Legendary 1st Generation idols choose the current groups

Legendary 1st Generation idols choose the current groups they would most want to join

The legendary 1st generation idols who paved the way for current idols, chose the idol groups from the current generation that they would most like to be a part of.
On the March 13th episode of ‘Radio Star‘, g.o.d‘s Danny Ahn, Sechskies‘ Kim Jae Duk, NRG‘s Chun Myung Hoon, and H.O.T‘s Lee Jae Won were asked to choose a current generation idol group they would like to join.

Danny Ahn chose INFINITE because he reasoned, “Their choreography is very definite. When INFINITE first debuted, I saw an article where they said they wanted to become singers like g.o.d. I think that’s why they remain more in my mind than the others.”

Lee Jae Won selected Super Junior and stated, “I want to be a part of Super Junior. To be honest, you can sort of ride the coattails of the other members. There are so many members, so you don’t have to be burdened.” At this, MC Yoon Jong Shin joked, “It won’t seem apparent even if you slack off a little.” Lee Jae Won agreed and continued, “Since there are a lot of unique members, you just have to ride on their backs.”

When Yoon Jong Shin said, “Are you trying to say that they’re a little lacking?“, he replied, “No, I’m just saying that there are a lot of members“. Kyuhyun jokingly admitted, “We are a little laid back“, to which Lee Jae Won said, “If I go in there and do the dance, I don’t think people will notice.” Kyuhyun joked again, “That might actually happen.”

Sechskies’ Kim Jae Duk chose Big Bang
, stating, “I want to join my favorite group Big Bang. They’re very good at their music, and they’re so cool on stage.” He had brought along Jang Soo Won as a special guest, who said, “I want to be part of Super Junior, too. There are a lot of units where you can make money from.” When MC Kim Kuk Jin joked, “There are also a lot of members you can borrow money from“, and he replied coolly, “You’re right.” Kyuhyun revealed that he was close with Kangin, and Jang Soo Won joked, “Kangin can leave and I’ll take his place. I don’t think I can go after him in terms of conversation skills, but I think I can fill his part on stage.“

Tall Boys KPOP

Following the last ‘Eye Candy: International Women’s Day‘ selected by a few of our staff members, our ‘Eye Candy‘ series continues with some of the tallest men in K-pop!
We had a tall-girls Eye Candy before, so now we give you the men. The males featured here are all at least 180cm (5’11″) and most of these guys are much taller than that – check them out below!

TVXQ'S Changmin

Super Junior‘s Siwon

SHINee‘s Minho

B.A.P‘s Zelo

Block B‘s Zico

MBLAQ‘s Thunder

INFINITE‘s Sungyeol

B1A4‘s CNU

NU’EST‘s Minhyun

CNBLUE‘s Jungshin

U-KISS‘ Eli

2AM‘s Seulong

Bonus: For all the Angels who were lovely enough to understand and forgive me for forgetting TEEN TOP‘s L.Joe in our ‘Handsome in Pink‘ Eye Candy, here’s a pink-haired L.Joe for you!

Idol Album Sales Percentage 2012

What percentage of 2012′s total album sales were by your favorite idols?

Super Junior have been the kings of physical album sales since 2010, but it’s hard to visualize that with just the numbers.
To help visualize the breakdown, a Korean netizen put together pie charts to see how each group did in sales. The pie charts were released in five categories with the first three charts breaking down the sales within the Big 3 companies: SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment. The last two charts broke down the overall percentage based on companies and individual artists.

 

SM Entertainment

The SM Entertainment chart showed that Super Junior had accounted for 34% of the entire company’s sales, which isn’t surprising since they had ranked at #1 for the entire year for the industry. TVXQ, SHINee, EXO-K, and Taetiseo followed. The most surprising was Girls’ Generation, who hadn’t released an album in 2012 but managed to sell 6% of the label’s sales anyway.

 

YG Entertainment

As expected, Big Bang dominated YG Entertainment sales in 2012, taking up 50% of the sales as a group. G-Dragon‘s solo sales put on an additional 26%, which was followed by Psy‘s 12%, and 2NE1‘s 4%.

 

JYP Entertainment

Even though 2PM didn’t release a studio album in 2012, they managed to dominate JYP Entertainment‘s sales anyway, with Wooyoung‘s solo album sales taking up 36% of the entire company sales. miss A had 19%, Wonder Girls had 17%, and another soloist Jo Kwon had 11%. 2PM also managed to sell 9% of the company sales with previous albums as well. Hopefully, with 2AM having already comeback and 2PM scheduled to comeback this year, we’ll see more of an impact from them this year!

 

Percentage of total album sales in 2012 by company

Since Super Junior and TVXQ took up the #1 and #3 spots overall for album sales in 2012, it’s not surprising that SM Entertainment artists accounted for 28% of the total album sales for 2012. They were followed by YG Entertainment, who had 15% of the sales.
Surprisingly, #3 was INFINITE‘s Woollim Entertainment with 6%, followed by B2ST, 4minute, and G.NA‘s Cube Entertainment with 5%. FNC Entertainment, with CNBLUE, F.T. Island, AOA, and Juniel followed. Another surprising number came up next with B1A4‘s WM Entertainment with 3%. JYJ‘s C-JeS Entertainment came up next, and then JYP Entertainment and Core Contents Media wrapped up the rest of the companies at 3%.

 

Percentage of total album sales in 2012 by artist

The artists were then ranked, Super Junior and Big Bang took up the first two spots with 10% and 8% respectively. Various Artists was third with 7% which combined all the OST sales. TVXQ came in fourth with 7% as well, followed by INFINITE, SHINee, G-Dragon, B1A4, JYJ’s Junsu, and Busker Busker.

How did your favorite artist(s) do?

Beautiful Voice of Korea

I got goosebumps when hearing her voice, actually i don't really like her. But i like her voice, it's beautiful.


Next, it's warm voice from our Kyuhyunnie. His voice is just so perfect (i mean the thickness of his voice) It fits every kind of songs.




It's Ali. Her voice is wonderful too. Specialy at this song, i cried. Hoya from Infinite was crying too.