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Janus (Boyfriend Album)
''Janus'' is the first studio album released by Boyfriend. The album was released physically on November 8 and online on November 13, 2012 by Starship Entertainment and their distributing label LOEN Entertainment. Music videos The music video for "Janus" was released on November 8, 2012. Their second music video was "I Yah" alongside child actress Kim So-hyun, was released on January 10, 2013 Commercial performance ''Janus'' debuted at number two on the Gaon Album Chart The Circle Album Chart, previously known as the Gaon Album Chart, is a record chart ranking the 100 most popular albums, extended plays and single albums in South Korea based on their Record sales, pure sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, pr ... in South Korea for the week of November 11, 2012. As of January 2013, the album has sold 32,205 copies in South Korea and 2,853 in Japan. Its reissue, ''I Yah'', has sold 24,675 copies in South Korea and 3,670 in Japan as of 2013. Track listing Charts Wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyfriend (band)
Boyfriend () is a South Korean boy band formed by Starship Entertainment in 2011. They are the first boy group to have twin members. The group consists of Kim Dong-hyun, Shim Hyun-seong, Lee Jeong-min, Jo Young-min, Jo Kwang-min and No Min-woo. They debuted on Mnet's ''M Countdown'' on May 26, 2011 with "Boyfriend". On May 17, 2019, Starship Entertainment announced that Boyfriend disbanded. They reformed on April 30, 2021 and returned with the digital single "Ending Credit" on May 26 for their 10-year anniversary. On December 29, 2021, Boyfriend made a comeback under the new name "BF" and released the EP ''Adonis''. BF celebrated their 11th year anniversary by releasing a fan song "Canvas" on May 26, 2022. History Pre-debut Youngmin and Kwangmin trained under JYP Entertainment for two years. By their 100th day mark of being child actors, the twins had appeared in over 300 commercials. During his high school years, Donghyun starred in a variety show ''Conduct Zero'' where six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Album Chart
The Circle Album Chart, previously known as the Gaon Album Chart, is a record chart ranking the 100 most popular albums, extended plays and single albums in South Korea based on their Record sales, pure sales. It is a part of the Circle Chart, previously known as the Gaon Chart. It compiles shipments in weekly, monthly and year-end format with detailed album sales. History The Gaon Album Chart was launched as a part of the Gaon Chart in February 2010 by Korea Music Content Association and South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In February 2011, Gaon Chart published information on both online and offline albums sales of 2010, including a detailed breakdown of online chart data and was the first time that offline album sales was released since 2008 when the Music Industry Association of Korea stopped compiling data. In July 2022, Gaon Chart was rebranded as Circle Chart with reformation in the album chart that would also provide weekly physical album sales data in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakao M Albums
Kakao ( ko, 카카오) is a South Korean internet company that was established in 2010. It formed as a result of a merger between Daum (web portal), Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc. In 2014, the company was renamed Daum Kakao. The company rebranded once more in 2015, reverting simply to ''Kakao''. In May 2015, the company acquired Path (social network), Path, an American social media company that had become successful in Indonesia. In January 2016, Kakao acquired a 76.4% stake in Kakao M, LOEN Entertainment, a large South Korean entertainment company, for $1.5 billion. It was later rebranded as Kakao M. The company has gained further prominence from KakaoTalk, a free mobile instant messaging Application software, application for smartphones with text and call features. By May 2017, the app had 220 million registered users and 47 million active monthly users. As of March 2022, the company is competing with Naver for No.1 position in the Japanese Webcomic, web comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyfriend (band) Albums
A boyfriend is a man who is a friend or acquaintance to the speaker, often specifying a regular male companion with whom a person is romantically or sexually involved. A boyfriend can also be called an admirer, beau, suitor and sweetheart. The analogous term for women is "girlfriend". Scope Partners in committed non-marital relationships are also sometimes described as a ''significant other'' or ''partner'', especially if the individuals are cohabiting. A 2005 study of 115 people ages 21 to 35 who were either living with or had lived with a romantic partner notes that the lack of proper terms often leads to awkward situations, such as someone upset over not being introduced in social situations to avoid the question. Word history The word ''dating'' entered the American language during the Roaring Twenties. Prior to that, courtship was a matter of family and community interest. Starting around the time of the American Civil War, courtship became a private matter for coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Albums
The following is a list of Album, albums, Extended play, EPs, and Mixtape, mixtapes released in 2012. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding Reissue, reissues, Remasters, remasters, and Compilation album, compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) WP:MUS, notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2012 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date 2012 albums, 2012-related lists, Albums Lists of albums by release date, 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Music Chart
The Circle Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart (), tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea. It is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Founded in 2010. History Gaon Chart was launched in February 2010 by the Korea Music Content Association, under the sponsorship of the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the aim to create a domestic national chart similar to the ''Billboard'' charts of the United States and the Oricon charts of Japan. The word ''gaon'', which means "middle" or "center" in Korean, was chosen to represent fairness and reliability. The chart started tracking sales from the beginning of that year. A small awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the launch ceremony on February 23, at the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. Girl group Girls' Generation was awarded the Top Artist of January, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Chart since 2017
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Kim So-hyun
Kim So-hyun (; born June 4, 1999) is a South Korean actress who began her career as a child in 2006, initially gaining public attention for playing pivotal roles in ''Moon Embracing the Sun'' (2012) and '' Missing You'' (2013). She took on her first leading role in teen drama ''Ma Boy'' (2012) and since then has starred in many TV series including high-school drama '' Who Are You: School 2015'' (2015), horror comedy ''Hey Ghost, Let's Fight'' (2016), historical melodrama '' The Emperor: Owner of the Mask'' (2017), romantic comedies '' Radio Romance'' (2018) and ''The Tale of Nokdu'' (2019), teen suspense romance ''Love Alarm'' (2019 & 2021) and Korean folklore ''River Where the Moon Rises'' as an assassin. '' Pure Love'' (2016) was her first movie as a lead. She was the regular host of MBC's music program ''Music Core'' and survival reality show ''Under Nineteen'' in 2019. Kim has been nicknamed by the Korean medias as the "Nation's Little Sister", "Queen of Child Actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-pop
K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. The term "K-pop" became popular in the 2000s, especially in the international context. The Korean term for domestic pop music is ''gayo'' (), which is still widely used within South Korea. While "K-pop" can refer to all popular music or pop music from South Korea, it is colloquially often used in a ''narrower'' sense for any Korean music and artists associated with the entertainment and idol industry in the country, regardless of the genre. The more modern form of the genre, originally termed "rap dance", emerged with the formation of the hip hop boy band Seo Taiji and Boys, in 1992. Their experimentation with different sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LOEN Entertainment
Kakao M (; formerly Seoul Records, YBM Seoul Records and LOEN Entertainment) was a South Korean entertainment company established by Min Yeong-bin in 1978. It is currently one of the largest co-publisher companies in South Korea. The company operates as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management, concert production company, and music publishing house. , the company was the leading record company in South Korea by net revenue according to the statistics compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association (KMCIA) through the Gaon Music Chart (30.4%); it is also the second leading company in terms of album sales (25.4%). LOEN Entertainment became a subsidiary of Kakao in January 2016 and was subsequently renamed two years later. Online music sales account for most of the company's profit, with 93.9% of revenue coming from online music sales. The label also distributes CDs of some other entertainment agencies in South Korea through its branch 1t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
