Cho Shin Sung, is a South Korean boy band formed under Mnet Media. Its six members specialized in the areas of singing, dance, acting, rap and pop. Since debut, the group gained popularity in South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and other East Asian countries.
Boy band Supernova will be holding a concert in Japan this coming December, according to the boys on Thursday.
The six-member band broke the news to Asia Economic Daily before going on stage of music cable channel Mnet’s “M! CountDown” where they will give their first performance for their second album “Time to Shine” released yesterday.
Korean pop star Zia has taken over Mnet’s singles chart with her latest song “Laughter” during the second week of August.
The singer’s new song “Laughter” made an incredible 31-slot jump to first place, displacing former winner “I’m a Guy Like This” from hip-hop trio DJ DOC to the No. 5 spot.
Shinee is a contemporary R&B South Korean boy band. Formed by SM Entertainment in 2008, they made their debut on May 25, 2008 on SBS’s Popular Songs with their promotional single, “Noonan Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)” (“누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)”, lit. “Older Girl, You’re So Pretty (Replay)”). The group consists of Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho, and Taemin. Since their debut, Shinee has won numerous awards. They have also starred in their own reality show based on their song, “Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)”. Shinee is considered to be a fashion icon having started the “Shinee Trend”.
C.N.Blue, Code Name Blue, is a South Korean idol rock band, which debuted on August 19, 2009 in Japan with the band’s first mini-album, Now or Never. They were coined as the “2nd FT Island”. The group released four teasers for their 1st album Bluetory, starring one member per each of the videos in the sequence of Jonghyun, Minhyuk, Jungshin and lastly, Yonghwa on the 6th, 8th, 11th and 13th of January respectively. On the 12th of January, the music video of the title track 외톨이야 “I’m a Loner” was released.
Miss A is a group under AQ Entertainment, sub-label of JYPE. Miss A began as a five member group and were known as the JYP Sisters. One of the original members was Hye Lim, who replaced Sun Mi of the Wonder Girls. The two remaining members of the group, Wang Fei Fei and Meng Jia, soon had Suzy Bae added making the group into a trio.
Beast Is The B2ST! is the debut album of South Korean Boy Group BEAST, formerly known as B2ST. The album is composed of 5 tracks, The group’s super catchy debut single Bad Girl was produced by hitmakers Lee Sang Ho and Shinsadong Tiger, who also composed labelmate 4Minute’s hit singles Hot Issue and Muzik. BEAST’s highly anticipated debut album comes with four other tracks including the slow-tempo R&B number “Mystery”, the trendy pop tune Oasis, and the group anthem Beast is the B2ST.
Hot Issue is the debut single of South Korean Girl Group 4minute of Cube Entertainment, Hot Issue producer Shinsadong Tiger composed “Won’t Give” (Track 6), a clean and groovy slow-tempo piece with lyrics by Hwang Sung Jin.
4minute – is a South Korean girl group created by Cube Entertainment, subsidiary of JYP Entertainment. The leader of the group is Ji Hyun.4minute was announced in May 2009, along with two of the groups members, Kim Hyuna and Nam JiHyun. Although JiHyun is known as the leader, many singing parts and centered dancing roles belong to Hyuna. On June 11, 2009, the silhouette teaser video was released online, along with their official website.
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Shin Dong-hee (born September 28, 1985), better known by his stage name Shindong, is a Korean pop singer, actor, presenter, and a member of the super boy band Super Junior. One of the four lead dancers of the group, Shindong is also a rapper, often co-writing rap lyrics and rhythms with Eunhyuk.
Shindong was born in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang on September 28, 1985. Having a love for dancing, Shindong signed up for the 2002 Goyangsi Youth Dance contest and won the grand prize. A year later, he joined the contest again and won gold. In 2004, Shindong joined the Mnet Epi Contest and won both the gold prize and popularity award. In 2005, Shindong signed up for the SM Best Youth Contest and won first place for Best Comedian, achieving the grand prize. He signed a contract with SM Entertainment and received lessons to further improve Shindong’s dancing ability.
Korean, Japanese hip-hop artists to perform at music fest
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CNBLUE tops weekly music charts in Taiwan
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Kara becomes first Asian girl group to rank in Oricon’s top 5
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