All you need is one male group and one female group to suck the money out from our wallets kthx

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

We are now in a generation when once you have one hit-song-producing idol group in your company, you will survive well in the competition in the Kpop market of this era.

Kpop big players YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, DSP Entertainment and JYP Entertainment have been up busy with their plans to stay in the competition, and they all each had their representative female/male idol group.





The first company to push a big-scale project in year 2009 is YG. They preparing to debut a female group with the help of the name of their existing group Big Bang, which debuted in 2006. Known as ‘female Big Bang‘ until recently, the group official name is set to be ‘21, To Anyone’.

21, who is set to debut in May, has come together to sing a CM song with group Big Bang. And this has produced great synergy for the debuting group. The song the 2 groups sang together ‘Lollipop’ has risen up various online music chart steadily, standing in same level as other singers like Son DamBi, Seo Taiji, Super Junior etc. Not only so, being the first YG female group, there is more anticipation for this upcoming group.



As for JYP, who created the ‘So Hot’ craze last year with its girl group WonderGirls, have no other plans to make another representative male group. Because already, they are covering both groups of fans loving ballads and dance songs with their male groups 2AM and 2PM.



Recently into their individual activities like drama and musical, group SS501’s company DSP Entertainment is also putting its hopes on its girl group KARA who debuted in 2007 and was given the nickname of ‘the 2nd Fin.K.L‘. OH HALE NAW

And KARA was said to have live up to the name of South Korea’s representative girl group with the title song ‘Honey’ shooting up to the #1 spot on various music programs and charts from their 2nd minialbum released last December. With this, they join the league of girl groups like So Nyeo Shi Dae and WonderGirls.



And lastly, company SM Entertainment which gave birth to many Kpop legends like H.O.T and BoA have its representative girl group So Nyeo Shi Dae dominate the first half of 2009 with the song ‘Gee’.

SM’s own representative group Dong Bang Shin Ki, already with their numerous fanbases established overseas, also said, “Whenever we turn on the TV, we see So Nyeo Shi Dae.” boys, plz to be remembering that you guys are also on alot of tv shows ya

One of the Kpop producers provided, “We have stepped into an era where you just need one successful singer to be safe in competition in the Kpop market. With a successful male or female group in the company, the new incoming singers get the benefit of attracting more attention to themselves and having more advertisement. And right now, this is the time when idol groups are viewed as important to hit into the market of the music fans in their teens and twenties. And that is why many companies are working hard to push their male or female idol groups.”



With this, there are news that group Jewelry’s company is also in the midst of preparation for the debut of a new male group.


Academic Source: Sookyeong


This is trufax. Also, how about a new tag for 21 aka SISTAHS aka female Big Bang.

Comments

[uglypricetag.livejournal.com]

KARA was said to have live up to the name of South Korea’s representative girl group

*coughs*

[trannas.livejournal.com]

LOL at the "academic source"



Kibum's ready to slap a ho because Super Junior wasn't mentioned.

And am I the only one who isn't too fond of Kara?

[lex0715.livejournal.com]

im no kara fan too..
i liked them back then with break it and secret world..
then they had to now be a 5 member group who sings pretty girl and honey??
errrrr... sorry but they're not getting me..
and they're no fin kl! sorry, big hyori fan..

[aistay.livejournal.com]

yeahh why is there no picture of sj either

[petticoatvixen.livejournal.com]

KARA was a lot like Fin.K.L in the beginning when they still had Sung Hee. Their sound was the most mature in terms of vocals back then, they could out sing all of the current girl groups. Of course then she failed to get into college and her dad yanked her out of the group so the replaced her with two mediocre members. I think it says something if both SM and YG rejected Gu Ha Ra and before DSP finally choose her.

[petticoatvixen.livejournal.com]

I mixed the two up, I always either forget YG or JYP.

I haven't been that impressed by any of the new male groups except for Shinee, but only because of their album. I hated their single.

[chrismakkuh.livejournal.com]

So Nyeo Shi Dae dominate the first half of 2009 with the song ‘Gee’.


Do any of these people know how to count? Shall I give a lesson?

There are 12 months in a year. Half of 12 is 6. We are gearing to go into the 4th month of the year 2009. How the fuck does one dominate half a year...6 FUCKING MONTHS in less than 4?


WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE ARTICLE WRITERS?!

[imhitomi.livejournal.com]

I just got into Kara like a week ago and they do seem like a serious underdog group.