[Article] Watch: YG Artists React To BIGBANG’s “Still Life” MV + TREASURE Members Shed Tears

Watch: YG Artists React To BIGBANG’s “Still Life” MV + TREASURE Members Shed Tears

Watch: YG Artists React To BIGBANG’s “Still Life” MV + TREASURE Members Shed Tears

Apr 16, 2022

Several of BIGBANG’s YG Entertainment labelmates got emotional while watching the group’s latest music video!

On April 16, YG Entertainment released a reaction video of WINNER, iKON, and TREASURE watching BIGBANG’s music video for their new single “Still Life.”

The clip begins with the artists talking about how much BIGBANG means to them, describing themselves as fans of the group and commenting that it’s an honor for them to watch their music video early.

As the music video for “Still Life” begins playing, the three groups express their awe at how great the BIGBANG members look and how cool the video is—and as they get increasingly caught up in their emotions, TREASURE’s Haruto and Yoshi are eventually unable to hold back their tears.

After watching the video, TREASURE’s Choi Hyun Suk notes, “What we’re watching is the present, and there are no clips from the past [in the video]—but somehow, I kept thinking about the past [while watching].”

Meanwhile, iKON’s Bobby remarks, “It makes you look back on your past memories of the ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter’ [the literal Korean title of ‘Still Life’] that have passed by, and it also makes you look forward to the approaching ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter’ that’s yet to come. I think it’s a story about life.”

WINNER’s Song Mino also comments, “Because we all know the story of BIGBANG so well, I think we’re especially able to feel the full weight of the meaning that each and every phrase [of the lyrics] holds.”

Bringing up the lyric “I miss the boy and girl who cried and laughed,” TREASURE’s Yoshi explains why he burst into tears by sharing, “Personally, I always spent the times when I cried and laughed together with BIGBANG’s music. So that lyric really hit me hard, and I suddenly started crying.”

Watch the full reaction video with English subtitles below!


Source: Soompi

[Article] April Boy Group Member Brand Reputation Rankings Announced

April Boy Group Member Brand Reputation Rankings Announced

April Boy Group Member Brand Reputation Rankings Announced

Apr 16, 2022

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual boy group members!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, communication, and community awareness indexes of 703 boy group members, using big data collected from March 16 to April 16.

BTS’s Jimin held onto his spot at the top of the list for the third consecutive month with a brand reputation index of 6,877,359, marking a 33.72 percent increase in his score since March. High-ranking phrases in his keyword analysis included “Instagram,” “hashtag,” and “Our Blues,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “participate,” “challenge,” and “increase.” Jimin’s positivity-negativity analysis also revealed a score of 87.09 percent positive reactions.

Meanwhile, BIGBANG’s G-Dragon rose to second place in the rankings after enjoying a staggering 335.02 percent rise in his brand reputation index since last month. His total score for April came out to 5,756,906.

Wanna One’s Kang Daniel took third place for the month with a brand reputation index of 5,468,359, marking a 25.92 percent increase in his score since March.

Finally, BTS swept the next three spots on the list, with V at fourth place, Jin at fifth, and Jungkook at sixth.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

  1. BTS’s Jimin
  2. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
  3. Wanna One’s Kang Daniel
  4. BTS’s V
  5. BTS’s Jin
  6. BTS’s Jungkook
  7. 2PM’s Lee Junho
  8. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
  9. Super Junior’s Kim Heechul
  10. WINNER’s Song Mino
  11. BTS’ Suga
  12. SF9’s Rowoon
  13. Super Junior’s Choi Siwon
  14. BIGBANG’s Daesung
  15. BTS’s RM
  16. WINNER’s Kang Seung Yoon
  17. Highlight’s Yoon Doojoon
  18. Super Junior’s Kyuhyun
  19. BIGBANG’s Taeyang
  20. BTS’s J-Hope
  21. Wanna One’s Kim Jae Hwan
  22. Highlight’s Yang Yoseob
  23. Wanna One’s Park Ji Hoon
  24. Highlight’s Lee Gikwang
  25. VICTON’s Byungchan
  26. SHINee’s Key
  27. WINNER’s Lee Seung Hoon
  28. Super Junior’s Yesung
  29. SHINee’s Minho
  30. Wanna One’s Ha Sung Woon

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Source: Soompi

[Article] [DA:Music] Even if the 4th generation comes, ‘BIGBANG is BIGBANG’. The power of music to find and hear

The group BIGBANG has proven the power of ‘find and listen’ music. After debuting in 2006, when the music industry welcomed the 4th generation idol until now, if they only released new songs, they are showing off their potential by occupying the top spot on the charts and music shows.

BIGBANG’s digital single ‘봄여름가을겨울 (Still Life)’, released for the first time in about four years, has been occupying the top of major music charts such as Melon Top 100 24hits, Genie, Bugs, Vibe, and Flo for the 11th day as of the 15th. On the 15th week of the Gaon Chart (April 3rd – April 9th) run by the Korea Music Contents Association, it won 6 gold medals. 1 in digital, download, streaming, BGM, ringtone, and RBT categories. Genie Music also analyzed that it was an “extraordinary chart occupancy,” and from Melon, which boasts the largest share of the domestic music market, ‘Still Life’ was counted as being listened to by 908,000 people in the first 24 hours of its release. This is the highest since 2020 based on boy group music and a record in the top 10 since Melon started its music service. Although BIGBANG’s songs from No. 1 to No. 8 are already being monopolized, ‘Stil Life’ is the only new song that has been newly named within the past three years.

Looking at the distribution of users for ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (Still Life)’ in Melon, you can driving force behind BIGBANG’s music. Idol group music tends to focus on a specific class, but ‘봄여름가을겨울 (Still Life)’ showed an even distribution. Women and men accounted for 56% and men 44%, respectively, and by age group, those in their 20s accounted for 45%, those in their 30s 20%, and those in their teens and 40s each accounted for 13%.

In addition, as a result of analyzing music video streaming on YouTube, direct search, not inflow by algorithm recommendation, accounted for the largest share of listeners for ‘Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Still Life)’ of BIGBANG at 39%. It was also achieved without a separate promotion to increase the number of views.

In terms of music alone, BIGBANG is the group that took K-Pop status to the next level on the global stage and has the most hit songs among all K-Pop groups. In addition, he debuted in 2006 and released numerous mega-hit songs, maintaining the top position, competing with current idols called ‘4th generation’ on music shows and taking the first place.

It is analyzed that such a record was possible because of the musical trust that BIGBANG has built up over the years, rather than being simply disparaged as a ‘memories’. Eyes on them were mixed with various rumors, but BIGBANG was the BIGBANG nonetheless.

By Jeon Hyo-jin, staff reporter at Donga.com This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Source: Naver