Pop phenomenon Wonder Girls have made it into the Billboard charts once again with mini-album “2 Different Tears” released in mid-June ranked 21st on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
The Heatseekers chart ranks top-selling albums “by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never been appeared on the top 100 of the Billboard 200″ or the top 10 of other genre albums.
Ye-eun, a member of the Wonder Girls, wrote on her Twitter, “Did you know that we are in the Heatseekers Albums chart? Nobody took four months to get to the Billboard, and this time it took two months less. Thank you everybody.”
Wonder Girls’ U.S. debut song “Nobody” was ranked 76th in the Billboard Chart Hot 100 in October last year. The group is currently on a nationwide concert tour of the U.S.
Our friends over at MTV Iggy have been covering the Wonder Girls and they’ve got some good material for all you Wonder Girls fans. Do you know what diet Yubin is on? Want to see some good video clips of their latest concerts? And of course some good one on one interviews. Check it all out at MTV Iggy.
According to the New York Times, the South Korean government is considering using the voices of Kpop girl bands to broadcast propaganda at the North Koreans. This is for real.
In response to the sinking of one of its ships, South Korea recently erected speakers along its demilitarized zone with North Korea — to be used for propaganda broadcasts. A South Korean newspaper reports that the government is also considering using “songs and music videos by manufactured girl bands such as Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls, After School, Kara and 4minute in so-called psychological warfare against North Korea.” Wonder if they’ve considered Barry Manilow?
Check out AllKpop’s coverage of the Wonder Girl’s tour through the U.S. Our good friend Cat Chung gets behind the scenes with the Wonder Girls as they performed at the Hammerstein ballroom in New York City.
At the end of the night, allkpop sat down with the Wonder Girls. Although they had a very long day singing, dancing and meeting hundreds of fans, the ladies still remained gracious and enthusiastic. Their smiles and laughter were so genuine and they welcomed us warmly to speak with them. Check out our interview and photos from the Sunday night NYC show! Stay tuned fans, we’ll be bringing you more exclusives along the tour!
For full coverage of the Wonder Girls, go to AllKpop.com.
This past Saturday night was the 8th Korean Music Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Are good friends at AllKpop covered the event in LA where a huge crowd saw their favorite Kpop stars performing outside of South Korea. The usual suspects were on hand from the Wonder Girls to the boy band 2PM. For photos of the event, go to AllKpop.com for their great coverage and photos. Here are several audience videos of the event.
Looks like those Kpop girls from South Korea are getting a little lonely in the states. They hang out a lot along Korea town in NY and that’s because the JYP Entertainment headquarters are a few blocks away. You’ll see glimpses of them together eating soondubu but never with a male companion. It sure must get lonely for these pop tarts and they share a little bit from their de facto website WonderfulsWorld.com.
Hollywood hunks like Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, and Robert Pattison have found fans in Korean girl group The Wonder Girls. But men not blessed in the genetics department needn’t fret. These girls are equally open to just about anybody and everybody as Park Ye-eun (better known as Yenny) says, “We don’t really care about races or colours.”
But so far, their love lives have been anything but colourful, “We haven’t really met boys in the states. We are quite busy touring all the states (in America),” she continued to explain.
Currently busy with the promotional activities for their latest English single, Nobody, the girls (Park Ye-eun, Min Sun Ye, Ahn Sohee, Kim Yubin, Yu Hae Lim) have their hands full preparing for the May/June worldwide release of their upcoming music album. It doesn’t help that it will be recorded with songs in three different languages (Korean, English, and Chinese) to “satisfy fans from all over the world.”
They’re the most successful Korean girl group in the US market, but the start before the breakthrough was all but bumpy. They were sent to attend English classes in America and confessed that “the language” was the biggest obstacle” for them.
The girls have had intensive English lessons for less than a year, and while their grasp of the language is far from perfect, there’s already an American accent when they speak. “Except Yubin, we’ve never lived in the US before, so we really needed to learn English very hard. And we’re still learning English very hard [now],” quipped Yenny in crisp American accent.
Despite being far from home, the girls aren’t worried about the increasing competition or losing base with their Korean fans.
“This is just a miracle to be able to do what we are doing now,” Min Sun Ye gushed in response while Yenny the most eloquent speaker of the group, reiterated, “We don’t really try to keep our place on top [of the game]. We just try to deliver our music and try to interact with fans.”
