The duo, Junho and Van Ness Wu, have released the teaser video for the theme song "Unbeatable" of the Taiwanese drama "Set Chocolate." For this song, Junho insisted that he wanted to sing in Chinese and he proved a shocking fluency while recording the song. The producers praised him for his skills by saying: "It was a surprise because he didn’t have much time to have any practice and yet his pronunciation and fluency is perfect.
Category: Music
Will SHINee Be Able to Make $50 Million USD in Sales?
SHINee is embarking on a series of concerts in Japan. "The First Japan Arena Tour – SHINee World 2012" will start on April 25 in Fukuoka, and will be performing in Hokkaido, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Tokyo, and Hiroshima. This arena tour consists of 20 concerts and SHINee is expecting to attract approximately 250,000 people in the audience.
KBS Music Bank – April 20, 2012
This week’s K-Chart was a battle between 4Minute and CNBLUE, but CNBLUE’s charming upbeat song “Hey You” won them this weeks K-Chart!
Todays comeback stages where held by colourful Girl’s Day with their new song "Oh! My God!", playful Sunny Hill with "Princess and Prince Charming", Nell with a moving performace of "The Day Before" and Noel with the song "Fading Away". SHINee did a flawless performance of "Sherlock" ending their promotions for the song.
Other performances today include: 4minute, Shinhwa SISTAR, NU’EST, EXO-K, SPICA, Noel, 5tion, Seo In Guk, Yangpa, Davichi & HANNA, M4 and many more!
Sighted! Big Bang Shooting Commercial in Korea
We heard Big Bang was shooting a TV commercial in Gwanghwamun Plaza this morning for the Visit Korea Year Campaign, so we made sure to run over there to snap some pictures for all of you Soompiers!
When we showed up, the boys were already on stage and getting ready to perform their little jingle for the cameras. After one shoot, they went downstairs and to the back, presumably to do some interviews or review what they had just shot. The second time around, we were able to go behind into their tent and see the boys upclose as they had Morgane, another Soompi Team member, ask the boys a couple random questions for an SBS interview segment.
Infinite’s "Be Mine" Reaches #2 on Oricon Charts on the Day of Release
Infinite released their second Japanese single "Be Mine" on April 18. On the day of its release, "Be Mine" was immediately ranked at the second place on Oricon Daily Chart with 28,192 copies sold. "Be Mine" was originally released in Korea in 2011 and Infinite won first place on music ranking shows with the song.
The Winner for the Big Bang Dance Cover Competition Announced
Team "Trend Factory" won the Big Bang dance cover competition "FANTASTIC 1." The decision was made based on online voting poll as well as each members of Big Bang’s judgement. Trend Factory successfully parodied and portrayed props and each Big Bang members’ facial expressions in their cover music video of "Fantastic Baby" and received many compliments from both Netizens and Big Bang.
Super Junior Sells Out Another Concert in Japan
The Super Junior world tour, "Super Show 4," that is going to be held at the Tokyo Dome for a couple days, May 12 and May 13, is sold out. On April 19, Super Junior’s Ryeowook wrote a message through his twitter about how the show was sold out. He wrote, "’Tokyo Dome," even until yesterday we said..Super Junior’s exclusive performance. Wow! We heard that it’s sold out. I feel choked up. Thank you."
Park Jin Young Hints at 2PM’s New Album and Gives Update on His Upcoming Single
On April 19, Park Jin Young (JYP) gave an update on his new single and also hinted at a possible 2PM album sometime in the summer. Through his personal Twitter page, JYP wrote in English, “After finishing Wonder Girls US album, finally finished the Wonder Girls Korean 1st single! Also a quick surprise for 2PM fans this summer~!”
U-KISS Releases Music Video Teaser For "DORADORA"
“DORA DORA” is scheduled to drop on April 25. On the same day, U-Kiss will be making their comeback performances on “M! Countdown Hello Japan – M! Countdown One Asia Tour.”
TVXQ Has Over 550,000 Fans in Japan Come See Them
TVXQ had over 550,000 fans come see them on their Japan tour. A representative from their agency, SM Entertainment, said, "With the ‘Live Tour 2012 – TONE’ that started in January, they drew in about 550,000 people."