Get lost in the music

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okay, that's more like it. on their second day ive took top spot on the hanteo charts with 233,000 physical albums sold. the boygroup that was in 1st and 2nd place with their 'best of' compilation were relegated to 2nd and 3rd today. seriously though, this is my first time seeing a 'best of' album on the kpop charts, i had no idea 'best of' albums even existed.

i'll find some more ive release stats after i make myself a latte. i would play you some music in the meantime but ive's accendio is on repeat at the moment.

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i will say this before i get back to ive. it looks like newjeans has sold just over 200,000 copies of their new album. i can't compare with previous newjeans releases but it does seem a bit low in comparison to ive's soon to bee million seller. i wonder if it's fallout from newjeans CEO min hee jin going off the rails.

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this might give you an idea of ive's popularity. when you think about it, ive is a group still in their second year, how amazing is that?

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lots of new ive content already and more to come. first off this video is sure to enrage chinese netizens what with the traditional korean yet modern costumes which i'm sure are culturally similar.

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the debate started by chinese netizens is starting to get heated.

Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, took a swipe at some Chinese netizens who insisted that the music video for IVE's new song "HEYA" was "Chinese-style."

Professor Suh Kyung-duk pointed out in an official press release on the 1st, "Starting with kimchi and hanbok, Korea's representative culture, such as samgyetang and fan dance, has been insisted that it is 'Chinese,' and now they are insisting that the scenes in the videos of K-pop stars are also Chinese culture."

In particular, he emphasized, "As Korean cultural content has been attracting the attention of the world, the inferiority complex of Chinese viewers has become too severe, and it is just a pity that they cannot get out of the 'crooked Chinese ideology.'"

This is in response to some Chinese netizens making malicious comments about Ive's "should" music bido, making absurd claims such as "stealing Chinese culture."

- AI translation of korean source

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these girls are russian kpop reactors but i swear they're using the gyeonggi dialect.

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i've been meaning to post one of these for awhile now. it's a live view count of ive's videos. i think it's cool that i am still draws 100,000 views a day.

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I think Vancouver is going to win

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this one probably only makes me giggle and i'll probably go to newjeans hell for posting it.

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i've's last three albums have sold over a million copies each in korea. actually, lve's last album sold two million copies in korea and another two million internationally.

truth bee told there is another 4th generation group that has sold a million copies each of their last three albums and were actually the first to do so. will they make it four for four? i think so.

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aespa has also played the tokyo dome.

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okay, did you know (g)i-dle is currently ranked #1 on the hanteo would charts? the world charts are where hanteo crunches the numbers based on 'big data' and ranks idol groups on their real-time world-wide popularity. it's pretty amazing actually.

that being said ive have been at #2 on the hanteo world charts all year and their momentum isn't slowing down anytime soon.

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Fascinating.

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i think so. especially since ive and (g)i-dle aren't from the big four entertainment companies so they don't spend near the amount of dough to get the word out.

it's late so i think it's time for some city pop.

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there's no better way to start off a saturday than by watching qwer in all their glory. this is what a group of creators can bring to the music video table.

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