BEAST to release three singles before making their comeback in Korea + Cube Entertainment's new boy group

On December 26th, it was announced that BEAST would be beginning their world tour in February of 2012. Cube Entertainment also released the first teaser for the concerts in Seoul on February 4th and 5th at the Olympic Stadium. The teaser featured Yoseob and revealed information such as where the tickets will be sold and when.

Cube Entertainment held a press conference on December 26th at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul and revealed BEAST's future plans. In addition to the announcement of the "BEAUTIFUL SHOW" world tour, it was also announced that BEAST would be releasing new tracks as well.

CEO Hong Seungsung stated at the press conference, "BEAST will release three singles between February and April. The first release, in February will be a ballad track, March's song will be hip-hop track, and April's track will be a medium tempo dance track. Around late April or early May, BEAST will be making their Korean comeback."

Additionally, Cube Entertainment revealed more information on their upcoming boy group. The group is scheduled to have seven members total. They will make their debut somewhere between late January and the middle of February. CEO Hong Seungsung stated, "Five of the members are on jTBC's 'Cheongdamdong Live' with Jo Kwanwoo. The other two members are practicing and recording tracks."

What do you think about BEAST's upcoming releases and "BEAUTIFUL SHOW' World Tour? Are you excited for Cube Entertainment's new boy group to debut?

Source: The Star

cr: koreaboo.com

Jay Park to release new single this week

Singer Jay Park will be kicking off his comeback with a release of his new album.

On October 31st, according to his agency SidusHQ, "Jay Park will be releasing new digital single titled 'Girl Friend' on the midnight of November 2nd. The song will be his first released after seven months following his mini-album 'TAKE A DEEPER LOOK' last April."

The album "Girl Friend" is both written and composed by Jay Park himself. It will carry an R&B tune with a storyline of a man confessing his unchanging love for a woman.

His first teaser video will be released tonight, while his first comeback performance will kick off at the "2011 Style Icon Awards" which will be held on November 3rd.

Meanwhile, Jay Park recently headed to the Philippines for "MTV Exit Live in Manila". The concert is a part of the movement to end human exploitation and trafficking, the world's third largest criminal industry.

Source: 10asia
Written by: jhezwafu @dkpopnews.net

F.cuz Release a New Japanese Single!

The Korean boys group F.CUZ (focus) will be releasing their second single “LUV HOLIC / AROUND YOU” on the 14th of December.

For the new songs they’ve been working with famous producers such as DJ Deckstream to make original Japanese songs which suits their new start after losing a member.

F.CUZ announced that LeeU (Lee Seunghyun) would be leaving during an announcement made on the 21st of May this year (2011). For this production they recorded as 3 members, Jinon, Kan and Yejun.

For having model looks and for having all their members be over 180cm tall F.CUZ gained attention in Korea even before their debut and were named “Model-dols” (Model+idol) and gained lots of interests from netizens. The name F.CUZ comes from the idea of wanting to focus/show off on the members individual personalities and looks.

While preparing for a new comeback in Korea together with new member(s), they’ll do activities in Japan as a 3 member unit.

And the first production for the new lineup of F.CUZ will be the double-sided single “LUV HOLIC / AROUND YOU”. They’ve been working with Korean hit maker “Rhymer” for “LUV HOLIC”. He also made their previous single “Never Let You Go”.

The first song “AROUND YOU” is produced by DJ Deckstream who’s worked with m-flo, SOUL’dOUT, SEAMO and foreign artists such as Mos Def, T-Boz (TLC). The limited edition of the single comes with a DVD containing the PVs to both songs.

Tracklist;

LUV HOLIC / AROUND YOU (double-sided single)
Release date: Dec 14, 2011

[Limited Edition] CD + DVD
Price: 1680 yen
[CD]
1. LUV HOLIC
2. AROUND YOU
3. LOV HOLIC (inst.)
4. AROUND YOU (inst.)

[DVD]
1. LUV HOLIC (PV)
2. AROUND YOU (PV)

[Regular Edition] CD
Price: 1260 yen
[CD]
1. LUV HOLIC
2. AROUND YOU
3. LOV HOLIC (inst.)
4. AROUND YOU (inst.)

© barks.jp
© trans: focuzed translations

BEAST, within their Korean comeback releasing their second Japanese single

6 member boy group BEAST will be releasing their second Japanese single.

On the 19th, Cube Entertainment announced that BEAST's second single-album (T/N: an album with different versions of the same song) 'Bad Girl' will be released on June 15th. Last March, they released 'Shock' and this will be the second Japanese single following that.

