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  1. The 2016 fight for Melon #1 was between GFriend, who were nobodies, and Twice, JYP's chief act. At first GFriend had the advantage, but Cheer Up became an international hit (Korea and Japan), and Navillera, I might have to say was the beginning of end of GFriend. Fast forward 5 years, GFriend is no more but now another unknown act challenged for the throne. With the help of ex-soldiers in Korea, Rollin challenged the yearly Melon #1 . But .... its new song was,I have to say, not a national hit as expected. It was expected that with the hot summer and the boast created with the new song, Rollin would remain strong during the summer and march on to #1 in the Yearly Melon, robbing KPop's Senior Singer its first and probably only chance for the elusive yearly #1. However, with summer ending, it is unlikely that Rollin will sail past Celebrity for its quest to the yearly #1 Somebody in Korea calculated the date when Rollin will overtake Celebrity in the Melon #1 https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=gaon&no=4512723&s_type=search_subject_memo&s_keyword=롤린&page=1 He ended the list today, because it was expected that Rollin will overtake Celebrity on .. January 05, 2022, meaning it won't go past Celebrity no matter what it does from now. BG will have a comeback late this month, but with autumn coming (and Lee Jieun's song generally doing better in autumn and winter while Bg's songs are mostly geared towards summer), it has become impossible for BG to beat KPop's Senior Singer at Yearly Melon chart.
  2. It might be a bit early for a Grand Prize prediction, but it is unlikely that the current situation is going to change significantly since songs released after August are rarely contenders for Grand Prizes. Before I begin, I must say this: Brave Girls are NOT eligible for Grand Prize for Rollin since Rollin is a 2017 song. ==== As for now, there are only three credible candidates for Grand Prizes, BTS (Butter) IU (Celebrity) and aespa (Next Level). There are now three major grand prizes. Melon All three Categories - BTS The reason is IU has not appeared in Melon for quite a while and is unlikely to do so, and Melon does not like to give prizes to SM acts unless it is really strong. MAMA Artist - BTS Album - BTS Song - it becomes quite iffy. If Lee Jieun shows up there, for the first time she received a Lifetime Achievement Award (which made her a Senior Singer) on 2014 when she was ... 21, she will be given the Song Prize. She might be given the Artist Prize if MAMA feels like it but I don't see it. If she does not show up, I think the Grand Prize will be given to aespa, since it is a SM act, and the first 4th generation act which has a shot at the Grand Prize. If aespa's upcoming album,expected to be released sometime later this year, is good it will probably win unless IU shows up. Golden Disk Album - BTS Digital - aespa IU won this year so she is unlikely to show up again at there. So aespa will probably win the Digital Grand Prize.
  3. She only sold one, the cheapest of her holdings, and still holds on to the infamous property which revealed her real estate savvy and another one she bought for her family members. Lee Jieun earns about $14-16 million a year, with a large profit which she keeps for herself (Estimated to be $9 million in 2017, her peak year). It is easy to keep track since she is the only singer in her company which she effectively owns. (Shin Sekyung, who joined IU's company, brought her own staff so they will be accounted separately) To top that, BTS members should have earned north of $60 million in 2020. After all these cuts Hype took. It is possible with the stock gift, they might have exceeded IU last year.
  4. The fundamental difference between BTS and Lee Jieun is that BTS has to share its earnings with the company then 7 ways while Lee Jieun has to share her earnings with the company, where she is the effective owner, and with no other teammates. Which is why Jungkook lives in a $7 million house and Lee Jieun in a $11.7 million house.
  5. You know his family is very wealthy to begin with. They were worth about $400 million during the height of Gangnam.
  6. It was easy for me. The subject I have talked about the most has bought a mansion which is twice as expensive as what RM and Park Jimin bought
  7. which is why she established Edam , putting her long time manager as the CEO running day to day management
  8. In today's world they can just use proxies to run their company, as Lee Jieun is doing. She acted like Lee Jidong, a character of hers being used when she has to act humble, to welcome the actress Shin Sekhyung.
  9. JYP is technically not the CEO of JYP Entertainment YG is technically not the CEO of YG Entertainment Yoon Jongshin is technically not the CEO of Mystic. Even Hitman Bang Shihyuk gave up the seat of CEO, letting someone else run the day to day operation while he , retaining just the title of Chairman. That is standard in Korean entertainment industry where the CEO is the person meeting the bankers and other company figures, when the chief figure is too busy doing something else. It is unusual that Antenna 's CEO is Yoo Heeyeol, which might be why Antenna is not going anywhere. It is likely that Lee Jieun exchanged her shares in KakaoM with her stake at Edam. She herself competed against the three major companies and Hybe for a long time so she deserves to be in this list
  10. She ran her own division since 2015 ,when she was 22, and she effectively founded her own company on 2020. So that is a true statement.
