Korean pop the next big thing?
The five-piece Korean boy group, Big Bang, have shocked music industry experts by landing a top 10 album on US iTunes.
Korean pop – or K-Pop as it’s now commonly referred to – has become one of the hottest genres in music with articles about the growing phenomenon appearing in Billboard magazine and MTV online.
This has led to a number of K-Pop acts trying their luck in America – from Wonder Girls to BoA – but so far with little success.
That is until the release of Big Bang’s latest mini-album Tonight.
It becomes the first K-Pop album to reach the top 10 on US iTunes and is the only non-English language album in the top 100.
If the genre’s popularity keeps growing at this rate, it’s only a matter of time until the K-Pop wave reaches Australia.
Check out a 40 second preview of Tonight below.
[…] Mrkic, Mike (2011年2月26日). “Korean pop the next big thing?”. Star Observer. […]
baby, i’ve already been affected by the k-pop wave in australia. SUJU HWAITING!
If only they’d come conquer America. /daydream
[…] Koreansk pop (derav “K-Pop”, din sløvsekk) har begynt å få fot i så godt som hele østlige Asia, og USA har også faktisk såvidt fått øynene vidåpne (det var da svært til racial slur) for dette fenomenet. Big Bang ble nettopp første ikke-engelskspråklige artist/gruppe som kom inn på US Top 10 album chart. JYJ er en av de mer fremadstormende gruppene, og er tatt inn under Kanye Wests vinger. K-pop begynner nå å bli kjent hos mange, og folk i musikkpressen som følger litt med i timen har innsett at dette kanskje er det nye store. […]
[…] of that reception has been echoed stateside, where Tonight became the first K-pop album to ever break into the top 10 on the US iTunes Albums Chart and the only non-English language album in the top 100. Impressive work — and timely, too: […]
I already bought my copy on Australian iTunes!
K-Pop is incredible!