Artist of the week – Jun Jin

Our featured artist this week is Shinhwa’s Jun Jin. Following the footsteps of Shin Hye Sung and Lee Min Woo (aka M), Jun Jin becomes the 3rd Shinhwa member to release his solo song. Like many other singers branched out from a group, Jun Jin choose to hav

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2006 Staff Recommended K-pop Songs And Albums

 2006 has just ended and we’ve known the results of all music award shows, including our own soompi gayo awards. Once again I am back with our staff recommended top 20 songs of the year, a post that I have written each year sin

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Weekly Music Chart 2007 – January week 1

As we get into 2007 I am making some major changes to the chart. I am expanding this chart from 20 to 50 songs. Most of the Korean music charts have 50 songs anyway so we are now in line with them.

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Artist of the week – Sung Shi Kyung

Our featured artiste of the week is Sung Shi Kyung. Ever since he debuted in 2001 he’s been one of the top male artistes in Korea. With his magical voice, he’s able to convert ordinary songs into masterpieces. He is mainly a ballad artiste, but has also t

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2006 Soompi Gayo Award Results

2006 is a year of change in k-pop. On the bright side, we had a lot of good new artists debuting, and also a lot of current or former group members releasing their first solo albums. Most of these current or former group members cho

Top 20 – December week 4

DBSG’s "풍선" (Balloons) stayed at the No. 1 spot for the 2nd week in a row. The top 3 songs also remain unchanged with Sung Shi Kyung’s "거리에서" (On The Street) still at No. 2 and Se7en

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Top selling k-pop albums – November 2006

DBSG Vol. 3 had very strong sales numbers in November, not only becoming the month’s top seller, but also leapfrogging SG Wannabe Vol. 3 to become the No. 1 selling album in all of k-pop in 2006!1. DBSG Vol. 3 – "O"-正.反.合.

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