HyunA Is Red (Top Singles Through Third-Quarter, 2014)

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Distracted, scattershot listening, with some good discoveries nonetheless. Pretty much totally ignored hip-hop, but it kept pushing its way onto this list anyway, either as guest spots or per se. A couple of non-gender-reversible videos by Tahiti and A.Kor. A lot of hard-rocking aggression in my top ten (top twelve if you go down to Future), the

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[koganbot]

Favorite YouTube comment: "This mv shows to us our fathers are working hard nor fired by their company and lifes are hard to live."

The melody sounds familiar. Anyway, I hadn't heard this. Thank you.

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Ah, she did a cover of "What's Wrong With My Age?" which I found fairly ridiculous but somewhat enjoyable; she rather strangely mixed trot with rockabilly/rock 'n' roll rhythms (which isn't unreasonable, given the melody, but for better or worse it came across as a novelty). Her voice is wavery, and I'm not sure what I think of that. I'm more used to LPG's direct vocal attack. But "Cheer Up" is terrific despite the wavers. The melody would make a good theme song for a western, if anyone still made westerns.

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Love Batter was a big hit, she went quiet but has been quite active lately , to me seemingly one of the more famous trot pop stars.

[koganbot]

Seems to me I remember "Love Battery" from when you shared it several years ago. The video is pretty memorable, and the melody is familiar. In any event, a "2014 version" of "Love Battery" is on her new EP, Life Note, which is quite good (also has "2014 versions" of "My Love" and "Boogieman"; and of course it has "Cheer Up").

She seems a lot younger than most trot singers. I wonder if she's the equivalent of Yolanda Perez, a young banda singer from L.A. who hit big about a decade ago, her material seemingly aimed at both young and old.

LPG are relatively young too (in fact the lineup did a complete revamp at the end of last year).

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One of the top 20 popular artists of the year according to Gallup

1. IU (12.9%)
2. Girls' Generation (12.4%)
3. SISTAR (10.8%)
4. EXO (9.4%)
5. Lee Sun Hee (8.4%)
6. Girl's Day (7.9%)
7. Lee Seung Chul (7.8%)
8. Cho Yong Pil (7.2%)
9. B2ST (5.5%)
10. Jang Yoon Jung (5.2%)
11. Ailee (5.1%)
12. A Pink (4.1%)
13. Big Bang (3.8%)
14. Kim Dong Ryul (3.6%)
15. Seo Taiji (3.1%)
16. Kim Bum Soo (3.0%), Sung Si Kyung (3.0%)
18. g.o.d (2.9%)
19. Tae Jin Ah (2.9%)
20. Hong Jin Young (2.6%)

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Interesting how different the Gallup list is from Twitter's:*

In Korea
1. EXO
2. B2ST
3. Infinite
4. Super Junior
5. KARA
6. Block B
7. VIXX
8. Teen Top
9. B1A4
10. Big Bang

Globally
1. EXO
2. Super Junior
3. GOT7
4. SNSD
5. B2ST
6. Infinite
7. 2NE1
8. Big Bang
9. DBSK
10. 2PM

(Notice how dominated by boybands the Twitter list is. And that GOT7 broke bigger internationally than at home [wonder if the Thai member had an impact on that]. And that 2NE1 are bigger internationally than locally too. And that DBSK are still a thing. On Twitter, that is, whose usership is surely not distributed evenly in a number of ways. I've been paying little attention to charts or polls, so had no idea GOT7 had gotten big.)

*Or at least from what someone on Omona The Didn't! says was Twitter's list (they didn't provide a link).

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Interesting, but not too surprising. On twitter or tumblr you'll find the zealous fans, the majority of whom are boy band fans, and are the same fans who make boy bands the dominating force in physical retail.

Curious with Kara in Korea, though.. could some Japan data have contaminated the stats? I just don't see Kara as the hottest girl group topic.

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The more wavery the more traditional