[????=??? ??] BIGBANG “MADE” world tour’s concerts to be held in the States were named as “Must-see fall 2015 concerts”.

On the 25 this month (local time), American FUSE TV posted an article titled “27 Must-See Fall 2015 Concerts” which included BIGBANG “MADE” world tour’s concerts to be held in the States as one of them. Other than BIGBANG concerts, concert of world’s top singers including Janet Jackson, Madonna, Ricky Martin, and R. Kelly were included in the list, drawing big attention from music fans.

FUST TV shed spotlight on BIGBANG focusing on their  mega-scale second America tour to be held in the birthplace of pop music and the team’s popularity in the country, saying, “…and their new Made tour will mark their second North American arena tour—a first for any Korean act—…” FUST TV went on to express its expectations for the BIGBANG tour, stating, “Not only will the band have a whole new album’s worth of material to bring fans (including recent standout singles like “Loser,” “Bang Bang Bang” and “Sober”), but their signature spectacle show looks to be even more explosive than their 2012 Alive Tour—which will be tough to beat given what we saw at that one.”

BIGBANG’s second tour in the States is held three years after “ALIVE GALAXY TOUR” held in 2012 in LA and New Jersey. Beginning from Las Vegas concert , BIGBANG will meet American fans in five concerts in four cities including Los Angeles , Anaheim  and Newark, New Jersey,  and 11. 

The American tour of BIGBANG’s “ALIVE GALAXY” held in November, 2012, was listed in New York Times’ “2012 Best Concerts” selected by New York Times in December that year, to prove worldwide popularity of the team’s performance.

Meanwhile, as BIGBANG has now successfully wrapped up their concert in Hangzhou, China, drawing 21,000 fans, they will continue with the China tour to have a concert in Changsa on the 28 and in Chongqing on the 30. Then, the team will continue with the tour to meet 1.4 million fans in 70 concerts in 15 countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, etc.

After the end of the China tour, BIGBANG will come back to Korea to work on their full-length album.

2015. 8. 26.
Source: http://www.yg-life.com/archives/54710?lang=en

[?????=??? ??] In the evening of August 13, the “2015 The Infinite Challenge Yeongdong Expressway Music Festival” was held at the ski-jumping tower of Alpensia Resort in Daegwallyeong-myeon, PyeongChang-gun, Gangwon Province.

Even though everyone expected it, the big influence of “The Infinite Challenge”‘s music festival is always surprising. The songs of the music festival are hitting music charts hard.

The songs of MBC’s “2015 Infinite Challenge Yeongdong Expressway Music Festival” released on the 22 are taking top places on charts for five days in a row. On the real-time chart of Korea’s biggest music-streaming website Melon, IU and Park Myung Soo’s “Leon” is in the No.1 place.

Kwanghee-TAEYANG-GDRAGON’s “Oh My God”, Haha-Zion.T’s “Sponsor”, Jung HyungDon-Hyuk Oh’s “Beautiful Barn”, Yoo Jae Suk-Park Jin Young’s “I’m So Sexy”, and Jung Joon Ha-Yoon Sang’s “My Life” are closely following “Leon”. Music fans are now focusing on how long these songs will stay in top places on charts, rather than on what ranking they take.

The interesting thing here is the fact that all the top ten songs on the chart except for the songs of the music festival are YG songs. For Hwangtaeji’s “Oh My God” which is in the second place, BIGBANG’s G-DRAGON and TAEYANG worked with Kwanghee, and the sixth place on the chart is taken by “GUP” (Fear) sung by SONG MIN HO and featured by TAEYANG. “Oppacha” in the eighth place is a song collaborated by YG’s JINUSEAN and TABLO, while BIGBANG’s “LET’S NOT FALL IN LOVE” in the tenth place is recording a long run.  In this week avoided by all the other music labels because of the attack from the songs of “The Infinite Challenge”, YG songs are sweeping the chart.

The reason why YG songs are showing formidable power on music charts which is mainly dominated by songs aired in TV shows such as “The Infinite Challenge” and “Show Me the Money 4? is because YG artists took part in those TV shows. YG artists mainly focus on their music, but every “hot” TV show has an YG artist. G-DRAGON also said that he regards himself as a member of the music festival of “The Infinite Challenge”.

YG seems to go its own way, but it knows how to follow and make use of the trend when necessary. That is the reason why YG, one of the three major music labels in Korea, is really formidable.

2015. 8. 26.
Source: http://www.yg-life.com/archives/54713?lang=en