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Last Fantasy
''Last Fantasy'' is the second studio album by South Korean singer-songwriter IU. It was released and distributed on November 29, 2011, by LOEN Entertainment. The album features a total of thirteen tracks, including the lead single " You & I". Upon its release, ''Last Fantasy'' was a huge commercial success, selling almost seven million copies of digital tracks in its first week of release. The total number of its digital sales surpassed the 10 million mark the following week. Meanwhile, the physical album has sold over 117,000 copies, making it the 15th best-selling Korean album of 2011.Sales references for ''Last Fantasy'': * * * The album's lead single "You & I" debuted at the top of the Gaon Singles Chart, with a massive first-week digital sales of 1,129,761 units. It stayed at the summit for two more weeks. The song also hit the pole position on the ''Billboard'' Korea K-Pop Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, becoming IU's first Korea K-Pop Hot 100 topper and the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IU (singer)
Lee Ji-eun (; born May 16, 1993), also known by her stage name IU (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She signed with Kakao M, LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a K-pop#Trainee system, trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with the Extended play, EP ''Lost and Found (IU EP), Lost and Found'' (2008). Although her follow-up albums brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of "Good Day (IU song), Good Day", the lead single from her 2010 album ''Real (IU EP), Real'', that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard''s "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list. With the success of her 2011 albums, ''Real+ (IU EP), Real+'' and ''Last Fantasy'', IU established herself as a formidable force on the music charts of her native country and further cemented her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Seung-gi
Lee Seung-gi (; born January 13, 1987) is a South Korean singer, actor, host, lyricist and entertainer. As one of the highest paid celebrities of South Korea and recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including a Golden Disc Awards, Golden Disc Award for music and Baeksang Arts Awards, Baeksang Arts Award for acting, Lee has been featured multiple times in Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40, ''Forbes'' Korea Power Celebrity 40 list since 2010, and recently ranked sixth in 2022. His success as a singer, actor and host has earned him the title of "Triple Threat" entertainer and has established him as a top Korean Wave, Hallyu star. He has numerous hit songs as a singer such as "Because You're My Woman", "Will You Marry Me", "Return" and "The Ordinary Man". He has garnered further recognition as an actor and rose to popularity in parts of Asia with leading roles in popular dramas such as ''Brilliant Legacy'' (2009), ''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inkigayo
''Inkigayo'' (; English title: ''The Music Trend'', previously ''Popular Song'') is a South Korean music program broadcast by SBS. It airs live every Sunday. The show features some of the latest and most popular artists who perform on stage. It is broadcast from the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. History ''Inkigayo'' debuted as ''SBS Popular Song'' in 1991 as a chart show, but was canceled in fall 1993 because it was replaced by TV Gayo 20 (TV 가요20). It was later revived in 1998 with its original title and format. In 2003, the chart format was removed and was replaced by ''Take 7'', where seven of the most popular artists from the week are featured and the most popular artist receives the award for ''Mutizen Song''. In spring 2007, the program changed from a recorded broadcast to a live broadcast in an effort to boost ratings, as well as changing the English name to ''The Music Trend''. On November 2, 2008, the program moved from 3:20 pm to 4:10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul Broadcasting System
Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS; ) is one of the leading Television in South Korea, South Korean television and radio broadcasters. The broadcaster legally became known as SBS in March 2000, changing its corporate name from Seoul Broadcasting System (). Its flagship terrestrial television television station, station SBS TV broadcasts as Television channel, channel 6 for digital and cable. Established on 14 November 1990, SBS is the largest private broadcasting, private broadcaster in South Korea, and is owned by the Taeyoung Construction. It operates its flagship television channel which has a nationwide network of 10 regional stations, and three radio networks. SBS has provided digital terrestrial television service in the ATSC format since 2001, and T-DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) service since 2005. History After South Korea's democratic reform in 1987, the government moved to create a new commercial broadcaster in South Korea, the second after the Munhwa Broadcasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae (; née Bailey; born 26 February 1979) is a British singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2006 single "Put Your Records On". Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. She released her debut album, ''Corinne Bailey Rae (album), Corinne Bailey Rae'', in February 2006, and became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. The album has sold over four million copies. In 2007, Bailey Rae was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards, and won two MOBO Awards. In 2008, she won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for her work as a featured artist in Herbie Hancock's ''River: The Joni Letters''). Bailey Rae released her second album, ''The Sea (Corinne Bailey Rae album), The Sea'', on 26 January 2010, after a hiatus of almost three years. It was produced by Steve Brown and Steve Chrisanthou (who produced he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoon Jong-shin
Yoon Jong-shin (; born October 15, 1969) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, and the CEO of Mystic Story. Early life and education Yoon completed high school at Daewon Foreign Language High School and studied Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University, graduating in 1993. He joined a music club called ''Sochangsa'' () where he nurtured his love for music. Career In 1990, he made his debut as a guest singer for 015B. In 1991, he announced his first album ''Like the first time we met'' () as a solo singer which drew huge public interest. He has continuously collaborated with 015B since. In 2000, he made his movie debut in ''Can hardly stop them'' with a cameo along with the director, Kim. He became active in the field of entertainment and, in 2003, took a role in a sitcom ''Nonstop 4'' where he played a professor. He owns a talent agency/record label called Mystic Entertainment, Mystic89, founded in 2001 with Lee Hak-hee. In 2009, he became a regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Juck
Lee Juck (; born February 28, 1974) is a South Korean singer, lyricist, composer and arranger. Biography Lee Juck was born in Seoul and attended Banpo High School. He graduated from Seoul National University with a major in sociology. He made his debut as a member of Panic with his neighborhood buddy Kim Jin-pyo (musician), Kim Jin-pyo in 1995 and worked with Kim Dong-ryul as a project band Carnival in 1997. In 1999, he released his first solo album ''Dead End''. His third album ''나무로 만든 노래 (Songs Made of Wood)'' won the "Album of the Year", "Song of the Year", "Best Pop Album" and "Best Pop Song" from the Korean Music Awards in 2008. Besides being a musician, Lee is a radio DJ of major radio shows in South Korea, for example, ''별이 빛나는 밤에 (At starry night)'' of MBC Standard FM, MBC AM (1996–1998), ''Ten-Ten Club'' of Seoul Broadcasting System, SBS FM (2008–2009) and so on. In 2005, he published a collection of short fantasy literature, fantasy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
