Korea’s national music chart Gaon has published its charts for 2015. It was the year of Hyukoh for sure, something clearly visible on all the charts. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean boy bands had a good year in 2015, according to Gaon’s Korean album chart for 2015. The top is all EXO, but strangely… Continue reading
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Gaon Charts September 2015
The monthly Gaon charts for November were published last week, but as I still haven’t gotten around to posting on the Korean indie entries on the various Gaon charts for September in spite of having all the tables prepared it’s time to catch up. Just like July and August September was looking good for hyukoh… Continue reading
Lozik Updates Joa Band’s Dear Polar Bear for eARTh
It’s only a few weeks left till this year’s Grand Mint Festival kicks off and as usual the festival has a focus on the environment through the eARTh campaign. This year’s campaign song was released as a digital single on September 27th, with Joa Band‘s GMF2010 song “북극곰아” updated through a remix by apls‘ DJ Lozik…. Continue reading
10cm to Return with New Album in October
Mega popular acoustic duo 10cm will release their second full-length album on October 10th. The news were announced yesterday with a teaser video for new album lead track “Fine Thank You And You?” shared exclusively on Naver. The full track and album info will be revealed on September 27th. As so often Naver has the videos… Continue reading
Busker Busker Reclaim the Top of Billboard’s K-Pop Hot 100
With the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for the week of July 7, Busker Busker have again claimed the top spot, this time with the lead track from their new mini album. The rest of the songs also entered the chart — this while songs from their first album, released three months ago, still linger… Continue reading
K-Indie on Gaon’s Digital Chart, 2012.06.17~2012.06.23
Barely had Busker Busker begun their exit from Gaon’s digital chart before they released their first album ‘closing’ mini album made an even bigger impact than the album before it. It debuted at the very top of Gaon’s album chart and the songs offered good competition to many other new releases on the digital track… Continue reading
10cm Enter Billboard’s K-Pop Hot 100 with Only U
The Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart for the week of June 30 has been out for a few days. After entering the chart last week, Verbal Jint and Kwon Jung Yeol of 10cm had to make way for f(x)‘s “Electric Show” and can now be found at position 7. As of this week Kwon… Continue reading
K-Indie on Gaon’s Digital Chart, 2012.06.10~2012.06.16
The new charts from Gaon are out. We find that Busker Busker moved down just one spot with their first full-length, now sitting at position 10. Gate Flowers’ first album has now fallen down to position 73 whereas the soundtrack of Shut Up! Flower Boy Band has climbed to position 79. New on the album… Continue reading
Busker Busker Joined by Guckkasten and Epitone Project on Billboard’s K-Pop Hot 100
In spite of several high profile releases last week, as Billboard published their Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for the week of June 23 Busker Busker still remained in the visible top half of the chart. “벚꽃 엔딩” had moved five spots down to position 30 whereas we may be seeing the last of “여수 밤바다”,… Continue reading
K-Indie on Gaon’s Digital Chart, 2012.06.03~2012.06.09
Last Thursday came the Gaon charts for the week prior and after seeing the number of indie related titles on the chart decreasing over the last few weeks it has once again been filled by all the titles from a new album — this time Epitone Project‘s second full-length album which also debuted on the… Continue reading