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Psy an add another milestone to his growing list of accolades, as he has become a million seller in the United Kingdom!
According t Official Charts Company ales data, “‘Gangnam Style‘ has become not only the 129th track to sell over a million copies in the history of the UK’ Official Singles Chart, but also the first million seller by an Asian music star.” Although there have been other successful singers to break one million copies with Asian heritage, he is the first Asian star born, raised, and debuting from Asia to reach this milestone.
Martin Talbot, the managing director of the Official Charts Company commented, “This is an amazing achievement by Psy,” saying, “It is further confirmation of Gangnam Style as a true phenomenon – it is the first UK million-seller by an Asian music star, and a sign that K-Pop has truly arrived in the UK!”
In total, “Gangnam Style” has reached Number 1 in 27 countries. Although “Gangnam Style” only remained at Number 1 for a week in the UK, it spent another 17 weeks in the Top 10 and was the UK’s sixth biggest selling single of 2012. To date, “Gangnam Style” has spent 21 weeks on the Official Singles Chart Top 40.
Gangnam Style joins four other songs from 2012 to join the million seller list, the others bein Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know“ Carly Rae Jepsen‘s “Call Me Maybe“ James Arthur’s “Impossible“, an Fun.“s “We Are Young“.
Clic here or a full list of UK million seller
Source: Allkpop
Wow! Congrats to PSY!
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Date: 2013-02-10 11:52 pm (UTC)I still love how random the success of Gangnam Style was.
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:13 am (UTC)Um, with all due respect, no. A song was popular. Do y'all remember the way romanian music completely dominated the charts after that numa numa song? Oh, wait no. This a potential first step, but by NO MEANS endgame.
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:44 am (UTC)lol, a friend of mine is genuinely convinced kpop is like a massive underground movement cos she's talked about it with 2 people that aren't me.
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Date: 2013-02-11 05:33 pm (UTC)1d's bizarrely huge in the US tho.
I think the key to kitsch/kooky music making it in to the charts is if it can make it into the ayanapa/ibiza/magaluf (i have literally know idea where the cool kids go these days) club scene. Then it's a hop skip and a jump for even the most bizarre tune to get into the charts.
God we've had some shockers at number 1. Yes kpop, focus your efforts on europe. Germany and France have large music markets, and you buy most of your music from Norwegian producers anyway. Not to mention the UK is a country in which bob the builder, mr blobbie, the teletubbies and the fast food rockers have had number 1 hits. It's all in place. I just think the american market's too iconic for them to pass up, their loss!
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Date: 2013-02-11 11:34 pm (UTC)Idk, about america, but combined, europe has to be as big a market as japan. But it's more effort I guess. It's gradually sneaking it's way onto the kpop map tho. France gets a few minor-major events a year now. The UK gets thrown occasional bone too.
I didn't even know the sbs bbc thing, was a thing. what is it? they might have gone with a singaporean network instead if it's what I think it is.
old skool j-ross was fun. I would die for graham norton appearances. chatty man, too. negl, I love panel shows. The english in that situation would be a HELL of a challenge tho. Idk if a translator would really fly, and there's enough of a linguistic/cultural hurdle for americans to deal with, so that's probably a pipe dream. Sigh.
The only way people really listen to music offline is radio, so it'd have to be radio shows. That's doable right? idek who hosts the big shows anymore.
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:18 am (UTC)"a sign that K-Pop has truly arrived in the UK!" most people don't even know it's Korean much less care about Kpop so no.
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:22 am (UTC)but yeah no one cares about kpop outside of korea and this comm so
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Date: 2013-02-11 07:00 pm (UTC)i grant you i shouldn't have implied that they're not popular in other asian countries because they are
but asia =/= globally
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Date: 2013-02-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Something doesn't have to play on the radio or on TV to be big. But Kpop does play on TV in Southeast Asia, Australia, South America, and parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe... and at the Noodle Gourmet next to my house, lol, so by that measure, it's pretty big globally.
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Date: 2013-02-11 11:51 am (UTC)guess what your anecdote doesn't trump the truth
i grant you i shouldn't have implied that they're not popular in other asian countries because they are
but i'm sorry i know it's hard to take but selling out concerts to 95% asian audiences in non-asian countries does not equal worldwide popularity
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Date: 2013-02-11 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-11 11:57 am (UTC)but my point still stands so
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