Akdong Musician on Debut Album, Working as Siblings & Overseas Reactions

[goldenrosalie.livejournal.com]

Upon releasing their debut album "Play," sibling duo Akdong Musician sent their breezy single "200%" to No. 1 on the K-Pop Hot 100, spending two weeks atop the chart. The K-pop stars (19-year-old brother Lee Chanhyuk and 16-year-old Lee Soohyun) sent two more "Play" tracks to the Top 10 and saw the LP hit No. 20 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart.
While the brother and sister relished in their chart success, their most pleasant surprise was the connection fans were making to their music – foreign fans, in particular.
"We believed that our music would only receieve love in Korea so we didn't have many expecations," Chanhyuk tells Billboard during an exclusive interview in AKMU's recording studio. "But when searching for us on YouTube, many of the replies were in English."
Soohuyn relates to her brother's findings. "Many people overseas did covers of '200%,'" she adds. "It was so interesting hearing foreigners covering our song and I thought, 'Wow foreigners are covering our song!'"
Watch the full interview to find out what they argue about, which artists they'd like to collaborate with and more.

Source: Billboard

This interview is absolutely adorable. Both speak english a bit, fanboy/fangirl about Tablo & IU, pick their favorite songs on debut album and Soohyun remains precious bbgirl!

Comments

[bbgroove.livejournal.com]

The adorabs just overflows in this

[mercury-sound.livejournal.com]

Their music really is "healing" music.
And it's absolutely adorable seeing them in interviews like this. They also chose awesome people as their inspirations; so all in all I'm very happy to be a fan of this group. :3

[liquidt1000.livejournal.com]

uglies siblings lmao

[kyokomurasaki.livejournal.com]

They're so cute! I'm a big Tablo fan as well so I think it's really sweet how he mentors his younger labelmates and helps them out while they're recording. It would be great if AKMU could do some shows in the US but I'm not holding my breath tbh.

[girltragedy.livejournal.com]

These two are the cutest ever. I love seeing the way they interact with other.

[dirrtypony.livejournal.com]

they look like hammsters

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

Well hamsters are cute and squishy....

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

It took me WAY too long to listen to their album, but it's been about 2+ weeks and I have no regrets.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

since they were invited to her last showcase
i dream with akmu and iu collaboration too
Soohyun you're my new favorite

[dharawal.livejournal.com]

They are so damned cute, and I like how they admit that they fight sometimes, I get the feeling that Chanhyuk really looks out for his sister.