The 2014 SBS Gayo Daejun is the first major year-end music show spectacular and many of the top K-Pop acts will be performing  their biggest hit songs of the year. Of course you can expect many surprise special stages and collaborations!

The specially formed group ‘Lucky Boys’ will be hosting the show—2PM’s Nichkhun, CNBLUE’s Jung Yong Hwa, INFINITE’s L, B1A4’s Baro, and WINNER’s Mino. Song Ji Hyo will also be joining them.Additionally, ZE:A’s Kwanghee and M.I.B’s Kangnam are said to have taken on the roles of manager and stylist for the group.

Other rumored collaborations are Sung Si Kyung + Ailee, Taeyang with Jeff Benatand Seo Tae Ji with various idol groups to end the show.

Expected Performers: 2NE1, G-Dragon x Taeyang, WINNER, Akdong Musician, Ailee, Sung Si Kyung, 4Minute, Sunmi, Epik High, VIXX, SISTAR, AOA, Teen Top, T-Ara, A Pink,  Lovelyz, Seo Tae Ji and more!

Live Recap: (Latest posts will be at the end)

Show start!

The Lucky Boys start the show with their performance!

Super 1: “Strong Babies”

GOT7

Red Velvet

It is known that many fans of K-Pop worldwide utilize a number of different social networking sites and platforms to share their love for the music and the artists. One of the commonly used platforms, Tumblr, a microblogging site and social networking service, included K-Pop as one of the categories in its ‘Year in Review’ analysis.

Tumblr’s ‘Year in Review’ is said to showcase some of the best things that happened on the Internet from 2014 after analyzing “millions of blogs, billions of posts, and zillions of notes” according to factors such as the total number of posts and tags, web user traffic, and more.

The SNS platform recently revealed a ranking of the most reblogged K-Pop groups throughout the entire year of 2014. This particular list is based on the findings of Tumblr’s breakdown for the entire year, which may be an indication of the most popular or most talked-about subjects in K-Pop this year amongst Tumblr users.

The list is as follows:

1. EXO
2. BTS
3. B.A.P
4. Girls’ Generation
5. SHINee
6. VIXX
7. INFINITE
8. GOT7
9. Super Junior
10. BIGBANG
11. f(x)
12. Block B
13. 2NE1
14. TVXQ
15. B1A4
16. iKON
17. Red Velvet
18. WINNER
19. BEAST
20. 2PM

The top two songs remain the same this week as Kyuhyun’s “At Gwanghwamun” repeats at No. 1 for the second straight week. Once again it defeats AOA’s “Like A Cat.” The gap between these two songs has actually grown wider, with “At Gwanghwamun” winning by 45 points this week compared to 27 points last week. “At Gwanghwamun” won another two music program last week as it was No. 1 on M!Countdown and Show Champion. Congratulations once again to Kyuhyun, who has made a spectacular solo debut.

There are lots of changes beneath the top two songs as we have four new songs in the top 10 this week. Moving up 12 spots to No. 3 is a duet between SISTAR’s Hyorin and Jooyoung titled “Erase.” Once again a SISTAR member is helping an underrated artist with a duet. Soyu has done that many times and it is now Hyorin’s turn. “Erase” is a jazz style R&B ballad that showcases the vocal strength of both artists. The lyrics is about young people’s typical relationship cycle of going through hook up and break up as a new relationship will erase a previous one.

Up 15 spots to No. 5 is Toy’s “Three People,” featuring Sung Shi Kyung. Musician and MC Yoo Hee Yeol, who goes by his stage name Toy, releases his seventh studio album “Da Capo” recently. That is his first album in seven years. Songs on his album achieves “all kill” on music charts, and despite no promotion, album title track “Three People” won on Music Bank and Music Core last week. This song is about a sad love story of a man who watched the woman he loved marry his friend and he can only wish them happiness. Sung Shi Kyung’s smooth vocal is a perfect fit for this song.

Moving up eight spots to No. 6 is a duet between BIGBANG’s G-Dragon and Taeyang. Their song “Good Boy” is a hip-hop song with additive trap beat. Taeyang’s vocal and G-Dragon’s rap matches perfectly. Written by G-Dragon himself, the lyrics are about a man who wants to have a fairy tale style romance. “Good Boy” won on Inkigayo last week but is not yet ranked on some of the music program charts, so it has to settle for the sixth spot on our chart this week.

The last new song in the top 10 is at No. 7, it is by one of this year’s top new male group GOT7. After releasing two mini-albums earlier this year, they finally release their first full length album “Identify” recently. The title song “Stop Stop It” is a JYP written groovy hip-hop dance song. This song is unique in that GOT7 members’ voices were distorted using a vocoder.

About the Soompi Music Chart:

Soompi Music Chart is unlike any other music chart or television ranking. It takes into account rankings by various major music charts in Korea as well as the hottest trending artists on Soompi, making it a unique chart that reflects what’s going on in K-Pop not only in Korea but around the world. Our chart is composed of the following sources:

GAON Music Chart – 25%
Various Internet charts (Olleh, Bugs, Melon, Soribada, Genie) – 15%
Soompi Airplay – 15%
TV Music Show charts (SBS Inkigayo, KBS Music Bank, MBC Music Core, MNet M!Countdown) – 45%

YG Entertainment‘s idol group Winner released a mysterious teaser image through YG Entertainment’s official Twitter account.

The teaser just looks like a smooth black fabric with the letters “WWIC 2015? on it. The only other information revealed about this teaser is that there will be others coming soon.

What do you think the teaser is about? Share your thoughts below and stay turned to Soompi for more updates!

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Actress Han Ye Seul and YG Entertainment’s producer Teddy have assured fans that they are still together.

Dating openly since last year, rumors floated around the last two to three weeks of a breakup between the two. Especially since there were a lot of celebrity couples reported to have separated, fans have gradually focused on the couple and their status. Han Ye Seul’s side stated, “After verifying, there seems to be no problems with their relationship.”

Han Ye Seul is currently starring in SBS weekend drama “Birth of a Beauty” and when she doesn’t have a shooting schedule, she is with Teddy. A source from “Birth of a Beauty” stated, “On the set, Han Ye Seul talks to her boyfriend every chance she gets, making everyone envious of the couple.”

Han Ye Seul made her comeback after three years with “Birth of a Beauty,” and Teddy, after his debut as 1tym in 1998, has been the producer of hits songs of artists like BIGBANG and 2NE1.