Thursday, October 22, 2009

Wonder Girls on Billboard Hot 100?

The Korea Times has some big news for K-pop fans:
The Wonder Girls, one of South Korea's top girl groups, has been active in the United States and recently became the first Korean singers to enter the top 100 of the main Billboard chart.

``Nobody,'' which was unveiled in the United States in June, ranked 76th on the October Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Park Jin-young.

Yesterday Pop Seoul said, keeping up their tradition of never citing sources, that the song "Nobody" was ranked #107.

Looking up their "chart history" on Billboard.com gives you this, though:
This artist hasn't charted yet, but keep checking Billboard for the latest updates.

And you won't find the song on the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200, recent of the week of October 31st, though it does show up at #76 on this page. And only three months after the single's debut!

Anyway, you can catch up on other headlines via the Korean government's official Twitter page.

7 comments:

DSW said...

I noticed that earlier today, thanks to http://twitter.com/koreangov

Brian said...

w00t!!! first!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

DSW said...

I just meant to give a little credit to Koreangov. I just figured that seeing how we both found the same links at around the same time, maybe you'd seen it through their Twitter page and that they deserved something like a HT. Of course, if it's a coincidence, then fair enough.

Anyway, no offense intended.

Brian said...

Actually, I read about it this evening in the KT. I love that twitter page, though, so I'll throw a link in the post.

The "first" was a homage to every single other K-pop blog, where the first half dozen comments are "w00t! first!!!!," and the subsequent 200 are about h8rs.

DSW said...

Ah, I see. I tend to stay away from the K-pop blogs. I can deal with dumb posts on news etc etc, but generally the K-pop thing gets me too annoyed.

And yeah, I wish I knew who the Koreangov guy is... I would buy him a drink to say "Well done, mate!"

Speaking of which... I don't supose you know of a list of K-bloggers' Twitter pages? I tried looking on wefollow.com and such, but it was mostly just actual Korean bloggers - pro-Dokdo and such. I see that Chris (Backe) and a few others have Twitter pages, but there's no good reference like there is with actual blogs.

ZenKimchi said...

ROK Drop started a list a couple of months ago of K-Twitters.

DSW said...

I'll go look for it, thanks.