Korean pop the next big thing?

Korean pop the next big thing?

The five-piece Korean boy group, Big Bang, have shocked music industry experts by landing a top 10 album on US iTunes.

Korean pop – or K-Pop as it’s now commonly referred to – has become one of the hottest genres in music with articles about the growing phenomenon appearing in Billboard magazine and MTV online.

This has led to a number of K-Pop acts trying their luck in America – from Wonder Girls to BoA – but so far with little success.

That is until the release of Big Bang’s latest mini-album Tonight.

It becomes the first K-Pop album to reach the top 10 on US iTunes and is the only non-English language album in the top 100.

If the genre’s popularity keeps growing at this rate, it’s only a matter of time until the K-Pop wave reaches Australia.

Check out a 40 second preview of Tonight below.

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6 responses to “Korean pop the next big thing?”

  1. […] Koreansk pop (derav “K-Pop”, din sløvsekk) har begynt å få fot i så godt som hele østlige Asia, og USA har også faktisk såvidt fått øynene vidåpne (det var da svært til racial slur) for dette fenomenet. Big Bang ble nettopp første ikke-engelskspråklige artist/gruppe som kom inn på US Top 10 album chart. JYJ er en av de mer fremadstormende gruppene, og er tatt inn under Kanye Wests vinger. K-pop begynner nå å bli kjent hos mange, og folk i musikkpressen som følger litt med i timen har innsett at dette kanskje er det nye store. […]