Weekly K-Pop Music Chart 2012 - March Week 3
Two words can sum up this week’s music chart: Big Bang. The five-member group dominated our music chart this week in a fashion that has never been done before. Big Bang has six songs in the top 20, including three songs in the top 10, in addition to haveing the new No. 1 song “Blue” this week. Big Bang’s latest mini-album “Alive” has six tracks (aside from the “intro”) and each track is considered a title song. All six tracks are very popular and ranked in almost all of our chart sources. So, for the first time in our seven year chart history, an artist has six songs on the chart in the same week.
Big Bang’s three top 10 hits include “Blue” (No. 1), and the new new top 10 entries “Bad Boy” (No. 6), and “Fantastic Baby” (No. 8). In addition, three other Big Bang songs are just outside of the top 10: “Love Dust” (No. 11), “A’int No Fun” (No. 12), and Dae Sung‘s solo hit “Wings” (No. 17). Don’t be surprised if all six Big Bang songs are in the top 10 next week. They may be battling each other for the top spot!
“Blue” replaces miss A’s “Touch” as the new No. 1 song with a very impressive score of 986. Of the six Big Bang songs on the chart, “Blue” is the song with the most commercial appeal. It was also the first released single of the mini-album, so it is not surprising that “Blue” is ranked the highest this week.
SOOMPI CHART for 2012, Month 3, Week 3
Score: 986
Genre: R&B
Music: Teddy, G Dragon / Lyrics: Teddy, G Dragon
Album: Big Bang Mini Album Vol. 5 | Purchase this Album
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Score: 911
Genre: Pop/Dance
Music: Park Jin Young / Lyrics: Park Jin Young
Album: Miss A mini-album “Touch” | Purchase this Album
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Score: 809
Genre: Pop Ballad
Music: Kim Do Hoon / Lyrics: Min Yeon Jae, Kim Ina, Kim Do Hoon
Album: K.Will Mini Album Vol. 3 | Purchase this Album
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Score: 775
Genre: R&B
Music: Wheesung / Lyrics: Wheesung
Album: Ailee digital single “Heaven”
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Score: 752
Genre: Pop Ballad
Music: Andy Platts, Jodie May Seymour / Lyrics: John Park
Album: John Park Mini Album Vol. 1 | Purchase this Album
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Score: 723
Genre: R&B
Music: G Dragon, Choice 37 / Lyrics: G Dragom
Album: Big Bang Mini Album Vol. 5 | Purchase this Album
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Score: 689
Genre: Pop Rock
Music: Kim Do Hoon, Lee Sang Ho / Lyrics: Han Sung Ho
Album: FT Island mini-album “Grown Up” | Purchase this Album
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Score: 600
Genre: R&B
Music: Teddy, G Dragon / Lyrics: G Dragom
Album: Big Bang Mini Album Vol. 5 | Purchase this Album
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Score: 588
Genre: Pop Ballad
Music: Jun Hae Sung / Lyrics: Jun Hae Sung
Album: Davichi digital single “Love Call With Davichi”
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Score: 562
Genre: R&B Ballad
Music: Park Jin Young / Lyrics: Park Jin Young
Album: Se7en New Mini Album | Purchase this Album
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| Rank | Artist | Song | Score |
| 11 | Big Bang (new) | 사랑먼지 (Love Dust) | 547 |
| 12 | Big Bang (new) | 재미없어 (Ain’t No Fun) | 408 |
| 13 | Lyn (new) | 비를 내려줘요 (Rain Down) | 392 |
| 14 | T-Ara (-4) | Lovey Dovey | 384 |
| 15 | Park Jae Bum (-6) | Know Your Name (feat. Dok2) | 366 |
| 16 | Block. B (-4) | 난리나 (Nanrina) | 365 |
| 17 | Big Bang (new) | 날개 (Wings (Dae Sung solo)) | 343 |
| 18 | Dal★shabet (–) | Hit U (feat. Bigtone) | 317 |
| 19 | Jin Woon (2AM), Jr., Kim Ji Soo, Kang Sora (+9) | B급인생 (Level B Life) | 297 |
| 20 | Brave Girls (-7) | 요즘 너 (Lately You) | 287 |
