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[mayoraasei]

LOL

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*

Comments

[oncloud999.livejournal.com]

as someone who sort of follows both, it always makes me want to head-desk when people exaggerate Kpop groups' success in Japan. but tbh, i think it's mostly just some bad apples and the media playing it up. most of the fans (the ones on LJ, at least) know that the kpop artists are not hot shit in Japan. IDEK about CN blue. they were supposed to have debut first in Japan, but from what I've heard, their Japanese is pretty shitty.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Yeah I agree it's probably just a few fans, kinda like how there are a few crazy KT fans who want them to come back together *facepalm*

My biggest gripe is that it was SBS (even if it's online radio) and not getting that information right because you're trying to paint a better picture just seems.....ugh. It's like, it's SBS! Does that make any sense? LOL

[myosotis-love.livejournal.com]

I get embarrassed when I see kpop fans exaggerate the success of their group in Japan (the most recent incident was with 2pm who they claimed sold more on their first day than the top selling group on the charts ><). As for CN Blue, I think when they say "Topped the charts" it's in reference to the Oricon
Indie Groups charts (or something along those lines) and not the main charts. That being said, as a fan of both kpop and jpop, I wish they would stick with promoting in Korea because I'm kind of tired of seeing them where I want to see my jpop groups XD

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha so true for the last. I like Korean music fine enough as it is, I'm just sick of hearing K-pop with Japanese lyrics sung in a really weird accent. It makes me shudder. And my Japanese isn't even good!!!