Vocalist Kang Kyun Sang of the ballad group Noel released the teaser for his project album “Clef Project 1/4” through the official LOEN Entertainment YouTube channel on May 10. The video teaser is for the main track “Just Look at the Sky” and shows Kang Kyun Sang doing just that in a forest. The teaser hints at a mid tempo song with a string background. The video ends with ...
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The fantastic song from the “Kangchi, the Beginning” mini series from the popular new drama “Gu Family Book” has revealed its singer and the music video through the official LOEN Entertainment YouTube channel. The music video also comes with English subtiles for the lyrics. The song “My Love is Hurt” from the OST is sung by Lee Sang Goon, the leader of the ball...
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Not a lot of changes on the chart this week as Yang Yoseob’s “Caffeine” hold on for the top spot for yet another week, – its fourth straight week on top. “Caffeine” is still going very strong, not only gaining points from last week but also eclipsing the 900 point mark for the fourth week in a row. Next week Yeseob will face a strong challenger if he wants to be on top for the fifth week. ...
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Happy New Year to all our readers. We are back this week after our break for the 2012 Soompi Gayo Awards. We are set to begin our 9th year of the weekly K-Pop music chart. As usual, at the beginning of each year, we are making some changes to our chart sources to better reflect what is popular in the K-Pop world. You will see below that we have a format change to make it look more sophisticated...
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Yang Yoseob’s “Caffeine” repeats as No. 1 on our last music chart of this year. For the second straight week, “Caffeine” won over Lee Seung Ki’s “Return” and is the only song score over 900 points. “Caffeine” is also gaining ground in TV network rankings as it became the new No. 1 song on M!Countdown this week. There are three new songs in the top 10 this week. The highest entry in the top 10 is a...
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BEAST’s main vocalist Yang Yoseob did something that the group has not yet accomplished on our chart so far in their career – to have a No. 1 song. Yoseob’s “Caffeine” moves up nine spots to the top in just its second week on the chart, easily defeating last week’s No. 1 song, Juniel’s “Bad Person.” BEAST came close this summer with “Beautiful Night” hitting No. 2. If not because of “Gangnam Styl...
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Big changes are taking place in the top 10 this week. The new No. 1 and 2 songs were not even in the top 10 last week. Juniel becomes the third consecutive female rookie soloist to score her first No. 1 song as “Bad Person” moves up from No. 13 to No. 1 this week. Together with Ailee and Lee Ha Yi, the trio seems to be front runners for this year’s best new artist awards, and they are the only ...
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Even though PSY took the world by storm with his “Gangnam Style” sensation, if we talk about how many songs from one artist or team made it to the top, PSY unfortunately didn’t win that record. Flip through the gallery to see who had the most hits this year and which songs were most loved by the Korean public! Can you guess who are the top 9 artists this year? 8. T-Ara (5 hits)“Day by Day,” “Lo...
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After three weeks at No. 2, Ailee’s “I Will Show You” finally moves up to the top spot this week. It is her first No. 1 song. Despite steadily dropping in points for the last two weeks, “I Will Show You” was able to move up to No. 1 thanks in part to Lee Ha Yi’s “1,2,3,4” which dropped to No. 5 this week. Lee Ha Yi has released a new single, the JYP written “Scarecrow.” The strategy apparently ba...
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Previously K-Pop was taken over by machine-generated sounds of electronica, but the trend is making a transition to more easy-listening analogue music. On November 29, Lee Seung Gi, vocal group Noel, and Roy Kim‘s names are listed at the top of several music streaming charts, showing the apparent change in K-Pop trends from electronic dance music to analogue, sentimental vocal music. Lee Se...
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