vip bangs: February 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Big Bang's "ALIVE" mini album "Perfect All-Kill" on charts

Big Bang has achieved a ‘Perfect All-Kill’ as soon as the group released all the songs in the 5th mini album, ‘ALIVE’. Currently on February 29th, Big Bang’s songs are dominating the charts on Melon, Bugs, Mnet, Olleh, Soribada, and others.

The songs Bad Boy, Love Dust, BLUE, Fantastic Baby, Aint No Fun, Wings, and Intro (ALIVE), are ranked 1 thru 7 practically owning the charts. It is especially notable to mention the track ‘Intro (ALIVE)’, as it is purely an intro as described and yet it is ranked at No.7.

As soon as Big Bang released all the tracks to their fifth mini-album ‘ALIVE‘, the songs immediately soared to the top of the online music charts on MelOn, Bugs, Mnet, Olleh Music, Soribada, and more.

Their tracks “BAD BOY“, “LOVE DUST“, “BLUE“, “FANTASTIC BABY“, “AIN’T NO FUN“, “WINGS“, and even the intro “ALIVE” seized high ranks on the charts, once again proving Big Bang’s soaring popularity.

“Blue” was first released a week earlier on February 22nd and has been maintaining a #1 rank on the charts ever since.

In addition to ‘Healing Camp’, ‘Running Man‘, and ‘Infinite Challenge‘, the boys of Big Bang will also be featuring on ‘You & I‘.

Big Bang will be performing on SBS ‘You & I’ with an unnamed internationally-acclaimed band that will also be accompanying them on their world tour.

The band Big Bang will be performing with is one which has collaborated with world-famous stars such as Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, Chris Brown, and more.

This will be the first time that the band will be performing on a stage in Korea, other than at the Big Bang concert to take place on March 2nd.

Immediately after the anticipated song 'Blue' was released on 22nd, it has already become a big topic on Youtube and music sites. Moreover, it is a comeback which is the biggest, the best and the company has spent most money on. We can also see a variety of colors in the album. The revealed song has already received a lot of love before Big Bang releases their mini album. We can feel the love even more if we look at the album from several perspectives.

#1 There are 6 title songs
Big Bang will come back with an unprecedented 6 title songs. In this album, the six title songs are BLUE, FANTASTIC BABY, AIN'T NO FUN, LOVE DUST, BAD BOY and Daesung's solo, WINGS.

Before Big Bang has made their comeback, each member was featured in CF teasers which were released one by one at the midnight of every day. From the short clips, we can see that each of them gives out different feelings and it might be an indicator that the album will show the varied colors of Big Bang.

Big Bang gave fans a big gift with the release of “Blue” last week and the single already achieved a perfect all-kill. Now, it’s time to leap for joy on leap day.

It’s been a long wait but the wait is finally over, as the boys of Big Bang have officially returned with the release of their 5th mini album, ‘ALIVE‘!

If one music video couldn’t satisfy your appetite then here’s a treat for you VIP’s as Big Bang has released another music video from their “ALIVE” album, titled “Bad Boy“.

Check out for the MV below:

allkpop interviews Big Bang on their ‘ALIVE’ comeback album

BIGBANG’s latest music video for “Blue” has earned the group two gold medals from YouTube. The online video site has a system of rewarding gold, silver, and bronze medals to videos uploaded on its site under three different categories that include, “All Time Most Popular, “Recently Most Popular,” and “Trending.” The medals are given based on total views and the number of “likes.”

BIGBANG’s “Blue” won gold medals in the “Recently Most Popular” and “Trending” categories, after it received over 8 million views in less than five days since its release on February 22. It resulted in the "Blue" MV showing up higher than Taylor Swift and Zac Efron's duet video.

A Regular All-Kill is when a song is #1 on the 7 major digital music sites' daily rankings. (Sites included Soribada, Dosirak, Melon, Mnet, Naver, Daum, Cyworld, Bugs except Monkey3).

Perfect All-Kill includes streaming status (i.e. mobile ringtones and caller ringtones) proving the success and popularity of the song further.

