Kara’s “Mister” Beats AKB48 As Most Popularly Sung Tune at Karaoke

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Kara has not only taken Japan by storm, but has taken over the hearts of Japanese Karaoke lovers.

Kara made an appearance on the hit Japanese show “Hey!Hey!Hey!” and was acknowledged as the most loved singer at the Karaoke. Kara’s hit song “Mister” was chosen as the most popularly sung tune at Karaoke after 1990.

Kara’s hit song “Mister” that garnered much popularity with its butt dance not only in Korea, but also Japan, beat out AKB48 and claimed the number one spot. Among the top ten songs, there were songs by popular Japanese artists SMAP and Arashi, as well.


Kara also did well on the most popular Karaoke song list compiled by the Japanese Karaoke system manufacture Daiichi Kosho at the end of last year. Kara’s “Mister” came in second, and Girls’ Generation’s “Gee” came in third.

This is a great achievement for Kara because an artist’s popularity at the Karaoke is an indication an artist’s overall popularity. Kara was able to increase their brand awareness with their easy to follow choreography and catchy melody.

In other news, Kara is continuing their “KARASIA” tour, stopping at five major Japanese cities, as well as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, for a total of six to seven countries.


Source: Soompi News

Comments

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

lalalalalalala

[a-perfect-shade.livejournal.com]

can anyone in japan comment on whether or not KARA Is actually as popular as reports make them out to be

[gyuri.livejournal.com]

can anyone in omona comment on whether or not your icons are actually as lq as they look

[a-perfect-shade.livejournal.com]

excuse u ms paint is a high quality production
y u so pressed tho

[purkin.livejournal.com]

anecdotal evidence but - friend visited Japan last summer and their faces were pretty much everywhere (billboards, advertisements). i can't say anything about the cumulative opinion of an average japanese citizen though. well i mean on the japanese tv shows all the japanese idols were obsessed with the butt dance so to some degree, probably. the hype was there.

[prismboy.livejournal.com]

can't say anything about in japan, but i have a lot of international japanese friends at uni and when i mention kpop the first group they mention is kara.

[eebaboya.livejournal.com]

i was in tokyo not too long ago and yes, Kara was everywhere.

[akivadarkmoon.livejournal.com]

I teach English in Japan and like 90% of my students are obsessed with them, but none of the Japanese teachers like them. Or maybe they just don't admit it, haha.

[shaunriley.livejournal.com]

When I taught Japanese students that came to Vancouver, they all knew who they were but preferred SNSD tbqh.

[funkaliciousss.livejournal.com]

they have good taste. i like what you teach your students. our future is in good hands with you shaping their minds. :D

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

My brother was in Japan february of last year, and he told me KARA were everywhere! He literally said "They are in your face everywhere you go"

[kiminikaeru.livejournal.com]

they definitely are

[vikihpnerd.livejournal.com]

HAHA! awesome. if only they can beat AKB48 on the oricon charts too...that would make history.

[jonghyunf.livejournal.com]

There's still a long way before that can happen. Aachan, the most popular member of AKB48 is graduating though, so who knows...

[caramelpuff.livejournal.com]

What?! Acchan is graduating soon?!?! Where have I been???

[funkaliciousss.livejournal.com]

she announced it like 2 weeks ago? it was all over tumblr! people were crying as if she's gonna die.

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

my friend said when she read that news sth like, "good bye acchan after a few years your career will surely turn into nonexistant."
but then again she really doesn't like japanese idols even though she is a japanese for only god knows why.
another quotation is, "what, kat-tun actually has fans?"
"where's the cute guys in kis-my-ft2?"

[funkaliciousss.livejournal.com]

Haha well, not all Japanese people have to like idols. It's not everyone's cup of tea. I love her reactions tho! Infact I love hearing what people who do not follow pop culture have to say about celebrities.

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

she is following pop culture tbh, she likes (loves actually but she is in denial because I called her sm lover, but she is biased) snsd and has less insults toward shinee, super junior and 2nin dbsk (she kinda hates the other three thanks to the fanwar while tbh I'm biased toward the three, and she doesn't like yg and think that I am extremely yg biased, kinda looks down on infinite because tbh the more you know about a group the weirder they're becoming and I'm an infinite stan, albeit still able to criticize them sometimes, idk how we stay friends lmao).
but she prefer mainstream musicians such as chatmonchy (she was so shocked when they're disbanding), greeeeen, ikimonogakari (but to be fair no one can dislike ikimonogakari), so yeah I guess she is less shallow than me lmao.
you might love her, she really can deliver insults with straight face.

[raviolikenshin.livejournal.com]

i only knew because her goodbye video was one of the most viewed videos on youtube a while back.

idc about akb48, but i'm sure her and her former backup singers will be fine.

[es2pido.livejournal.com]

I even sing this song in the shower myself.

DO NOT JUDGE ME.

[suspirando.livejournal.com]

LOL I do the same XD it's so addicting, once the beat is in there it's hard to get out.

[icierrrrrblue.livejournal.com]

i prefer akb48 songs, but you just can't shake your ass to heavy rotation, can you


w/e

[eliteseal.livejournal.com]

Talks about kara beating AKB48 in japan just makes me lol..

[epona.livejournal.com]

pretty sure I remember reading this at the end of last year?

[megamisama-ann.livejournal.com]

Please give us the list. It'd be perfect.

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

well mister is flawless so..

[raviolikenshin.livejournal.com]

i like to sing arashi songs at karaoke, just because my only friend who will go with me has all of the lyrics memorized. she doesn't know what she's saying tho.

we tried to sing sorry sorry once, and all we could sing was the sorry sorry part. so we just stick to english/the japanese songs she has memorized.

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

well it's about time, I hope AKB48 can have another real hit song.