Last November, BEAST had kicked off their Japanese promotions with their first showcase. Their Japan debut single 'Shock' sold 29,000 copies in just a week and reached 2nd on Oricon Weekly charts.

On the 13th, they had an event commemorating the release of the 'Shock' single. They had visited Tokyo and had a 'High Touch Event' with some 8000 people in order to give back to fans who had bought their album. On the 15th, they went to Osaka and greeted about 6000 fans with high fives.

From the company's side, they have decided to take a cautious stance regarding future Japanese plans. They plan to focus on Korean activities during June having released their first full length album in Korea.

A representative stated "For now, we won't be actively promoting in Japan but this July when they will be having their Asia Tour, they will be able to meet Japanese fans through fanmeetings."

Meanwhile, BEAST released their first full length album on the 17th and will have their first stage on MNet's 'M -Countdown" on the 19th. BEAST is currently having a contest for the name of the dance in their comeback and title song 'Fiction.'

CREDITS: Star News (SOURCE); purpleumbrella@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

YG-Life Notice: Update about the single, Lonely, mini album to be released in June

On May 12th at 12AM, 2NE1's new song, Lonely, will be released along with the music video. The song is a pop slow song composed of string instruments only, such as guitars, and bass. 

A while ago, Will.I.Am who had visited the YG Building had heard "Lonely" and had commented "I thought that a drum beat was going to come out, and I waited it for it, but until the end it never came. I thought that was quite fresh.", "It seems like it'll be a huge hit."

The reason that Will.I.Am had said it was fresh, was probably because 2NE1's new song, coming back after so long, was different from what everyone had expected. Not the fast, powerful electronica music that has become the trend these days, nor was it a house genre. 

It's a 100% analogue slow song that carries ones' emotions. It also seems he had said that because there was absolutely no use of this so called "autotune".

I think that the reason that he said that he "felt like it'd be a hit" was because of the addictive melody that repeats "Lonely.. Lonely.. Lonely.."

Lonely was composed by the same producer responsible for 2NE1's hit songs, Fire, I Don't Care, Can't Nobody, Go Away, and Park Bom's Don't Cry which was released not too long ago. You can probably guess from the title alone, that the lyrics express the loneliness and solitude of love, however an interesting reversal is that they talk about being lonely even when next to the one you love.

Lonely's Promotion Plans..

We are very apologetic to all the 2NE1 fans, however, we are not planning to do broadcast activities for Lonely.
The reason is that we want to start 2NE1's broadcast activities with a song that is possible to be performed on stage.

We beg understanding for this and we plan on showing the live session of Park Bom's Don't Cry on YG ON AIR this week. Next Friday, we plan on showing the 2NE1 live session of "Lonely".

Like mentioned last time, the next new 2NE1 song will be in 3 weeks on June the 2nd. We plan on releasing 2NE1's mini album in 6 weeks on June 23rd. 

We hope that everyone will anticipate and support 2NE1's new song after 8 months, "Lonely".

Source: http://yg-life.com
Translated by GEE @ ygladies.com

4Minute will be featured on Thelma Aoyama's upcoming single,

A rising Japanese artist, Thelma Aoyama, will be collaborating with 4Minute on her upcoming single for her title track officially entitled as "Without U."

This will be released this coming May and was announced to be released on different Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and many more. The Asian Edition of the said album would have an English version of the song where 4Minute will be featured in.

On the other hand, the song: "Fallen Angel" was composed by a popular Korean composer, Brave Brothers, who also worked with various KPOP artists such as After School, UKISS, Brown Eyed Girls and Big Bang.

Meanwhile, here's the official tracklist for her single:

Japanese Edition.: (comes into different versions)

1. Intro

2.WITHOUT U feat. 4Minute

3.Fallen Angel

4.my sweetest sin

5.WITHOUT U feat. 4Minute (Instrumental)

Asian Edition

1. Intro
2. WITHOUT U feat. 4Minute (English Ver.)
3. Fallen Angel (English Ver.)
4. My sweetest sin
5. I have close / Aoyama Thelma feat. SoulJa
6. Secret Life / Aisa [Da Mouth] feat. Thelma Aoyama
7. WITHOUT U feat. 4Minute (Instrumental)

BONUS TRACK
8. Forever.

Source: Universal Music-Japan + 4Minute Japan Official Site
Reporting + Translating + Editing: ashleylovesasia@4-minute.com
Special thanks to cmrs14 for the tip

Big Bang Activities Suspension? Laying aside "Tonight" and selling a 4.5th album at the start of April

Idol Group Big Bang will be coming back with a 4.5th album.

