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Listening to Popasia while I'm working. I haven't listened to it in a while due to the amount of monopoly K-pop seems to have on it. If it's not K-pop then it's Korean bands singing in really bad Japanese...and if there's one thing I can't stand it's weird accents Orz
They used to have southeast Asia pop and now they barely even have Mandarin or even proper Japanese pop, and that rubs me the wrong way when I'm in a bad mood LOL
They now have sections where they introduce Korean bands and they introduced CN Blue, who apparently debuted first in Japan before Korea and now tops charts in both countries, which surprised me since I've never even heard of them.
Thinking exams have made me such a hermit that I hadn't even heard of a Korean group managing to top Oricon so close to their debut, I looked them up....
According to Wikipedia their highest ranking single "Re-maintenance" released this year had a peak of #12 on Oricon.
I don't know what the exact definition of "topping the charts" is, but I was fairly sure that not squeezing into the top 10 on the biggest sales chart in the country automatically gets you disqualified.
Prior to this I always thought K-pop fans exaggerating the successes of their groups was just limited to a few bad apples, but this is ridiculous. The SBS brand has always been one for credible information (at least compared to commercial stations) and now my whole impression of it is ruined =____=
It would be wrong to argue that perhaps they did top some obscure charts in Japan and that the anchor did not mean deception, because when you say "topped the charts in Japan" people would automatically assume Oricon, just as if they topped American charts you'd automatically assume Billboard or one of the bigger charts.
*Back to listening to Nishino Kana*
Listening to Popasia while I'm working. I haven't listened to it in a while due to the amount of monopoly K-pop seems to have on it. If it's not K-pop then it's Korean bands singing in really bad Japanese...and if there's one thing I can't stand it's weird accents Orz
They used to have southeast Asia pop and now they barely even have Mandarin or even proper Japanese pop, and that rubs me the wrong way when I'm in a bad mood LOL
They now have sections where they introduce Korean bands and they introduced CN Blue, who apparently debuted first in Japan before Korea and now tops charts in both countries, which surprised me since I've never even heard of them.
Thinking exams have made me such a hermit that I hadn't even heard of a Korean group managing to top Oricon so close to their debut, I looked them up....
According to Wikipedia their highest ranking single "Re-maintenance" released this year had a peak of #12 on Oricon.
I don't know what the exact definition of "topping the charts" is, but I was fairly sure that not squeezing into the top 10 on the biggest sales chart in the country automatically gets you disqualified.
Prior to this I always thought K-pop fans exaggerating the successes of their groups was just limited to a few bad apples, but this is ridiculous. The SBS brand has always been one for credible information (at least compared to commercial stations) and now my whole impression of it is ruined =____=
It would be wrong to argue that perhaps they did top some obscure charts in Japan and that the anchor did not mean deception, because when you say "topped the charts in Japan" people would automatically assume Oricon, just as if they topped American charts you'd automatically assume Billboard or one of the bigger charts.
*Back to listening to Nishino Kana*