And their game plan for keeping in touch with international fans? Social media networking platform, Twitter.
“To be honest, that’s why we try to tweet a lot. We can still talk to our fans through twitter,” the giggly girls agreed in unison.
The quintet changed the landscape of K-pop in the world with their catchy rifts and signature dance moves in their hit song ‘Nobody’. And despite all that fame and success under their belts, they remained unbelievably humble and grounded when asked to differentiate themselves from other girl groups in Korea.
The group’s leader, Sun Ye, replied with a slight drawl, “Yeah, I wonder too.
“We are really not that pretty, and not that smart. We are not that good at singing and dancing, I think. We are just really grateful that people are enjoying our music, dance, and everything. Yeah, so thankful for that.”
Looks like fans will be in for a surprise this coming May/June. The girls played coy and refused to divulge details of their upcoming new concept. They hemmed and hawed for a few moments before Yenny flashed a cheeky grin and chirped, “No comments!”
The Wonder Girl’s latest music single, Nobody, is available at all leading record stores.
Since the Wonder Girls are such a popular topic on Korean Beacon and have made history by being the first Korean pop group to make it big in the U.S., I will be showing you how to do a makeup look based on their hit video “Nobody”. The look is very Sixties style~ The Eyes are the standouts here.
I tried to do a quick and informative video that you could use minimal products to get a whole new look. I used the Too Faced Natural Eye Palette to create the look. I love this palette because you can do sooo many different things and create a ton of looks with this one kit. I find that most Asians like a natural look, so this is a great kit to use for an everyday look, but can also be used to create many different dramatic looks.
The Too Faced Natural Eye Palette contains:
3 Large Eye Shadows (Heaven- A light Nude Matte, Silk Teddy- A Pinkish/Champagne Shimmer, Nude Beach- A Champagne Shimmer w/ Gold Flecks)
3 Medium Toned Eye Shadows (Velvet Rolver- A Taupe Matte, Push-Up- A Coppery Shimmer, Honey Pot- A Gold Shimmer)
3 Dark Toned Eye Shadows (Sexpresso- A Dark Brown Matte, Erotica- A Grayish Brown w/ Hints of Gold Shimmer, Cocoa Puff- A Reddish Brown w/ Hints of Gold Shimmer)
You can use the Eye Shadows in so many different ways. There are three cards that gives you directions to create a Day, Classic, and Fashion look. You can also use the Heaven as a base for other eye shadows, the Silk Teddy and Nude Beach as Highlighters on the Cheeks, and the Velvet Revolver for Contouring.
If I were to recommend one Eye Shadow Kit for everyone, this is it. It’ll last you forever, It’s a good price, convenient, So easy to use, and is a great all in one kit.
If you’d rather read or get more details on the look, you can go to: http://irenekimmakeup.blogspot.com/2010/02/wondergirls-nobody-inspired-makeup-too.html
So get yourself one of these kits and try out my “Wonder Girls Inspired Makeup Look” so that everyone will want “Nobody but you!” =)
The power of the Internet (or Korean netizens) made the music video “Nobody” by the Wonder Girls as the video of the year (2009), according to an online poll conducted by musiqtone.com. The video received 37% of the overall vote among 80 eligible candidates. That’s a lot of voting from the devoted Wonder Girls’ fan base and probably from South Korea.
Musiqtone.com is a website that provides news and multimedia content about albums and music videos in the U.S.
Gotta admit, that’s quite an accomplishment to have sold the most number of single CDs in North America. Those darn Wonder Girls keep the Nobody train moving.
Wonder Girls set the record for the most number of single CDs sold in North America in 2009. Billboard reported that Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” released last year in the United States topped the hot singles sales chart.
The five girls were Korea’s first singing group to be included in Billboard’s main chart of Hot 100 by ranking 76th. The sales of their first single record in America exceeded most people’s expectations, raising the bar for the girls even higher this year. “Nobody” is also currently placed first in the online poll for the year’s hottest music video on musictone.com. Other nominees in the poll include “Single Lady” by Beyonce, “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga, and “Boom Boom Pow” by Black Eyed Peas.
Looks like the Wonder Girls are spending their Christmas in New York. They seemed to be in a festive mood, lighting up the Christmas Tree at the JYP headquarters in New York City.
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