Immediately after Big Bang's comeback in 2 years and 3 months, they swept all the number 1 spots on Cable and Satellite Music Programmes with the title song "Tonight" of their 4th mini album, displaying their potential.

Big Bang, who have had a tiring succession of activities with their song "Tonight" conquering all the number one spots, expressed that they will now, instead of continuously having music activities, be starting new activities in the first week of April with a 4.5th album.

On the 25th, a representative from Big Bang's agency YG Entertainment spoke with Newsen on the phone, "Adding 4 new songs to the current songs in Big Bang's 4th album, they plan to find the fans with a 4.5th album. The title song has not been decided on yet."

There are a total of 6 songs in Big Bang's 4th mini album, "Tonight", "INTRO (THANK YOU & YOU)", "Hands Up", "Somebody To Love", "CAFE", "What is Right".

Meanwhile, G-Dragon's daring smashing of the guitar on their performance stage of "Tonight" everytime has become a topic for discussion.

Source: Newsen

Translated by christabel88 @ bigbangupdates

4minute reveals “WHY” album covers + tracklists + changed release date

Via tokyohive:

4minute announced the release of their first Japanese single of 2011, “WHY“, just under two weeks ago, and a little while after that announcement, they revealed a 45-second preview of the track.

Just recently, the group revealed the album covers and tracklists for the three versions of the single.  As previously covered, it will come in two limited editions and one normal edition. The limited editions (A & B) will contain a DVD with some combination of a PV, behind-the-scenes footage, live footage, and a trading card. The normal edition (C) will just come with a trading card, of which there are five possible to collect.

Also of note is that “WHY” will now be released on March 9th, which is a change from March 2nd, though no reason was given.

Check out the covers and tracklists below!

BEAST, Japan debut single 'Shock' explosive reaction

Japan's reaction to group BEAST is extraordinary.

The moment BEAST released Japan debut single 'Shock' in Japanese version, it was ranked on 1st and 2nd on album reservation chart. On January 25th, BEAST's album was ranked 1st,2nd,8th and 9th on album reservation chart for Tower Record JAPAN. BEAST's DVD, 'SO, BEAST-THE CLIPS', expected to be released on March 2nd, was ranked 5th. BEAST is receiving an explosive reaction even before debuting.

Japan's record officials have stated that "It is an extradordinary thing for a debut album to be ranked so high in the chart" and predicted that "They are going to be the leaders of boy group fever within Japan".

Koo Hyungnyu editor

CREDITS: FNN (SOURCE); SweetVoiceYS@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

GD&TOP's rankings on Mnet weekly Album and Singles charts

GD&TOP's album peaked at #1 on the Mnet weekly album chart while 5 tracks from the album
made their ways into the Mnet Weekly Singles chart. Congratulations guys!

source : asiae 

shared by Big Bang Haven

Additional details on B2ST’S Dongwoon, Davichi’s Kang Min Kyung “Udon” duet

B2ST’s maknae member Dongwoon will be collaborating with Davichi’s Kang Min Kyung for a duet.
Titled “Udon“, the song will be the newest addition to the series of lighthearted tracks - SNSD’s Jessica and Park Myung Soo’s “Naeng Myun” as well as Kara’s Nicole and Park Myung Soo’s “Whale” were big hits earlier this summer due to its fun appeal. Indeed, “Udon” was originally produced for Park Myung Soo and Brown Eyed Girl’s Ga-In, but due to scheduling conflicts, the track was passed onto Dongwoon and Kim Min Kyung instead.

For the music video of “Udon” actor Lee Jang Woo has signed on to play a man who eats udon for the first time because of his girlfriend, and ends up loving it.

The duet single will be released on December 17th, so stay tuned! In the meantime, take a step back and enjoy “Naeng Myun” and “Whale”.


“Naeng Myun”


“Whale”


Source + Photo: Newsen via Allkpop

Girls' Generation confirmed to release 3rd Japanese single in February

Picked as one of the favourite tracks by Japanese fans from their Korean releases, SM Entertainment has finally confirmed Girls' Generation's third Japanese single. According to a representative, the group will be releasing the Japanese version of their Korean hit 'Oh!'.

This was reported to be the company's response after their local fans in Japan has been doing cosplays and covers of the group's Korean single. However, prior to this release, Girls' Generation will first release the Japanese edition of their mini album 'Hoot' on the 22nd of December and will also be joining their company for the ‘SM Town Live World Tour’ in Tokyo in January.

Already conquering Japan's Oricon Daily Rankings, the group's third Japanese single 'Oh!' is confirmed to be released on the 2nd of January.

Source: Sports Donga and Fanwonder
Credit: K!