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[kimchi girl]

I saw this article in the times,

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/01/178_58414.html

And I'm having trouble believing/understanding it. So I'm looking for someone to explain this to me.

Here's the first passage:

[Radius]

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[Burndog]

I believe that the chart tracks the total number of singles sold over the entire year. I also have a suspicion that it includes 'junk singles' that are provided in giveaways. The Wondergirls were involved in a promotion with some clothing store (I'm not American so I don't remember the name of the store (sorry)) and were giving away copies with purchases made at the store.

I think that this may have bolstered their number of units shifted. Having said that, it was a very clever marketing ploy to have them tour with the Jonas Brothers...and I'm sure that it helped to shift a number of actual units as well.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

It's something to be proud of as a country. But it should be taken into consideration that when you go to the Billboard site (thanks for the link), there are about thirty or forty pulldown options for charts. So Nobody was #1 on the Year-End Hot Singles Chart but only #26 on the Reasonably Lukewarm Singles Chart and only #73 on the Boiling Hot Ringtone Download for Fuchsia-Teal Cellphones Singles Chart.

[oskinny1]

I really do not care if they make it big or not (other than my students annoyingly telling me that they are #1 in America constantly like they did earlier when it was erroneously published that they were) but who actually releases singles anymore?

I remember for my 13th birthday Ben Fellows bought me the "Love in an Elevator" single.

[itaewonguy]

Jyp is just spreading more BS and the journalists are buying it..
he knows he can say what ever he wants in the koreans will believe it..

like he is an original song writer and has connection in the US..
I rememeber he once said he co wrote the song.. "YEAH" with Usher and little john ,,,, YEAH RIGHT!! hahahahaa

[DeMayonnaise]

It's unbelievable how clueless Koreans are on popular music. K-pop is garbage, and I don't know anybody in the US who listens to the wondergirls. Then again, I'm not a 14 year old girl.

[out of context]

[kimchi girl]

I figured it had to be something like free giveaways or something similar.

I don't think they ever cracked the top 50 on the actual charts, and they never made it on to any top download chart. I would not be surprised if this was the result of almost ALL giveaway CDs.

I should state that I am not opposed to the group, I just thought the story was dubious, especially since I couldn't even find that chart on the billboard chart.

[Daniel_D]

shrugs they are touring with the Jonas Brothers. The young kids might like them, but by doing that... it pretty much stops 90% of the people over the age of 12 from liking them.

[janafromfrance]

really sad they have to be tricky. I mean the korean kids will think it was a number one hit in America, but in reality, it was not a hit. It seems like koreans love to play with stats like that, aways seeing if they can weasle something into putting them into the top of some random list that will prove to the world they are 'great'.

[redaxe]

[whiteshoes]

My 7-year-old American nieces love k-pop. They think the songs are "catchy" and the girls are pretty.

So the average Korean has the same sense of pop culture of a 7-year-old American girl. I'm not surprised.