2NE1 is #1 on illegal music download sites for 2 weeks consecutive, something to be happy about?
Newcomer group 2NE1 has been #1 on illegal music download sites for 2nd week consecutively.
On illegal music download sites P2P and Webhard and also several other cafe sites, 2NE1’s debut song ‘Fire’ is #1 for the 2nd week taking up 24% of illegal music download contents.
This group has been famous even before their debut with their hit CM song ‘Lollipop’ and their nickname as the ‘female Big Bang‘. Even though this does show the group and the song popularity, it certainly have some harms on the legal single downloads. This also points to the need of more copyright controls on music content.
The rest of the chart results:
1. 2NE1 ‘Fire’
2. SeeYa, Davichi and JiYeon with ‘Female Generation’ (from #4 last week)
3. 2PM with hook song ‘Again & Again’
4. Super Junior with ‘It’s You’
5. ChaeYeon ‘Shake’
the debut of 2ne1’s live performance. there was about 1000 people lined up outside just to catch a glimpse of them. most of them couldn’t get in, and i was told people were waiting outside of the SBS studio since the night before. well the fans got what they wanted and i think my ears were bleeding through all the yelling. no joke.
on the left is right before the girls went on to tech for their show. i could feel the tension and i was nervous too. i felt like i was going to perform...its hard cuz i felt like i had no control and its really up to them to make it happen. honestly the girls did really good. a lot of energy and a little warming up is all they needed. im sure they will only continue to get better from here.
one of the freshest moments was going to a theater and seeing my choreography on a movie screen this was right before watching star trek too. i did a commercial for big bang and 2ne1 and they showed it. was a dope feeling!
1TYM’s Teddy rejects offer to work with Lady Gaga for 2NE1
It has been disclosed that Teddy, originally a member of hip-hop group 1TYM and now an active producer, rejected an offer to work with Lady Gaga, a pop-singer who is gaining the most popularity in the United States today.
Yang Hyun Suk, the president of YG Entertainment in which Teddy and 2NE1 are affiliated with, revealed, “A few months ago, Teddy and I attended a meeting with Jimmy Iovine, the representative of Interscope,” and, “After listening to songs that Teddy produced, Iovine asked if Teddy could produce a song for Lady Gaga.”
Interscope, composed of Lady Gaga as well as Black Eyed Peas, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Limp Bizkit, and a great number of popular artists, is the biggest entertainment company in the United States.
Additionally, Yang Hyun Suk said, “However, at that time Teddy could only reject the offer to work with Lady Gaga because he was working on 2NE1’s debut album,” and “Because he rejected all outside offers and focused more on 2NE1’s album, we could see good results.”
Teddy produced various hit songs such as TaeYang’s ‘Look at Only Me,’ Uhm JungHwa’s ‘Disco,’ and Big Bang’s ‘Sunset Glow’ last year and ‘Lollipop,’ which swept up all 1st places on music charts without any special broadcast activities, recently. His skills have surfaced once again with 2NE1’s debut song, ‘Fire,’ which he produced and is gathering attention by taking 1st places on music ranks.