| 21 | Lee Seung Chul (-2) | 잊었니 (Did You Forget) | 274 |
| 22 | Sunny Hill (-11) | 베짱이 찬가 (The Grasshopper Song) | 255 |
| 23 | Gavy NJ (-6) | 그러고도 남자야 (You Call Yourself A Man (feat. Shorry)) | 254 |
| 24 | Spica (-2) | 러시안 룰렛 (Russian Roulette) | 245 |
| 25 | December (new) | 이 노랠 빌려서 (With This Song (feat. Elou, Irene)) | 243 |
| 26 | Lee Ki Chan (-10) | 아니기를 (Not To Be) | 241 |
| 27 | Haha & Taw (-6) | 사랑 (Love (with Gary, Kim Greem)) | 239 |
| 28 | Yang Dong Geun (new) | Just The Two Of Us (feat. Lee Jung & Bizzy) | 163 |
| 29 | EXID (-9) | Whoz That Girl | 162 |
| 30 | Trouble Maker (-3) | Trouble Maker | 160 |
| 31 | Navi (new) | 사랑은 너인 것 같아 (I Think My Love Is You) | 136 |
| 32 | Teen Top (-9) | 미치겠어 (Crazy) | 132 |
| 33 | Kim Bum Soo (-19) | 애인 있어요 (I Have A Lover) | 126 |
| 34 | M4 (new) | 사랑이 떠나가도 (Even If Love Leaves) | 124 |
| 35 | MBLAQ (new) | Run | 123 |
| 36 | 10cm (-7) | 애상 (Sorrow) | 122 |
| 37 | IU (-7) | 너랑 나 (You And I) | 111 |
| 38 | WE (+4) | Party | 105 |
| 39 | Hyorin, Jiyeon, Ailee (-14) | Super Star | 104 |
| 40 | Monday Kiz (new) | 그랬나봐 (It Was Just Like That) | 97 |
| 41 | B.A.P (-1) | Warrior | 95 |
| 42 | Na Yoon Kwon (-18) | 겁이 나서 (Because I Got Scared (feat. Baek Ji Young)) | 94 |
| 43 | Min Kyung Hoon (new) | 돌아보다 (Looking Back) | 88 |
| 44 | Hyo Rin (Sistar) (-13) | 널 사랑하겠어 (I Choose To Love You) | 78 |
| 45 | C-REAL (new) | Joma Joma | 77 |
| 46 | LEDApple (-11) | Time Is Up | 70 |
| 47 | Beast (-14) | 이럴 줄 알았어 (I Knew This Would Happen) | 69 |
| 48 | Fat Cat (new) | 꿈만 같아요 (Like A Dream) | 58 |
| 49 | Song Hye Gyo & John Park (new) | Switch | 57 |
| 50 | Stellar (-1) | UFO | 55 |
THIS WEEK IN 2008:
In this segment, we go back in time to re-visit charts of the same week in past years. The Soompi Music Chart began in January 2005. At first we had only 20 songs and later expanded to 50 songs.
The popular choice for March Week 3 would have been Kara. They topped our chart in March Week 3 of 2009 with “Honey” and in 2010 with “Lupin”. However, we are going to cover another song because of its significance.
Prior to Kara’s 2-year reign on March Week 3, Brown Eyed Girls hit No. 1 with “L.O.V.E” in 2008. This was a career changing hit for the group. Before this song, Brown Eyed Girls was known as a ballad group with very good talent and voices. It was a gamble to switch to dance pop hits but Brown Eyed Girls’ are so talented they pull it off. Listeners started to pay attention to their colorful costumes and choreography and became fans. “L.O.V.E” was a retro style dance hit that was beginning to get popular at the time. It became the group’s first No. 1 song and the rest is history. Every subsequent album title songs Brown Eyed Girls released went to the top of the chart, and all four members Jea, Narsha, Ga In, and Miryo branched out to release solo hits.
The success of “L.O.V.E” also paves the way for this song’s songwriters Lee Min Soo and Kim Ina, as they have written many great K-Pop hit songs after “L.O.V.E”.
Click here to re-visit the MV of “L.O.V.E”.
About the Soompi Music Chart:
Soompi Music Chart is unlike any other music charts or television rankings. It takes into account rankings by various major music charts in Korea and airplays of each song, making it an unbiased and objective tally of what’s going on in the world of K-pop. Our chart is composed of the following sources:
Air Monitor Chart – 15%
GAON Music Chart – 15%
Various Internet charts (Olleh, Bugs, Melon, Soribada, Naver, Daum) – 15%
Billboard Korea – 15%
SBS (Inky Gayo Take 7 + voting list) – 10%
MBC Inky Top 100 Chart – 10%
KBS Music Bank K-Chart – 10%
MNet Chart – 10%
Thanks to Mardi09 for helping on this week’s internet chart research.
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