Thursday, February 10, 2011

G-Dragon and T.O.P album rank #3 while Seungri VVIP album rank #5 on Hanteo

Posted on Hanteo 2011 Album Award, album sale dated from 1/1/11 till 9/2/2011:

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Taeyang "Move" and "Take It Slow" from SOLAR Concert DVD




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VIPs flooded T-ara Hyomin's mini homepage with malicious and dangerous comments


T-ara member Hyomin is being bombarded with malicious hate comments from Big Bang’s fanclub ‘VIP’ even after confronting them with politeness. Her current state of mind was written in her diary and said, “Should I… disappear..?”

On the 8th, Hyomin left a post through her Cyworld, “Should I disappear?”

Netizens began speculating about what she said and the reasons behind it.

This is similar to a situation before where she posted short messages without explanations, and it has raised concern amongst netizens. Hyomin has survived malicious comments back to back and fans think that is the reason for the post.

On SBS ‘King of Idols’, Hyomin was coupled with Seungri in a water course game and said to him, “This guy’s weird” and “He’s too short,” even though their relationship wasn’t significant enough for her to say those remarks.

Shortly after the broadcast, the comments she made angered some Big Bang fans. Because Big Bang is a senior group to Hyomin and T-ara, she should of spoke with more politeness.

Hyomin was born in 1989, making her one year older, but Big Bang debuted three years before T-ara. It hasn’t been confirmed if Hyomin had a friendship with Seungri before appearing on TV with him.

After angering fans, Hyomin said via Twitter, “We both agreed to do it for fun, but if it was uncomfortable for you to watch, I’m sorry. I hope that you don’t think badly because of this,” she said apologizing.

But even after this, Hyomin’s Cyworld is full of hate and profanity including threats of violence. Distinguishing between the broadcast and the real reality is when you need to have a mature perspective.


Note: Lets be mature when commenting about this VIPs. 

Source: Nate via messedup @ 6THEORY MEDIA 
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Seungri imitates Se7en, Taeyang, Top, G-Dragon, VIPs and IU from Mnet TOOK



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Big Bang FILA Photo Shoot on Mnet Wide HOT



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Taeyang "I Need A Girl" from SOLAR Concert DVD



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GD&TOP #5 on Gaon's top selling albums for 2010

Note: The album was only released December 24 so the album sales counted was only for the first 8 days (Dec 24-31).

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Big Bang and SNSD are the #1 stars fans want to spend Valentine's Day

Popular idol groups Big Bang and Girls Generation have been voted as the most wanted stars fans want to be with this year for Valentine’s Day.

A poll held on IKaraoke, a music portal site (www.ikaraoke.kr), took place from January 27th to February 6th, and asked fans who they want to spend their Valentine’s Day with. Girls Generation and Big Bang were chosen respectively in the female and male stars section.

Girls Generation took first place with 41% of the votes and IU took second place with 32% of the votes. Big Bang as well took the #1 spot, but in the male category. Big Bang won with 27% of the votes, followed closely by 2pm at 18%. The last time Big Bang got #1 was back in 2009, because last year the title went to 2AM’s Jo Kwon. G-Dragon & TOP are currently promoting their duo album, and Seungri is promoting as well with his new mini album. Big Bang is currently in Las Vegas filming a music video for their highly-anticipated comeback album set to be released on February 24th.

Another section of the poll, “The most enviable drama couple” went to Hyunbin and Ha Ji Won from “Secret Garden” and at second place was Yoon Sang Hyun and Kim Sa Rang from Secret Garden as well.

Source: Naver and iBigBang via Koreaboo
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Big Bang earns 3.6 billion won a year through game character sales... T.O.P is on top


In July of 2009, Big Bang were released as game characters for online FPS game "Sudden Attack". Gamers are able to control game characters similar to stars and listen to around 80 sound effects recorded by the stars themselves.

According to the developers of "Sudden Attack", Game High, Big Bang sold 1.03 million characters (including random boxes) between July and December of 2009. The characters cost from 1,300 to 18,900 won.

The fact that collecting all the Big Bang characters caused the characters of gamers to become stronger also affected the sales. When all the characters were collected, players would gain a special primary weapon and gain unlimited grenades.

The sales rankings were in the order of TOP (38%), Daesung (27%), Taeyang (22%), Seungri (13%). G-Dragon was not counted in the rankings as his character was not on sale as a single item.

According to Game High, Big Bang characters earned 300 million won a month on average. Representatives stated that they started with star marketing in 2008 with singer Rain, and the revenue generated in the first two weeks since release was in the order of Big Bang, 2NE1, and Rain.

Big Bang is estimated to have earned around 3.6 billion won (3.25 million USD) in one year from "Sudden Attack". The revenue from game characters based on stars is usually split 7:3 or 8:2 between the game providers and the entertainment companies, so YG Entertainment could have earned around 1.1 billion won from game character sales.

When taking into account that the revenue from concerts earned by Big Bang's company, YG Entertainment, in 2009 was 4.9 billion won, the revenue earned from games is a significant amount. According to the game research company, Game Tricks, "Sudden Attack" holds over 10% of the time market share in PC rooms and is one of the top games in Korea. Because of this, it's estimated that Big Bang is the celebrity to have earned the most from game characters.

Given that stars are paid around 200~300 million won for a 6 month contract involving CF shooting and modeling for games, it's certain that Big Bang has hit the jackpot with "Sudden Attack". Especially TOP has managed to earn both popularity and money thanks to his intense eyes and strong character in the game.

Source: MT via Flibbertigibbet @ 6theory forums

Seungri talk cut on KJE Chocolate


Source: TheYGCrew