SNSD’s & Intel’s Collab Song, “Visual Dreams (POP! POP!)”, Released!

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UPDATE: At the moment, “Visual Dreams (POP! POP!)” is ranked #1 on Bugs realtime chart ttp://bit.ly/ebpguQ.

+ Added romanizations & translated lyrics

+ Added higher quality single cover under cut & sites to purchase

SNSD and Intel collaboration song, “Visual Dreams (POP! POP!)”, is already out as well as the single’s cover. As for the MV, according to Soshified, it is set to release tomorrow, the 18th.

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Tyler Brûlé From UK’s ‘Financial Times’ Believes SNSD Are One Of Korea’s Potential Exports

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With the SNSD’s rapidly growing popularity worldwide, from Asia to South America to North America to Europe, the girls have gotten many foreigners’ interest. In particular, Tyler Brûlé from the UK (United Kingdom), whom is a well-known Canadian-born journalist, editor-in-chief of ‘Monocole’, entrepeneur, magazine publisher, and columnist, recently published about the girls on UK’s Financial Times.

On January 7th, his “The Secrets of My Brilliant Korea” column in UK’s ‘Financial Times’ talked about his trip to Seoul, Korea and his analysis of considerable Korean cultural exports. In addition, he included a list of ‘the top 10 Korean cultural contents having a very high possibility of success if they were to be exported out to foreign countries’ in the trendsetter column of the ‘Financial Times’ magazine.

The list was,
1. “A uniform mentality”
2. “The warm sounds of Winterplay and W & Whale”
3. “K is for cruising”

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SNSD Reported As The #1 Victim Of Music Piracy in 2010

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Although last year was a successful year for the girls as they brought in the most profits for SM Entertainment and came on top for almost everything including music charts, best artist of the year, the girl group blessed with the most awards, and most wanted product endorsers, ironically, SNSD also came in No.1 for artistes who incurred the highest losses due to piracy in 2010 according to an investigation.

Reportedly,

On January 14th, Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry of Korea and the Copyright Protection Center of Korea Copyright Association have released the analysis of statistics for media piracy in 2010.

According to the webboard chart for music category, SNSD topped the list with 35,354 points, followed by 2NE1

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SNSD Attended & Performed At “Daum Life On Awards 2010”

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[UPDATED WITH MORE CLOSE UP FANCAMS]
Earlier today, the girls attended the “Daum Life On Awards 2010”, organized by Daum Communications and held at the Grand Hall of El Tower in Yangjae-dong in Seocho-gu, Seoul. At the awards, they performed ‘Oh!’ and ‘Hoot’ and when they went home, they brought another award with them. Can you guess what award they brought home with them?

SNSD cut from KBS Entertainment Weekly

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Updated with the subbed version! Special thanks to BillyC for giving the video link.

More juicy scenes from the soon to be released music video of ‘Visual Dreams’!

The episode of tonight’s KBS Entertainment Weekly revealed small amounts of behind the scene footages of the ‘Visual Dreams’ MV and also contained a short interview with the girls.

During the interview the members chose the winners of three different awards amongst themselves: award for the honor student, member with the best appetite and member who surprises others with unexpected behaviour.

Check out the video to see who the winners were and also find out Sooyoung’s shocking IQ test results when she “used a smart phone [IQ] application” a while ago..

Spoil yourselves with their shiny outfits and cute moments:

Credits: Soshistruck @ soshified, omonafacettsubs @ youtube

Hoot Achieves Gold Status in Japan

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Whoever doubted SNSD could sell 100,00 copies of their Korean repackage album Hoot in Japan in less than a month is in trouble trouble trouble now!!

The chart reveals all…

translation from left to right: certification – gold; title – HOOT; artist – SNSD; release date – December 22nd, 2010; label – Universal Music

Congratulations to the girls for another spectacular achievement!! And if you think these results are amazing, just wait until they release their first full Japanese album 😀 In addition to gold the other certifications in the Western Album category include platinum and double platinum. If the success of Hoot is any indication, I foresee RIAJ having to come up with a new certification that goes beyond nine double platinum, just for SNSD. I think ‘Pastel Rose (Quartz)’ might do them justice. What do you guys think?

*Psst…Pastel Rose Pink is the official fan club color ^^

source: Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)

written by: plotbunny@snsdkorean

 

Wall Street Journal on SNSD’s Youtube Advantage

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On January 15th, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an online article titled “YouTube Helps South Korean Band Branch Out”, describing how SM Entertainment used Youtube to propel Girls’ Generation into the foreign market.

WGJ starts out mentioning SNSD‘s  first Japan showcase at Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo. The Journal offers two solutions for the successful foreign debut: a Japanese song and Youtube.

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