Big Bang’s comeback is causing a syndrome at home in Korea and abroad.

The announcement of Big Bang’s fifth mini album, “Alive,” has been attracting much attention all over the world. On February 22, the first single, “Blue,” was released and since has been doing very well on domestic charts as well as overseas through iTunes. The single’s music video has gained immense viewership on Youtube as well reaching over 6 million views in three days.

The single “Blue” was made available at the same time on digital music sites such as MelOn, Naver, and MNET. Within an hour the newly released track had achieved an “all-kill” on the domestic music sites. “Blue” has continued to be at the top spot since its release.

From Seoul Metropolitan Government's Official Facebook:

What do these celebrities have in common? SNSD, 2PM, Kim HyunJoong, DBSK, Lee Byung Hun, Wonder Girls, and Jay Park.

If you guess that they have all worked with the Seoul YouTube channel before, than you are correct! The Seoul Metropolitan Government is looking for another celebrity that will promote Seoul to the world. Here is a list of nominations:

YG Entertainment’s president, Yang Hyun Suk, shared his confidence and excitement over Big Bang’s fast approaching comeback.

Big Bang is scheduled to begin their promotions in early March. The group is to hold concerts on March 2 through 4 at Korea’s largest indoor venue, the Seoul Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium.

Big Bang’s highly-anticipated comeback to the music scene will be nothing short of big. There are plans set for the group to perform in 20 cities around the world. Their “Alive World Tour 2012” will take them to Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. The fact that they are planning on having a World Tour is adding to the public’s excitement.

Big Bang is having their comeback on March 11 in SBS’s Inkigayo.

A staff member of SBS’s variety shows said in an interview with TV Report, “Big Bang is planning to return on March 11 in Inkigayo. Yet, we’re not sure about the details such as how many songs they will be performing, but they’re certainly giving returning performance on March 11.”

Because Big Bang has experience of performing three of their new songs in Inkigayo before, the group is likely to have another unusual comeback performance this time.

Big Bang's "Blue" reaches 2 million+ views in 1 day

I can believe this but well, as they say, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A VIP ^^

The "1st Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards" took place at 7pm on February 22nd (KST) at the Blue Square Samsung Card Hall.

Big Bang became one of the the "Artists of the Year" taking the #1 spot for the April of 2011 with "LOVE SONG". Big Bang were not able to attend the Awards ceremony due to schedule issues so a representative of YG Entertainment received the award on their behalf.

The "Artists of the Year Award" is given to an artist(s) for each month and then again for each quarter for a total of 16 possible awards in the year with possible overlaps.

On/Offline Entertainment Media Star News and Gaon Chart co-sponsored "The 1st Gaon Chart K-pop Awards" and objectivity and fairness was the top priority. The award winners were determined based on Gaon’s aggregate data (digital music, album sales).

BIGBANG IS BACK @ MNET

MNET is currently holding a "BIGBANG IS BACK" event in connection to BIGBANG's comeback. For VIPs, they offer awesome prices to be given away. Check the link below for more details.

The first title song “Blue” of Big Bang’s five mini album ALIVE was finally unveiled on February 22 via major music-download sites such as Melon, Bugs, Olleh Music, M.net and Soribada. As soon as it was released, the song dominated the sites, showing off its undiminished popularity.

“Blue” is an emo dance song with lyrical melody and autobiographical lyrics, co-written by Teddy, a proven producer and G-Dragon. The song already attracted the focus of the attention as it was played as a background of a video image featuring interviews of Big Bang’s members. The video clip can be viewed via YG’s official blog and on TV networks. It was given favorable comments by fans: “The song makes us feel relaxed and comforted.”

