Girls’ Generation Wins Gold Medal in Pop Olympics

[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

Girls’ Generation won the gold medal for the first ever Pop Olympics on the music news portal, Popdust.

The Pop Olympics had representatives from America, Canada, Great Britain, and Korea compete against each other in a series of polls to see who was the world’s favorite pop star. In the first round starting from July 23rd, where each country elected a representative, Girls’ Generation received a staggering 4,278,684 votes (49.19%), edging out Big Bang, Wonder Girls, and 2NE1 to represent Korea.

Girls’ Generation went up against Taylor Swift from America, Justin Bieber from Canada, and The Wanted from Great Britain in the final competition of the Pop Olympics.

It was a clean sweep for Girls’ Generation, as they won each of the five categories in convincing fashion: Best Music Video for “MR. TAXI” (66%, 19,598 votes), Hottest Artist (66%, 36,154 votes), Best YouTube Moment for their fun talents at the New York fan meeting (76%, 33,437 Votes), Best Fans (65%, 17,413 Votes), and Best Song for “The Boys” (60%, 157,016 Votes). Voting was held from July 30th until August 6th with a new category being added every day. The Wanted was awarded the silver medal, and Taylor Swift was awarded the bronze.

Popdust was founded in February of 2011 by American music industry moguls including the co-founder of XM Satellite Radio, a top editor from “SPIN” and “Blender” magazines and Billboard, and a Senior Sales Executive from “Vanity Fair”, “Jane”, and “Maxim” magazines.

The turnout was huge in favor of Girls’ Generation for the first Pop Olympics, and they definitely made their presence known as the world’s premiere girl group. Check out Girls’ Generation’s Best YouTube Moment below. As Popdust says, “Seohyun is right: always wear your seatbelt.”

Source: Popdust, lilmzattitudex3@youtube.com, soshified
Written by: MoonSoshi9@soshified
Edited by: bhost909@soshified

Comments

[odd-fish-stick.livejournal.com]

"Best Fans" lol....

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

even though I wanted BB to win, I highly doubted that would be the case in the end lol

[odd-fish-stick.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they didn't. V.I.Ps are well know for their last minute poll flood attacks, lol. Seems Sones were prepared this time.

[dapo322.livejournal.com]

I feel like not until BB's scandals did VIPs really flood polls like for the MTV EMAs and that MTV italy fan award.

[iheartmango.livejournal.com]

lol VIPs are known to be lazy as well.

[stesabsea.livejournal.com]

More proof VIPs are just really lazy, I guess.

[kurochibimask.livejournal.com]

the hype was there in the beginning then it kinda died down. most of the vips that voted are the newer ones. guess they finally take the holy wisdom of us older ones and take that lazy pill

[epona.livejournal.com]

Western artists may have crazy fans, but they ain't got shit on k-pop fans when it comes to massive organised voting for completely useless titles.

[illustratedd.livejournal.com]

have you seen the 1D/JB stans though

[epona.livejournal.com]

yeah they're def crazy but big bang/super junior/snsd fans can outvote them on every stupid internet poll they find.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

that's becuz there is alot more of them lol.

[cuyler-morgan.livejournal.com]

You mean more of them that actually care, right?

[miracle-candle.livejournal.com]

a lot more as in crazy fans, right?

there's no freaking way snsd/super junior/big bang fans are much more than 1D/JB fans. i think snsd&sj&bb fans combined is equal to 1D/JB fandom each lol

[deeinanutshell.livejournal.com]

I think it's just that the kpop fandoms are more *~united~*

we still only have a few sources to get our info like akp,soompi, and the group's popular english fansite. So it's easier for us to gather. Plus we have more to prove in terms of group popularity.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

nah

they're just more desperate to get their oppars and uniars be seen in the spotlight. JB/ID win tons of other awards. Why should their fans care if they win some stupid poll?

[deerlike.livejournal.com]

lol mte

[vvvanilla.livejournal.com]

Congrats SNSD but it's hilarious how Kpop fans see Popdust as a legit major site they should waste time on to vote. Popdust is just using Kpop for hits jeez

[tees2mai.livejournal.com]

lol that gif. sooyoung is so perfect.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

"The Wanted from Great Britain"

Noone wants them.

Lol at The Boys being the best song.

[cettefemme90.livejournal.com]

OF ALL TIME

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Off with your head, Kissing You is ALL TIME!!

[sweetemerald513.livejournal.com]

Girls' Generation snatching wigs as usual.

[bear100.livejournal.com]

haha, congrats snsd.

[drfaith101.livejournal.com]

lol

[eishastan.livejournal.com]

lol i remember when SNSD was against One Direction, the numbers of votes compared to other competitions was huge... and well thas site is nothing special, but still congrats Soshi bbs and congrats Sones <3 we are so dedicated.

[itendtoflail.livejournal.com]

Taylor Swift and The Wanted repped US and Britain? Um... ok.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Oh that's nice.

[pumpkinskin.livejournal.com]

good. happy to see my twitter not being spammed with popdust links now

[cettefemme90.livejournal.com]

I particularly liked that Bieber came in dead last.

I feel that if SuJu had been shortlisted, the ELFs would have mobilised in the same way the SONEs did. It's not very convincing when the comments are full of 'come on SONE, we can do this!!!!' though.

Do you think they knew they were putting a Japanese video up for the Korean representative though (with Mr Taxi)?

Also surprised it was The Wanted rather than Wand Erection, but still. Well done SNSD and all that jazz.