On July 15, 2012, South Korean pop star Psy released Gangnam Style, a satirical tune that would go on to become what was once the biggest South Korean hit of all time. It captured the attention of the world, and became the first music video to pass 1 billion views on YouTube.
On July 17, South Korea’s Circle Chart, recently renamed from the Gaon Chart, revealed that 34.9 million copies of the top 400 physical albums had been sold in the country in the first half of 2022. That’s up 34.6 per cent from the same period in 2021 and more than three times the figure from the same period in 2018.
The second half of 2022 is gearing up to see similarly big numbers for K-pop acts. Sunday saw the news that Aespa’s new Girls album hit No. 3 on the US Billboard 200 chart, making the quartet one of only three K-pop girl groups, along with Blackpink and Twice, to have ever broken into the chart’s top 10, thanks to over 1.6 million albums sold ahead of the album’s release.Ten years after Gangnam Style, K-pop history is made almost monthly.
No. K pop is just like current day western music. Full of crap with low quality mediocre so-called artistes. Check out Lovebites and Band Maid from Japan. They are the real deal. Japan is full of seriously talented musicians, composers and singers.
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