2NE1 is #1 on illegal music download sites for 2 weeks consecutive, something to be happy about?

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Newcomer group 2NE1 has been #1 on illegal music download sites for 2nd week consecutively.

On illegal music download sites P2P and Webhard and also several other cafe sites, 2NE1’s debut song ‘Fire’ is #1 for the 2nd week taking up 24% of illegal music download contents.

This group has been famous even before their debut with their hit CM song ‘Lollipop’ and their nickname as the ‘female Big Bang‘. Even though this does show the group and the song popularity, it certainly have some harms on the legal single downloads. This also points to the need of more copyright controls on music content.


The rest of the chart results:

1. 2NE1 ‘Fire’
2. SeeYa, Davichi and JiYeon with ‘Female Generation’ (from #4 last week)
3. 2PM with hook song ‘Again & Again’
4. Super Junior with ‘It’s You’
5. ChaeYeon ‘Shake’

As we already know, ChaeYeon’s 2nd comeback album this time was also leaked out before the official release date. Plus because of the inappropriate content in the MV to the song ‘Shake’, the MV was banned from broadcast. Now that her song is #5 on illegal music download chart, it seemed that coming back as just sexy is so not enough for ChaeYeon.

Source: sookyeong

Uh, well, congrats?

Comments

[kaylapoo.livejournal.com]

LOL this reminds me i still need to dl Again & Again.

[yuukihitohira.livejournal.com]

lol, I thought the same thing.

[rencode.livejournal.com]

...Is this a GOOD thing???

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that like many Western p2p sites also the Korean ones list what are the most popular songs/albums/movies/dramas/etc. And there might be even some sites that keep tabs of all those p2p sites and calculate the daily/weekly/monthly averages for each category.

[fashionbang.livejournal.com]

lol congrats? .... um. cause people don't want to pay for it? (not gonna lie, i dl it and i'm pretty sure i'll never pay for their music...)

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

that's... nice... i guess.. o___O'
well, i downloaded it illegally too, so.. :'D

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

Lol it looks to me that the netizens want to listen to the song but is not enough attracted to actually buy the CD. ;| Poor JYP.

[herro-kitty.livejournal.com]

2NE1 are in YG tho

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

Oh ok lol. It shows when I'm spectacularly ignorant of a group.

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

I assumed there was a CD. Apparently I was wrong. If that's the case then it's pretty much lolcommon for netizens to dl them right? Unless they sell it on the internet which is also unappealing to some lol. @_@

/hopefully I make sense. if not it's because it's 3am. and there goes my logic.

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

No. So far, they only have a digital single.

[secretly-kanna.livejournal.com]

at least that means they're popular.
guess sometimes publicity stunts kills morals.

oh wait, that happens all the time.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Kinda expected when you release only a digital version.

[free-melody.livejournal.com]

It was only a one song digital single. Se7en's Girls was and I paid for that. Plus, I bet a lot of people wanted to know what they were getting into before they paid however much for ONE song. I'd be curious too if someone's entire career thus far was driven solely on hype.

[bgurl1210.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that mean a lot of people find their song not worth paying for? Also unlike the some of the other songs on the list theirs is a digital single. So there is no hard copy out there to buy. Either you pay or download illegally.

[bgurl1210.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean that's a bad thing. It's just that YG loses a lot of their revenue. The list does say mean a lot of people are interested in them and their popularity is rising.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

Maybe if they actually released something you can physically touch...

[vanny92.livejournal.com]

Fangirls would buy an album/single if it comes in a nice packaging with hot guys on the cover.

[kanaala.livejournal.com]

lol, this is my only reason for buying CDs XD

[deazaskia.livejournal.com]

is it bad? O___O