  11. 27 is not a young age to start an entertainment company, as JYP, YG and IU had shown. Park Jinyoung, Yang Hyunsuk and Lee Jieun beg to differ
  12. There is a rumor that SM is being sold to Kakao, and vice versa (SM will buy some shares of Kakao who will support SM's digital media efforts). The reason there is a rumor that SM is going to be sold is because Lee Sooman is getting older and his sons are young. However, his sons are not that young. His older son was reportedly born in 1994 and wrote lyrics for SNSD (Hoot) and EXO(Let out the beast) . (Not much is known about his younger son) 27 is not a young age. Although Lee Sooman, born in 1952 and founded SM at 1995, was not a young person when he founded his company, other company owners were much younger when they founded their company. Park Jinyoung , born in 1971, founded JYP at 1997 , when he was 26. He immediately debuted a singer named Jinjoo at the same year, and produced Park Jiyoon on the next year. So JYP was already a company when Park Jinyoung would have been the same age with what Lee Sooman's older son now is. Yang Hyunsuk, born 1970, founded YG at 1998, when he was 28. (He already founded a company called Hyun Entertainment at age 26, which was disbanded after Keep Six, a group YG had produced, went nowhere, and started anew on 1998) He had Jinusean under his belt so he was also producing others at the age. Bang Shihyuk, born 1972, founded Big Hit at 2005, when he was still under JYP's thumb. So he was not an old man when he founded his company as well. Someone might say times have changed. However, there is a famous owner who is still active at a young age. Lee Jieun, born 1993, effectively began to run the KakaoM music division herself from 2015, long before she founded Edam Entertainment at the age of 27. (Although Edam is partially owned by Kakao, when JYP started his company it also had a complex ownership with the actors' agency SidusHQ and also cube). Lee Jieun has not produced anyone yet but she began to run an actor's agency this year. So , ignoring birthdays , Lee Sooman is 69, Park Jinyoung is 50, Yang Hyunsuk is 51, Bang Shihyuk is 49 and Lee Jieun is 28. So, there would be no problem for Lee Sooman's sons to run the company, since Park Jinyoung, Yang Hyunsuk and Lee Jieun had founded their companies in their 20s and ran them.
  13. It was the beginning of the end of GFriend. Contending for yearly #1 against Twice, Iggy-Yongbae used one of their older songs at this decisive moment, making it lose to Wonder Girls and ending its dreams to reach the top position of KPop
  14. Edam is effectively owned by IU although Kakao still has its 40%. It appears Lee Jieun has decided producing an idol group is too risky, and go for an easier route. The market is saturated, Hybe, Sm and JYP dominate and newer acts from smaller companies have not too much recourses, including Weeekly (which used to be under IU's company, but was , after a long story, eventually moved to PlayM, Apink's company owned by KakaoM. Since IU saw how Weeekly was developed, had a lot of struggles to debut and now kind of buried by other acts, she has an indirect experience of developing an idol group.) KPop acts are now aiming for spotify, weakening the iron grip of Meon. Parallelism with EXO is difficult since EXO is a different act from 2012-2014 and after that. After the departure of Wu Yifan and Luhan, EXO was never the same.
  15. BTS will rule spotify for a while, but the change has been made . Newer KPop acts now aim for spotify, and Melon has become a junior league. Rollin was the last major song to be big in Melon before it became a league for also rans. Napoleon has no legacy now, but the Duke of Wellington (now the 9th) is still around as seen in this photo with Prince Charles of UK
  16. Her days are numbered in Kore which is why she added Shin Sekyung, an actress, in her company so she would gain income managing other actresses instead of singing .
