Gaon’s 2015 Half-Year Charts

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 →

Show Me The Money Episode 8 : Final

A couple of weeks late we continued our commentary series on Mnet’s hip-hop variety Show Me The Money with the semi-final last week. After catching up on the still active commentary series, here’s what we had do say about the final episode which aired on August 10th where four teams fought for the money. In addition to myself the… Continue reading →