Your Daily Dose of Big Bang

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

Idol group Big Bang has dominated the K-Pop scene for the first half of 2012, both online and off.

Big Bang is currently in first place with the most albums sold within the first half of the year. Their mini-album ‘Alive‘ and their special edition album ‘Still Alive‘ have combined to surpass 400,000 units in sales. Their force was strong on the music charts as well. Title songs “Fantastic Baby” and “Monster” along with many of the subtracks on the albums ranked highly on the charts. The boys who boast a wide and solid fan base in Korea have kicked off their World Tour, and are also slowly dominating the market overseas. Because the boys made a comeback after members Daesung and G-Dragon went through some difficult and trying times, this album is that much more meaningful for both the group members and the fans alike.


At this rate, it looks like Big Bang’s album sales will be able to easily surpass the half million mark. ‘Alive’ released last February (280,000 copies), and ‘Still Alive’ released earlier this month (120,000 copies) sold over 400,000 copies as of the first week of June. In second place was Girls’ Generation‘s sub-unit TaeTiSeo and JYJ‘s Kim Junsu (XIA) who both sold 120,000 copies. That’s a difference of nearly 300,000 copies between first and second place, so Big Bang is comfortably leading the race. An insider from album distribution group Korean Music Partners remarked, “420,000 albums have been shipped, and nearly all the albums have been sold in the markets. Without a doubt, Big Bang is in first place when it comes to most albums sold within the first half of the year. They will easily surpass 500,000 copies.”

“Super Junior will be releasing an album around July,” the rep continued. “It looks like the two groups will be battling it out for most album sales this year.”

Big Bang is the only artist this year to have all the songs on their albums rank high on music charts. Their agency YG Entertainment remarked, “All the songs on the album were dubbed title tracks. We did not focus on promoting just one song, rather, we wanted to introduce all of the songs. That’s how much confidence we had in the quality of the album. The hard work seems to have paid off, reaping positive results when it came to sales numbers and success on the music charts.”

The boys received an explosive response from overseas as well. As of June 15th, the MV for their song “Fantastic Baby” recorded 27,600,000 views on YouTube, while the MV for ”Blue” received more than 23 million views. They are both in first place for the highest viewed K-Pop music videos released this year. What’s more, Big Bang’s albums and merchandise are now being sold to all corners of the world on newly opened YGStore on E-bay. According to E-bay Korea, over $12,000 worth of merchandise was sold in a single day, breaking a new-seller record in the past two years.

Responding to the fans’ response, the boys have kicked off their world tour. Their tour was produced by Live Nation, the experts behind tours for world-famous pop stars such as Madonna and Lady Gaga. Live Nation recently opened up a branch in Korea for the very firs time, and Big Bang is the first Korean artists they have worked with. Live Nation’s Alan Ridgeway remarked, “I am glad to be able to bring Big Bang to K-Pop fans all over the world. It will contribute to further spreading K-Pop all over the world.”

Big Bang has just completed shows in Osaka and Yokohama, and are headed to Saitama and Fukuoka next. Once their Japan tour comes to an end, the boys will be traveling to China, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and more.

Source: AKP & IlganSports via Nate

so proud of them

Comments

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

XD that gif
I think I reblog it at least 5 times

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

ikr it's precious

but why is Tae taller than GD an Top?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

He's standing while TOP and GD are seated
And his hair is magic, obviously

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

he thinks his childhood hair iz magic u mean

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

ssssssh no one told him about santa yet, he still believes in all of that

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

ur right we don't want 2 destroy his hopes n dreams

[xalexandriam.livejournal.com]

that gif is actually the cutest, even with the awful hair. :3 the sunglasses on the yb one and the industrial for the seungri one are perfect.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

YG is balling this year with these sales, 2NE1's album sales (their last Korean minialbum's sales were hurt by that song release strategy, so this one should sell a lot better), GD's album sales, and concert revenue.

[uledy.livejournal.com]

that gif makes me so happy. VI bear even has that horrid piercing. so cute!

[xxmannequin.livejournal.com]

that gif is the cutest thing ever <3

[laceandskin.livejournal.com]

I can't stop watching that gif. It's so cute.

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

why is it that ppl dont edit their posts into paragraphs? i scroll by almost every article that's posted like this, especially if nothing is bolded, omg.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

cause the layout formats it like that sweetheart

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

that's obvs not why, if it was, my posts and everyone else's posts would come out like that then. and they dont..

