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Questions of fairness have been raised for the ‘2012 Melon Music Awards‘.
The award that raised the biggest question was the ‘Netizen Popularity Award‘. According to netizen votes, JYJ‘s Junsu ranked #1 with 185,519 votes for his ‘Nice Guy‘ OST, ”Love Is Like Snow“. However, the award went instead to B2ST with “Midnight“, who only received 147,310 votes.
Unlike the other awards in which netizen votes only count for 30% of the final result with 70% coming from music charts, netizen votes count double (60%) for the ‘Netizen Popularity Award’, so many fans are questioning the outcome. An industry representative who requested anonymity said, “It looks like it’s a similar situation to how Junsu’s group JYJ used to receive limitations by his previous label“.
The question has gotten even worse because the hosts of the awards had said, “The core of this award is fairness, popularity, and professionalism. It will be a fair award because it will be decided by the music chart rank and netizen votes.”
source: E2 News via allkpop
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Date: 2012-12-19 03:18 am (UTC)THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION!
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Date: 2012-12-19 08:34 am (UTC)Re: THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION!
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Date: 2012-12-19 03:57 am (UTC)Though the lawsuit might be legally over, from the way KBS. MBC and SBS answered, it's obvious JYJ are still being blocked. =.=
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Date: 2012-12-19 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-12-19 06:01 am (UTC)it's similar to the awards in HK...we have an expression for it, "分豬肉" (literally, divide the pork, aka giving out awards to whoever came regardless of whether they actually deserve it or not. everyone gets a piece of the pie)
that was basically the MAMAs in a nutshell.
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Date: 2012-12-19 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-19 09:25 am (UTC)but in general it's not even just the tvb annual tv show awards. all the music awards too. tvb has been like that for so many years now anyway. no progress at all from this channel. well, they don't really need to, i guess, since they're basically a monopoly.
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Date: 2012-12-19 04:40 pm (UTC)tbh I'm probably going to be boycotting all of his activities when I'm living in Korea, unless there's proof somewhere that the profits aren't split between his band members. And that makes me sad, because he's really, really good at what he does. :/
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Date: 2012-12-19 07:27 pm (UTC)So I don't think it has anything to do with C-Jes but more because of what happened between JYJ and SM - And it's not like the other big agencies wants Junsu (again, because of sm)
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Date: 2012-12-19 09:19 pm (UTC)It drug on for years and years and years, C-Jes's lawyer finally gave up on getting money out of SM, SM cheerfully settled.
tbh I think that SM is way less interested in screwing over JYJ and way more interested in making sure that it's understood that when you sign a contract with them, it's going to be honored.
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Date: 2012-12-19 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-19 09:16 pm (UTC)Which sucks, because I love Junsu as an artist, and I think Yoochun is a really good actor. But then, I also didn't pay to see X-Men: First Class because Fassy is a girlfriend beating asshole, and I don't eat Chik-fil-a, despite its advanced deliciousness, because their politics are awful.
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Date: 2012-12-19 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-19 09:23 pm (UTC)But it would make me super happy to be able to go to musicals/solo shows/buy SungKyunKwan Scandal on DVD with a clear conscience.
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Date: 2012-12-19 09:26 pm (UTC)Ailee $710k (21.1) 28% (8.4) = 29.5
Ulala Session $700k (20.8) 6% (1.8) = 22.6
Lee Hi $450k (13.4) 4.2% (4.2) = 17.6
b.a.p $420k (12.8) 47% (14.1) = 26.9
Juniel $75k (2.2) 5% (1.5) = 3.7
So if they were hellbent on giving out two rookie awards while not considering BuskerBusker for the category, b.a.p's win looks pretty legit, even if it obviously hinged on the online voting. Annnnd... their sales aren't that far behind Lee Hi's, in this scheme, even if it's 7 songs to 1. >.>;;; And I think MelOn might have felt they had to acknowledge an act that got nearly 50% of the vote somehow. Juniel was seriously overmatched for this category, though. I wonder why Spica wasn't in here? They had respectable sales for like 3 songs (not even including Lonely), so it would've been a little less embarrassing. ^^;;
(When it was 80:20 ulala session was a little more than b.a.p, so a legit win could still have been possible, it just would have been a squeaker....)
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Date: 2012-12-21 12:42 pm (UTC)Oh Korean music awards, you're always so confusing -___-