BIGBANG - BLUE MV

BLUE LYRICS AND TRANSLATION

Hangul

겨울이 가고 봄이 찾아오죠

우린 시들고 그리움 속에 맘이 멍들었죠

I'm singing ma blue

파란 눈물에 파란 슬픔에 길들었죠

I'm singing ma blue

뜬 구름에 날려보낸 사랑 oh oh

같은 하늘 다른 곳 너와 나

위험 하니까 너에게서 떠나주는거야

님이란 글자에

비겁하지만 내가 못나 숨는거야

잔인한 이별은 사랑의 말로

그 어떤 말도 위로될 순 없다고

아마 내 인생의 마지막 말로

막이 내려오네요 이제

태어나서 널 만나고

죽을만큼 사랑하고

파랗게 물들어

시린 내맘

눈을 감아도

널 느낄 수 없잖아

겨울이가고

봄이 찾아오죠

우린 시들고 그리움 속에

맘이 멍들었죠

i'm singing ma blues

파란 눈물에

파란 슬픔에

I'm singing ma blue

뜬 구름에 날려보낸 사랑

심장이 멎은 것만 같아

전쟁이 끝나고

그곳에 얼어붙은 너와나

내 머릿속 세겨진 트라우마

이 눈물 마르면 촉촉히 기억하리 내사랑

지도 외롭지도 않아

행복은 다 혼자만

그 이상 복잡한 건 못참아

대수롭지도 아무렇지도 않아

별수 없는 방황

사람들은 왔다 간다

태어나서 널 만나고

죽을 만큼 사랑하고

파랗게 물들어

시린 내맘

너는 떠나도 난 그대롱 있잖아

겨울이 가고

봄이 찾아오죠

우린 시들고 그리움 속에

맘이 멍들었죠

오늘도 파란 저 달빛 아래에

나홀로 잠이 들겠죠

꿈 속에 떠난 그대를 찾아

헤매이며 이 노래를 불러요

I'm singing ma blue

파란 눈물에 파란 슬픔에

길들었죠

I'm singing ma blue

뜬 구름에 날려보낸 사랑

I'm singing ma blue

파란 눈물에 파란 슬픔에 길들였죠

I'm singing ma blue

뜬 구름에 날려보낸 사랑 oh oh

Pre-order sales for Big Bang's comeback album have surpassed the 250,000 mark. On February 21, sources close to YG Entertainment announced the news that the mini album, set to be released on February 29, had taken in over 250,000 pre-order sales. It has been 10 months since Big Bang has put out a new album. Their previous "special album" was released in April of last year. Excluding the album intro, all six songs on this new album are being promoted as title songs.

Soompi was invited to visit YG Entertainment to bring BIGBANG fans all over the world the written studio preview of “Blue.” After going through some of the toughest moments in the group’s five-year history last year, BIGBANG is back again with their comeback single, “Blue.” This song in itself defines “alive” in every sense of the word (“Alive” is the title of their new album). From the first line that says, “Winter is gone, spring is coming,” to the oxygen mask-themed teaser photos, “Blue” reminds you that BIGBANG is back and alive, stronger than ever.

"At some point in time, the word of KPOP increased dramatically in our office branches around the world. We confirmed KPOP's potential for growth, and during that time, we took note of Big Bang's talents. Big Bang has the greatest talents in order to be fit to be a global artist."

Global entertainment and concert production company Live Nation's Mats Brandt, President of Live Nation Far East, expressed big anticipation for their upcoming world tour with Big Bang. Recently visiting Korea for business, he discussed Big Bang as he met with OSEN at Seoul Shindorim Sheraton Hotel, emphasizing that they will apply the same process in planning Big Bang's world tour as they did with that of Lady Gaga.

Big Bang @ SBS Healing Camp (Full)

Video under the cut

It appears that the anticipation for Big Bang‘s comeback has helped YG Entertainment record its highest share price yet.

YG’s current stock price is 67,000 KRW per share. The prices of the shares have been constantly rising for the past three days. This is most likely due to the news of Big Bang’s comeback, which will be commence officially on February 29th. The group will be releasing a mini-album comprised of six songs in addition to their world tour, ‘Alive‘, which will be launched in March. Many investors are expecting a nice string of CFs to follow suit.

Big Bang TOP, “If the image of a ‘star’ becomes a hindrance to my acting, then I will throw that image away any time.”

Big Bang’s TOP recently showed an interest and attachment to the subject of “acting”.

