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The power of male fans placed SNSD in the 1st place.
According to a survery at a popular music website Monkey3(www.monkey3.co.kr), SNSD’s ‘Tell me your wish’ ranked 1st in numbers of album page view for the 4th week of June, and 52% of those viewers were male.
‘Tell me your wish’ released on the 22nd has gained momentum, and is currently ranked 1st place in real-time charts, total of 6 days.
Staff of Monkey3 states, “More males tend to view the album of ‘Tell me your wish’ than females. This indicates that SNSD has formidable force on the male fans. Although ‘Tell me your wish’ is loved by various male age groups between 10~50, it seems that the loyalty of ‘uncle fans’ between the age of 20~40 has had a serious impact. This shows a paradigm shift from 10~20 year old females, who used to control the entertainment business, to 20~40 males, who now have become formidable consumers as well.
In addition, mini album with the title song ‘Tell me your wish’ was released on the 29th in Monkey3(www.monkey3.co.kr), and ‘Etude’ is top 10, showing overall popularity to all their songs.
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Uhh 52% male… means 48% female. It irks me when people, in this case the original article writer, assume that the SNSD’s popularity comes merely from male fans. Come on, 52% male viewers means that there’s only 4% more males than the females! It’s *surprisingly* pretty balanced between male fans and female fans.
Oh, I don’t know that the infamous ‘uncle fans’ are those who between the age of 20-40. Wait. Is that means… I’ll be an ‘auntie fan’ by next year?! Sigh. I feel old. T_______T
SNSD Korean 
I’m turning 21 next month (22 in korean age). Am I an uncle fan too?
I’d say that 35+ would be uncle, but this is me and that’s Korea @_@
yea lol I found that funny too. the title made it sound like it’d be like 80% males or something o.0
Err, it’s a 4% difference 😛
But I agree on your point, the writer was making a fuss over a few percentage, and the way he/she put “uncle fans” for men between “20~40” is a lil bit obnoxious to me.
But nvm, then, I’m happy that Genie’s well received considering so many have tried to put them down with all those controversies.
oh lol yeah it’s 4%. oops yeah my bad.. mixed it with something I read ><
thanks for pointing that out! :]
Lol, u r welcome ^^ we all make small mistakes like that at times.
LOL. sorry crazy but that was funny!!! But I agree… wouldn’t it be more like SURPRISINGLY BALANCE? Jesus christ! It irked me too!
And T_T I’m an auntie fan now… I’m old… omg way to make me feel depressed…
@Anna: I know right?! In Korean age I’m already an auntie fan too :[
way to make us feel bad about our age… TT
I hate it when people assume that SNSD fans are only “uncle fans”.
@tAnk: haha I gues bad publicity is still a publicity after all. :]
Oh btw, it’s been said that within the 2 first days Genie has surpassed the record-breaking first week sales of Gee!
Gee was sold 23,000-ish in a week, which is a record for female-artist mini album sales (for overall they’re only below BB and DBSK) while Genie… despite all the controversies, has sold about almost 24,000 copies within TWO days. Amazing!
…and back then people said Gee was successful only because there’s “no competition”. lalalalala~
Thz for the info ^^ It’s really nice to know that.
And, haha, poor those STAND people, now they have to find a new reason for Genie’s success. That’s a lot of hard work.
rofl, i have to agree with the discussions that it really shows off soshi’s balance, but actually, at first i thought that the sex ratio would have skewed to more women because they lived longer.
But then after some research I found out that that was only the case amongst older people, not the younger generations or the overall sex ratio.
a TOTALLY unscientific approach:
I THINK, this is south korea’s sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:1.11 male(s)/female
15-64 years:1.04 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.68 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
So there’s actually more men than women. Also, if you convert that survey, you get a sex ratio of approx. 1.08
Looking at the sex ratios for under 15 and 15-64, it’s 1.11 and 1.04. if we wanted to get a range between like 13-45, that may be more realistic, but i can only guess it’s going to be around those numbers. Of course it’ll vary because South Korea’s population is getting older, meaning not as many births. I would guess the number to be closer to the 1.04 side than the 1.11.
That would most likely mean more men voted, but still, pretty close to the average sex ratio (2005 of course)
So it looks to me like the more impressive fact is that the girls get a good balance of fans…
Shoot….i feel like i can be a reporter in Korea now! (hahaha seriously…what kind of training do they go through over there???)
I’m gonna call some people who know some people. We’re gonna make something work.
-sLaVe
holy crap LOL nice one!
I went @@ after a bit T.T i shall reread again!
dudee people always asume that snsd have samchon fans and forget about the girl fans they have.
48% of their fans are girls so the ratios is quick balance and stuff.
lol and rizky, you are not an auntie fan, for women, your not an aunt til ur 30 =D for guys… they age faster ;D
Haha, in theory, you can become an uncle or aunt right before you reach your teens or even before you were born. I have a few nephew in the family tree and one of the two is actually older than me… Lol, the way families of us Asian run are complicated… XD
As in general, in places like Singapore for example, uncle and auntie are only used to call people who are really aged (from 65 onward or sth), it’s the way people show respect to them. And when I think of it, when they call “uncle fans”, they must be at least referring to those men in their 30s or older (mind you, but 30 still somehow sound young to me, LOL ^^) because most of SNSD members are in their 20s now.
Oh, c’mon, would you want a 20-year-old call you an uncle (or auntie) when you are 30 ? :p
Go pooltides! You have a lot of numbers, which I don’t like, but your words helped to make sense of things, haha.
As for this whole thing, how can you not expect more boys to like a girlband? I would expect more girls to like a boyband. I mean, duh. But, I don’t think there’s a huge difference, really. This is better than some bands where the percentage is totally different, haha.
The title of the article (I’m assuming that’s not Crazy51’s title) is misleading in a few ways.
1) As many have pointed out, the ratio is very small. However… if a high female ratio is typical for these groups, then even that small advantage for males is significant.
2) The article doesn’t tell how the numbers were compiled. Is it possible a viewer could be counted more than once? Than the entire survey is untrustworthy.
3) As for crediting the male viewers — Why credit either sex anyway? All the viewers were responsible. Each one. Individually.
4) etc.
hm…I don’t think 4% is such a big difference. but it is true that the girls’ music appeals to a lot of uncle fans.
Wow!!! Uncle also involved ^^
Nice,That`s Girl Generation Charm!!!!
❤ ❤ ❤ Yoona~