Big Bang and Super Junior triumph over Britney Spears in 2011

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Boy groups Big Bang and Super Junior garnered a lot of international interest in 2011, having beat out international pop icon Britney Spears to achieve their titles as world stars.

First, Big Bang attended the 2011 MTV EMA‘s which were held in Belfast, Northern Ireland back in November.

The boys were nominated under the “World Wide Act Asia Pacific Nominees” category for the EMAs and won, advancing to the “Worldwide Act Nominees” category alongside famous international artists such as Abdelfattah Grini(Africa/India/Middle East), Lena (Europe), Restart (Latin America), and Britney Spears (North America).

Big Bang stunned the world, and themselves, by winning the award. They became the first Korean artist to ever achieve such a title, and Big Bang made their mark in K-pop history.

Britney Spears is a mega pop star, having gifted the world with hit after hit, and over the years has built a phenomenal fan base with her sexy performances and vocal talent. The fact that Big Bang won the award despite being up against the international superstar was especially noteworthy, and proved that they were qualified to be titled ‘world star’s.

The boys of Super Junior have also surpassed Britney Spears.

On December 6th, mashable along with twitter aggregate data analysis website What The Trend released their annual ‘Top 10 Twitter Trends‘ list. The company analyzed over 207,518 hash tags to identify the top trending topics of 2011.

Under the ‘Top 10 Trending Topic’s on Twitter’, popular idol group Super Junior ranked 4th under the artists category and 7th overall, just above Britney Spears and even the devastating Japan earthquake.

Under the artists category, the boys were #4 behind world-famous artists Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and the Jonas Brothers, respectively.

Big Bang and Super Junior are no longer idols only within the boundaries of Korea. They have made themselves known to a growing international audience receiving global applause and praise, and they are drawing high attention as fans are anxious to observe their next big ventures overseas.

Well, not so sure about them being known to a growing international audience... More like a really powerful fanbase. But YEAH

Source: BBupdate
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Comments

[queencleopatra.livejournal.com]

Good! Britney SUCKS and has done for a very long time!!!

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

Idk if that's an insult coming from someone who says things like "Has done for a very long time".

[unreal.livejournal.com]

IA about your comment OP.

[minakuu.livejournal.com]

ia

[beygos.livejournal.com]

restart was nominated?
oh wow lol

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

more like a really dedicated fanbase with a lot of free time :D

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

lol i dont have free time. I just waste my precious work/study/life time on fangirling instead. ;)

[caramelorchoco.livejournal.com]

just here to express excitement over the formation of sub-unit, DONGHAE & EUNHYUK :DDDDDDDDD

OPPA HAS ARRIVED gonna be released as a single!

congrats to both groups for this year's success, lol
i remember there was a gif of britney's expression when big bang won
anyone have it?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

If there is a gif it's not legit though, she wasn't at the ceremony.

[inati.livejournal.com]

i seriously laughed at how it went from big bang beating britney spears in winning an award to super junior beating britney spears in twitter trends.

[avages.livejournal.com]

well. britney spears is still the best in my heart.
/sad britney fan

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

idk why you're sad when Britney is a world wide super star, who has had a beyond successful comeback and Femme Fatale has sold over 1 million copies, while Tonight only sold 100k and Mr. Simple only sold 462k.

[luvey.livejournal.com]

The fanbases are powerful, but they (at least I know SuJu) has gathered more international fans- since they aren't as relevant in Korea. what also has worked is that, them alone not their company, really were the first KPop group to have used twitter as an amazing self marketing tool. Either way, to be anywhere on the list with the number of trends that were topics on twitter, it's a pretty good feat!

And go Big Bang!

[takteng-kamote.livejournal.com]

I agree. So may ppl are saying that they just have a dedicated fanbase, blah blah blah. But ppl also have to acknowledge how the boys themselves actively use twitter to engage their fans. I mean, you can be super popular but if you don't really know how to use twitter as a marketing tool, then you won't really be trending so much either.

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

lol

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

anw Suju beating Britney is no surprise. With every member's birthday (even for members that have left), there will be a trending hashtag (usually more than one). For every win on a music show, there's also a trending hashtag. For every concert held by Super Junior, there'll be a hashtag.

ofc they would beat Britney in the trending hashtags.

[mo-chan-tf.livejournal.com]

Restart is a "famous international artist"? really? REALLY? 8D if that's true, oh god, the world is coming to an end.

as for Suju and BB, IA with the OP's comment. this is more a result of their powerful fanbase than actually reaching international recognition or anything of the like.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Git git git it ugh, git git git git uehgghhhh. hah hah hah.

[k0dama.livejournal.com]

But in the US, no one knows either group.

[scubajr.livejournal.com]

Well, not so sure about them being known to a growing international audience... More like a really powerful fanbase. But YEAH
So true. Not hating or anything but neither group can ever be as famous (or infamous, however you see it), as Britney.

[kiwilovekiwi.livejournal.com]

Congrats guys. You definitely bigger than nugu Britney.

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

since when did selling over a million cds, being known internationally, having one of the best solo careers as a female singer, and selling out ALL of your concerts make you a nugu?

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

kpop fans, stop acting like this is an achievement. When people want to get something trending, they add hashtags to the end of every single tweet they have.

And big bang fans were voting more than once from every single website they possibly could for the EMAs.

So no, Super Junior and Big Bang are not better than Britney Spears. Not now and not ever.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Hello pretty lil' troll how are you today?

You do know we're agreein with you right? (most of us anyway) so no need to crash the party.
Britney is big, of course, but we're happy.
Come celebrate

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

Under the artists category, the boys were #4 behind world-famous artists Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and the Jonas Brothers, respectively.

the jonas brothers are still relevant? is the hipster still fake-dating women?

[taylorniw.livejournal.com]

"They have made themselves known to a growing international audience receiving global applause and praise, and they are drawing high attention as fans are anxious to observe their next big ventures overseas."

Will someone please tell Korea that Asia doesn't count as global?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Well it's all relative Japan is oversea and international from a korean pov ^^
But I agree

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

It was one set of voting per IP/person but BB fan found a way to go around that, it's not that difficult to use a proxy for instance.
They should have been nominated for bigger fanbase alongside Lady GaGa and else.
Anyhow anything decided by fans and not by a jury of pro ain't legit so...


I'm still glad they won.

[gardenintheair.livejournal.com]

hm ok.

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

queen boa

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

lol

[jiyong.livejournal.com]

so where's suju's award for ~beating her on twitter~

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

lol

[miki-831.livejournal.com]

lol in terms of cumulative fans they still can't touch britney

[runandtelldat.livejournal.com]

lol ok

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Lol, sales, concert etc being trumped by Twitter. At this rate Kpop fans and their writers will be regarded worse than Bieber and his fan of tween nightmares. People need to stop this nonsense. BB and Suju aren't even known outside of Kpop fandom. Britney has sold over 100 million albums in her career. SMH.