We just word today that BTS song Mic Drop went GOLD in the US today. PSY did this with Gangnam Style, but this is the first group that's done it if I understand right. Anyway. We think it's pretty cool and extremely exciting.
The other exciting BTS thing is that Target is now carrying their CDs in the actual stores! Like, you can just walk into a Target and buy a BTS CD... I can't even tell you how CRAZY this is! AH!!!
Jonghyun, the guy from SHINee who died in December, put out an album of the songs he was working on and finishing up before he left us. They are amazing. And he is winning all sort of awards for them now too. It's happy and sad at the same time.
Fanwars went ballistic this week when a US radio station asked if they should do a kpop hour every day. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but if I understand correctly, BTS fans rallied for the answer to be no because they felt no other bands should reap the benefits of their hard work getting BTS to be recognized by radio stations here. So then there was a big mess and the station backed out and said, ok fine we won't play kpop. So in the end everyone lost. As a multifandom fan, this made me so sad and for a moment, we joined in on the drama and said our piece or two, wishing that all the fandoms would love and support each other just as the groups themselves all do. Sigh.
We had great fun on the channel this week discovering Qpop and have received a LOT of love from fans in that country. So much fun!!!
(This is actually a guy from Kazakhstan singing in French on a Chinese show and being reacted to by us (American girls) on our Kpop channel. LOL... we got a kick out of that.)
Henry from Super Junior M had a new song come out this week:
The Olympics start next week in Korea and it's going to be very exciting to see who'll be singing at the Opening Ceremonies. Will you be watching? Many of the kpop groups got to run the torch these past few weeks also. It was fun to see all their pictures from the experience and see how much fun they had.
There's more but I'll stop there for this week/month!!
Crazy! So no radio stations here will be playing Kpop because the fans didn’t think it was fair for BTS? That doesn’t even make sense!!!
ReplyDeleteJenny: Well, hopefully will still pondering the idea. Just that one was like... oh, crap. NEVERMIND! BTS is getting played all overthe place now, but it would be nice if a some stations thought it would be fun to play more just for the heck of it, but BTS fans feel like it should be only BTS that gets played right now. Because they have been campaigning the stations like crazy for BTS and so they feel like only BTS should reap the benefits of that.
DeleteI thought that BTS selling their albums in US stores would make your post this week. :)
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