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

idk but it keeps happening to me

I try to format it into paragraphs but it doesn't do it for me

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

do you copy & paste it into the rich text box? bc that's why it probably doesn't work. if you post it in the html view though, it gets broken into paragraphs like how it already is on akp

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

no, plain text

but every single time I break it down into paragraphs it still connects everything

I'll try it again brb

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

no i meant like u know when u go post u go to the rich box automatically? try switching to the html tab & just ctrl+v there and it should be broken down into paragraphs by itself, and also on the rich view it should look like normal too w/o you having to break it manually.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

yay it worked

thank you kindly

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

np! thnx for fixing it. btw i didn't mean to point u out only, it's jst really hard to focus when everything is lumped together. hopefully other posters figure it out too.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I usually have a hard time reading with everything lumped together as well.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

and why did you say "ppl" when you were talking about me?

It's okay to say it to me personally u know

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

lol i dont have a problem saying it to u personally tho? but ur not the only one who does it, that's why i said ppl. a lot of other posters/ppl on omona do it, not just you.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

lol but didn't you say "everyone else's" and "they dont.." earlier(?)

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

yes a lot of ppl =/= everyone though? because not "everyone's" posts look like this. so its not the layouts fault.
http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/9389461.html
http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/9388855.html

but there is more than 1 person that the posts come out w/o paragraphs, ur not the only one doing it.
http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/9383910.html
http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/9384029.html

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

well since I figured it out (thanks to you) it will never happen again ^^

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

That gif is too adorable. YG just take my money. I already have my hotel and flight booked for Anaheim and now I need to set up New Jersey.

Sidenote: I'm glad SuJu is at least acknowledged to be a force to be reckoned with in the music industry via ELFS even if SM doesn't care about them

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

it's kind sad how SM thinks that they can't bring in the money anymore. their fanbase is still dedicated. an they're still popular, even with less members now

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Why do you think SM doesn't care about them?

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

I think their music and MVs speak for themselves...

[simplyobessed.livejournal.com]

lol that gif is damn adorable and hilarious at the same time. xD

[daifukuu.livejournal.com]

that bear gif is pure love :D

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

I hate the business of repackages and am majorly pissed at YG for this one. Shouldn't have bought Alive when I could've bought Still Alive. :|

That being said, I definitely felt like a few of the songs this time were GD solo songs...namely stuff like Ego and to a lesser extent, Monster (though Monster showcased some of the BEST Daesung vocals I've ever heard...like buttah to ma ears). When is he gonna have another solo album?? It's been 3 years!

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

In time for his birthday again, how nice :') Yeah I felt bad for Taeyang. If I were him I would NOT want to be the guy who sang after Daesung during that song lol.

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until GD's solo, hopefully there will be no collaborations with Dara this time.

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

LOL agreed!

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

The gif is providing me with hours of enjoyment. Daesung's eyes, GD possibly smirking, etc.

Today I'm mulling over what they said on APOPA about Alive not doing so well and that being a sign that they need to take an extended break to do their own things. I agree with fans that it's high time for a Daesung solo effort and for TOP to do something too, but I find hiatuses to be so precarious.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

there shouldn't be any doubt that bigbang are huge sellers. but i guess this time, they'll reach the 500k mark. but anyway, bigbang is still one of the best digital sellers especially since most boy groups don't do well.

“Super Junior will be releasing an album around July,” the rep continued. “It looks like the two groups will be battling it out for most album sales this year.”

i read that there're going to be individual versions of the album again. there's going to be at least 11 copies that hardcore elfs have to buy. and there's probably a rumor that'll go around that 6jib might be their last album. no matter the quality, suju's 6jib would do well in album sales.

[ayumikoshiro.livejournal.com]

I hope this doesn't encourage YG to keep repackaging I can't frickin afford that.

[punkylana.livejournal.com]

I love that gif

[sirhin.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I live by Harris.

I've also heard of those "massage" parlors but I didn't know there were some HERE. O_O You learn something new every day...

[10135.livejournal.com]

What a cute GIF :3

[pon-pon-pink.livejournal.com]

as much as i'm proud to have contributed to this, i want my fuckin money back! My alive album is now rusty as well :/ fuck you yg!!

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

LOL DAT GIF! XDD

[harisukaori.livejournal.com]

That gif is precious *__*

Great job Big Bang. Amazing sales.

But since I'm a hardcore ELF the most important sentence in this article was this one:
“Super Junior will be releasing an album around July,” the rep continued. “It looks like the two groups will be battling it out for most album sales this year.”
Go SUJU!

[forevrseptember.livejournal.com]

that gif *w* so cute