Being able to freely manage the life of a musician and actor, TOP decked out the front cover of a special edition March issue of Cosmo Men Magazine. As TOP showed off the image of a very playful gentleman in his New York style suits, he also gave off the vibe of a very masculine charisma that not many other idol members can pull off.

Hello, this is YG Entertainment.

This is the official news guide for BIGBANG 5th MINI ALBUM, which will be releasing on February 29th, 2012.

BIGBANG is finally coming close to us with their “ALIVE” music in February, 2012.
The album consists of irresistible addiction, warm heart, and inextricable smoothing flow within its first intro track called “ALIVE” including Daesung’s/D-Lite’s solo track called “Wings.”

As reported earlier, G-Dragon and Daesung will appear on the episode of “Healing Camp” and talk about their respective “incidents” for the first time on a talk show.

More details were released about the episode. The Big Bang members gathered together at a “pig skin” restaurant. Big Bang stated, “When we were trainees we didn’t have money to buy meat so we would eat pig skin instead.”

Big Bang's comeback continues to prove its strength after YG Entertainment's stock shares increased. On February 17th, YG Entertainment's shares on the KOSDAQ market closed at 60,700 won, a 5.02% increase from its closing value the previous day.

Will Big Bang really be able to promote six songs simultaneously?

We previously reported that top Hallyu group Big Bang are planning a comeback with a total of six title tracks. This has caused industry insiders to wonder how they will implement such a demanding promotion plan. It also begs the question of how successful they will be with this kind of unprecedented project.

In the past, singers who have had more than one title track has experienced a narrowing down to one main song, depending on the response of the public. For instance, when a comebacks features two or three title songs, the public is quick to determine their favorite track, which causes an automatic shift in promotions towards the popular song.

Two days before, YG had revealed through its official blog that Blue and Bad Boy would be promoted as double titles. The day after, however, it added the title track markings to Love Dust and Fantastic Baby, and finally on February 17 it added No Fun and Wing to the title track list, making all of the songs, excluding the intro, title songs for the album.

The words ‘double title songs’ have often been used to mean that two songs would be promoted as the main single cuts from an album, but announcing that all of the tracks from a single album will be promoted as ‘title’ songs is a rare feat not only in Korea, but also overseas.

At the end of February, another popular idol group, Big Bang will make a come back to the music scene.

Big Bang will release their fifth mini album with a total of 7 songs on the 29th and it will officially mark their comeback. As one of the most popular idol groups at the moment, the comeback of Big Bang is extraordinarily meaningful to their fans.

Ever since their debut in 2006, Big Bang has enjoyed great fame in Korea and abroad but last year, some members had faced controversial issues which brought crisis to their team. While the members were facing this crisis, others had devoted themselves to making music. The songs which they composed during this period of time will also be included in the new mini album after careful selection.

With their comeback right ahead of them, TOP slightly mentioned Big Bang’s future moves and what they have in store for us within this next year.

During a recent interview with High Cut, TOP has stated, “We have a world tour ahead of us and because the schedules have already been filled up for the next year, we will be extremely busy.” He also hinted that, “We have many joyful and surprising news that we cannot reveal just yet.”

Big Bang's comeback countdown has officially started with the release of the teaser images of members T.O.P and Daesung.

YG Entertainment plans to bet everything on this comeback which is considered as a very important comeback marking the group's much awaited return since the controversies involving Daesung and G-Dragon.

What is Big Bang' strategy?

Big Bang is scheduled to hold a large scale campaign on television through TV commercials.

Big Bang to use TV Commercials for Comeback Promotions

YG Entertainment has announced that they will be heralding Big Bang‘s grand comeback through TV commercials!

Big Bang has been causing a stir by releasing individual concept photos of each members everyday. Beginning on February 17th, they will be airing TV ads to fulfill a promise made days ago by YG about how Big Bang’s comeback “will be YG Entertainment’s biggest promotion yet.”

TV ads are a huge promotion technique usually used by large corporations, and cost at least a few billion won to produce. Due to the staggering receipts, TV ads have never been thought of for actual use in a singer’s promotions.

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