A few weeks into 2018 Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the top 100 charts for 2017. While the idol side of Korean music is still what is more popular internationally, going through all of the charts I found much more diversity than I’ve registered in previous years. Gaon Korean Album Chart Given the emphasis… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for May ten days ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart Plenty of excellent albums were released during May and many of the indie releases did show up on Gaon’s weekly Korean album chart. However, only… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for April last Thursday. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart While March was a good month for album sales, April didn’t deliver to the same extent. On the indie front, Busker Busker‘s 2012 album continued to… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for March a week ago. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart March appears to have been an overall very good month for album sales in Korea. Tearliner‘s soundtrack for tvN drama Cheese In The Trap (치즈… Continue reading
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published the charts for February today. Here’s a look at how the local indie music managed during the month. Gaon Korean Album Chart January proved to be a relatively good month for Korean indie albums sales, but the same unfortunately can’t be said of the Korean album chart for February… Continue reading
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
Korea’s national music chart Gaon published its 2015 half-year charts mid-July. A few indie acts showed up on the various weekly charts from January through June, but fewer made it all the way to the half-year listings. Gaon Korean Album Chart The Korean boy bands were doing very well in the album sales department from… Continue reading
I’ve had a remarkably good start to 2015. Not that anything in particular has happened–except for me clearing all available day and dream levels in Candy Crush Saga for the first time–just that I’ve been feeling remarkably good about it. I had an extremely relaxing holiday, sleeping for as long as I wanted to whenever… Continue reading
Today, February 28th, the winners of the 10th Korean Music Awards were announced: Album of the Year: 3rd Line Butterfly – Dreamtalk Song of the Year: Psy – “Gangnam Style” Artist of the Year: Psy Rookie of the Year: 404 Best Rock Album: Jeong Cha Sik – 격동하는 현재사 Best Rock Song: Jeong Cha Sik… Continue reading
After starting with the nominees for the overall KMA categories last week, this week we started to have a look at the nominees for the genre categories. So far we’ve covered Best Rock and Best Modern Rock , and now it’s time to look into the albums and songs nominated in the Best Pop category. Best… Continue reading