  17. During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain's iron control of the seas was decisive for the long war against the French Emperor. As long as Bonaparte did not have control of the seas, he had no recourse against whatever England did. Robert Fulton of USA invented the steamship. He offered to sell it to Napoleon but the latter ignored the offer. Later, when Napoleon was being shipped to St. Helena, he saw a steamship and remained silent for the rest of the day. ========= During the great KPop War , which began in 2007, subsided around 2013 and rekindled in 2017, all the Kpop acts had no recourse over IU, whose control of Melon was ironclad. No matter how famous , how successful and how big an act was outside of Korea, inside there they had no control over the Loen/KakaoM singer, who continued to humiliate a Kpop act after another like a child's play. As long as Melon was around Lee Jieun could not be vanquished. Apple Music made an attempt in Korea but it went nowhere because KakaoM did NOT allow singers under its belt to join there. In K-O-R-E-A, Melon was a lot much more equal than other digital music sellers, and Melon's chief singer enjoyed the status enabled by the biggest music seller and chart trend maker. Although Melon lost a lot of credency by turning a blind eye to balladists of dubious quality whose music was liked by very few, its iron control continued. And, because IU was seen defeating one act after another in Korea, i-fans began to have a false sense of importance on Lee Jieun, who never really promoted outside of Korea after the short stint in Japan in 2012-13. But then, Spotify appeared to the scene. While IU had an iron control of Melon, in Spotify BTS, BlackPink, Twice, Stray Kids Red Velvet and others did better than the so called Queen of Korean Digital Music. With everyone playing in the same field, the true status of KPop's Senior Singer was known, and suddenly her iron grip in Korea weakened sgnificantly. Most Streamed K-Pop Artists Globally BTS BLACKPINK TWICE Stray Kids Red Velvet EXO SEVENTEEN IU NCT 127 (G)I-DLE The so called Queen of Korean Digitals scored a whooping #8, showing her grip was not that strong to begin with. In fact it was quite rare for a domesticist to rank that high. In March 2021 Spotify removed all digitals run through KakaoM in Korea and around the world, and KakaoM had to basically unconditionally surrender in March 10, 2021. That broke KakaoM's power, and Lee Jieun's iron grip in Melon suddenly stopped being relevant. So that meant BTS was the digital Emperor of KPop, and IU was an also ran after BlackPink, Twice, Stray Kids, Red Velvet, Exo and Seventeen. The impact of this is huge .... Lee Jieun put the actress Shin Sekyung in Edam, effectively owned by IU, telling the world that Edam will be another actors' agency which means Lee Jieun largely retires from singing. That means the world do not have to worry about IU striking against KPop in 2024-25 when BTS has lost some steam, and recapturing KPop's Initiative and putting everything back to the past as if nothing had happened, something she actually almost succeeded in 2014. Without Spotify, the iron grip of Lee Jieun in Korea might not have broken at all; because BTS had mastered Spotify while Lee Jieun was still stuck in Melon, KPop was finally able to escape from the iron grip of Melon and IU.
  18. IU who became a Senior Singer when MAMA gave her a lifetime achievement award. She (her company Edam is virtually owned by her) added the actress Shin Sekyung to her company, meaning she will emphasize more on the acting side, since BTS is too much of a wall even for her to overcome.
  19. As far as I know, they were Bahai. Bahai is a religion which originated in Persia, a syncretic belief mixing Christianity, Islam and other religions around that neighborhood. Kai says he is a Catholic, since Bahaism is virtually unknown in Korea.
  20. Korea has a presidential election next year, and despite of some candidates being prominent, there is no clear leader yet. So, various politicians are toying with a bunch of ideas. A politician has proposed a law that since BTS performance at the billboard is extraordinary its military service should be exempted. (There is a loophole that winners of some classical , and korean-style traditional music, competitions are exempt from military service.) KPop's Senior Singer , Greatest anachronism and the #1 obstacle against its expansion was waiting for the day when the BTS members' military services began so she could once again climb the throne and lord over all KPop acts. However, if BTS' military services are exempted', they willbe around for a few more years , and the Senior Singer would be in her 30s when their popularity might begin to wane. KPop's Senior Singer probably planned for 2023-2024 to launch the greatest counterstrike against KPop when BTS members are in service, since she probably thinks she can handle all the younger acts, and her general popularity in Korea is still intact. However, things are not going in the direction the Senior Singer prefers, so her last attempt to overturn the initiative and turn KPop in her self-centered, isolationist direction, like what she had pulled off in 2014, would probably not come true thanks to the Korean politicians.
  21. http://www.mediatraffic.de/previous2.htm Here are what the best selling albums of week were for the first half of year. Anyone associated with Kpop is in bold (because there is one person, whose name I don't have to mention, who is technically not part of KPop but is associated to it in this list.) Week 1,2, 16 Taylor Swift 3 Six Tones (Japan) 4, 6, 8 Morgan Wallen 5 Yunho 7. Foo Fighters 9. 10. BTS 11. ATEEZ 12. WayV (China, although run by SM) 13. Justin Bieber (that's before Hybe bought Bieber's agency.) 14. IU 15. Baekhyun 17. Kang Daniel 18. Nu'Est 19. Enhypen 20. Itzy 21. 22. NCT Dream 23. Olivia Rodrigo 24. txt 25. EXO (26 not announced yet but certain to go to Seventeen) So, out of 26 weeks, 14 of them were dominated by Kpop albums! Only Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Foo Fighters and Olivia Rodrigo can be called "Pup". A Japanese and a Chinese act also took one spot each. KPop figures who had the best selling albums of the week by companies Hybe - BTS Nu'est txt Enhypen Seventeen SM - Yunho Baekhyun NCT Dream (WayV) JYP - Itzy KQ Entertainment - Ateez Konnect Entertainment - Kang Daniel, owner-singer Edam Entertainment - IU, effective owner-singer. Fin.
  22. One encouraging thing about aespa is Yoo Youngjin, who was responsible for many SM hits during SM's heyday, is in charge of aespa. He is quite high in SM hierarchy and he will lead aespa in his way, not like other SM acts which grew more distant from general public as time went on
  23. She was not fighting aespa and will bide her time so i have nothing to say about her for now
  24. No. The next SNSD, for the lack of better comparison since F(x) and Red Velvet are hard to compare with aespa
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