managed to collect approximately RM50 million in 2007.

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Last year, Taeyang and another girl group, 2NE1 also got into many charts in US and Canada. This year, Big Bang with their 4th mini album, TONIGHT has become a phenomenon who managed to get into top 10 in the iTunes chart and became the only one so far in the top 100 non English albums.

In America, these Korean artist have become very popular until popular producers from the US such as Will.i.am and Kanye West have shown their interest to work with them.

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