May will be the month of the ‘war of the idols’ – comeback from 2PM, Super Junior, f(x) and WonderGirls

With the comeback of idols like 2PM, Super Junior and WonderGirls etc, May will be the month of the ‘war of the idols’.

2PM previously released a new single ‘Don’t Stop Can’t Stop’ on 19th April and the title song ‘Without U’ is already up on the #1 spots on various music progaram and charts. They will join the ‘war of the idols’ in May with their promotions for the single.

And with So Nyeo Shi Dae ending their 4-month promotions with ‘Oh!’ and ‘Run Devil Run’, SM is set to have its 2 idol groups Super Junior and f(x) comeback in May. f(x) will have their comeback after 6 months with their 1st minialbum ‘NU ABO’. The song and teaser were revealed recently, and it had gone up to the #1 spots on various real time charts.

[Updates] 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards – SNSD wins DaeSang!

The 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards took place on 3rd February in Seoul Olympic Park Fencing Stadium.

Go under the cut for the winners list.

Kim JongKook is back with ‘Don’t Be Nice To Me’

Kim JongKook‘s comeback 6th album title song ‘Don’t Be Nice To Me’ has been revealed on music sites.

After 1 year and 3 months since his 5th album, Kim JongKook is back with the new song and its MV on 15th January. The MV features fellow Family Outing member Park YeJin.

The song is a production of Park SeonJoo who also did Bobby Kim‘s ‘The thing called love’.

[Info] Esplanade presents ‘Korean Drama Favourites – The Music Of Joon-Sung Oh’

Singaporean Kpoppers and Korean drama lovers rejoice!

Singapore Esplanade will be presenting a performance entitled ‘Korean Drama Favourites – The Music of Joon-Sung Oh‘ coming 1st and 2nd February 2010.

Together with some of the world famous musicians who will be performing hit OSTs from various Korean dramas are also famous Kpop singers like Bobby Kim, SHINee and Mario.

Go under the cut to find out more!

Upcoming 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards nominee list revealed!

The nominee list for upcoming 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards 2010 has been revealed!

Said to be one of the Korean popular music award ceremonies established by Sports Seoul in the 1990s which contributed to many other award ceremonies later on, the 19th Seoul Music Awards awarding the best singers of year 2009 will be held on 3rd February 2010.

Nominee list under the cut.

WheeSung, Bobby Kim and Kim BumSoo cover 2NE1’s ‘I Don’t Care’

3 of the best vocals in Kpop realm WheeSung, Bobby Kim and Kim BumSoo covered 2NE1‘s hit song ‘I Don’t Care’ on a radio show on 3rd December.

They not only did the song in their own rendition, they also changed the lyrics to the perspective of a guy singing to his girlfriend. Love it!

Also check out WheeSung‘s live performance of ‘So Hot’ and ‘LA chA tA’ on the show under the cut.

Mnet unveils MAMA – Full nominee list revealed!

From 2009, Mnet annual music event MKMF will be changed to Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA).

A live program took place on 23rd October in Seoul Tower and the idea of the new music awards ceremony was revealed. Previously on 16th October, the note “This year there will be no MKMF’ was posted on Mnet’s official homepage, the change of the music ceremony was to give it a new transformation as mentioned by Mnet.

Go under the cut for the nominee list and more details!

A look into 1st half of year 2009 – Girls Generation and Super Junior reigned

Even though the meaning to album sales has began to take a smaller part to the releasing a new album, but in anyway it is still important to a singer in terms of the value of the music and the singer’s success.

So who has the best album sales in the Kpop realm for the 1st half of year 2009? We follow Hanteo chart to find the results tabulated as till 30th May.

And group Super Junior is said to have the highest album sales, with group So Nyeo Shi Dae following behind at #2. We have our Kings and Queens for the 1st half of 2009!