Top of the Charts for August 2011 Week 1 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for July 2011 Week 3 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for July 2011 Week 1 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for June 2011 Week 4 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for June 2011 Week 3 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for June 2011 Week 2 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for June 2011 Week 1 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to. If I have an existing review for any of the songs in the countdown, I'll be posting a link so you can read through my post in case you've missed it! 

Top of the Charts for May Week 3 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to.

Top of the Charts for May Week 2 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Yes... I am now permanently featuring both the Gaon and Soompi charts in my blog. Both charts have differing points of view, and it's always good to have more references on hand to check on the top of the top in Kpop-dom.

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to.

Top of the Charts for May Week 2 (The Gaon Chart courtesy of KPNET4)

Here are the top songs of the week from the Gaon chart as compiled by KPNET4. Please visit the Gaon website for more details on the Gaon chart, and please subscribe to KPNET4 --- that is guy is one hard working vid compiler! 

Gaon.com --- click here

KPNET4 --- click here

Top of the Charts for May Week 1 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (http://www.soompi.com/) 

NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to.

Top of the Charts for April Week 5 (The Gaon Chart courtesy of KPNET4)

I'm doing something different this week for the weekly Kpop countdown. This time I'm featuring a vid that's usually posted by my favorite countdown channel on YouTube --- KPNET4 (to subscribe to his page, click here). What sets his countdown vids differently from others is that he painstakingly edits video's together, and indicates movement week per week along the chart.

KPNET4 uses the Gaon chart as a reference for his (or her... not really sure who he/she is) weekly posts. Here's a little background on the Gaon chart from Wikipedia.com...

"The Gaon Chart is the national record chart of South Korea, similar to the Billboard charts...

The Gaon Chart originally started in 2009 for monthly top single sales, it has expanded to contain weekly single and album sales. It is run by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism after one year of work.^[1] The charts are released each Friday...

Physical album sales from LOEN Entertainment, SM Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music, and Mnet Media are synthesized in the album chart. All music sales except physical sales is estimated by digital chart. The digital chart is the combination of the mobile chart and the online chart. The mobile chart estimates the best selling ringtones, while the online chart calculates downloads and bgm sales as well as streaming services. All charts are offered monthly and weekly.^[2] "

Website - http://www.gaonchart.co.kr/

Top of the Charts for April Week 4 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (www.soompi.com) 


NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to.

AND OUR TOP 10 IS....

And the girls of f(x) are back!

It's been a week more or less since I've last posted since I've been preoccupied with a class that I've been handling since early April. Apart from that, it's Lent (if you're Catholic, you'd know that it's an important time of the year).


It's been an interesting time too for Kpop, considering that we've been bombarded with a whole lot of group debuts and comebacks. Lots of good music coming out of the woodwork... sadly, I don't have that much time on my hands to review every single thing that comes under my radar. There are days when I wish that someone could just pay me for blogging all the stuff that I'm into... hahaha! Wishful thinking, right?


To make up for the lack of content this past week, I've decided to do a coup... three reviews for two interesting groups that have recently earned my interest --- f(x), and B1A4. I'll be posting my review for f(x)'s new album "Pinocchio" first... I'll try my best to post my review for B1A4 before I go to work tomorrow!


~ D

The lovely ladies of f(x) --- Amber, Krystal, Sulli, Victoria and Luna

Although they've been around since 2009, these gals have been on hiatus for an entire year. I first encountered f(x) when I was watching one of my favorite reality shows - "We Got Married". Nickhun of 2PM is a personal fave of mine (who doesn't like him, right? hahaha!), and he was paired off with Victoria of f(x). That got me googling to check out who Nickhun was paired off with, and I found out about the five incredibly lush ladies that make up this group.

In an industry dominated by cheeky, sugary electro-pop cheese that Kpop songs are known for (which, trust me, isn't an entirely bad thing hahaha!), f(x) brings a refreshing take of Kpop fare that isn't overloaded with too much vomit-inducing "aegyo" (cuteness). Their first full-blown album, "Pinocchio", is a very good example of that.

Top of the Charts for April Week 3 (courtesy of Soompi.com)

Here are the top songs of the week, folks... courtesy of Soompi.com (www.soompi.com) 


NOTE: A vid featuring a sampler of the top 50 songs are at the bottom of the post. The time tracks for where the songs are featured in the vid is indicated in the list below... just in case you want to skip to a song you're interested in listening to.

AND OUR TOP 10 IS....

[00:00] 001 CN Blue - Intuition

[00:35] 002 Kim Tae Woo - Echo

[01:10] 003 K.Will - Heart Is Beating

 
[01:41] 004 Wheesung - Story of a Cold Heart

 
[02:21] 005 Girl's Day - Twinkle Twinkle

 
[03:01] 006 Yangpa - It Hurts

 
[03:31] 007 Infinite - Nothing's Over

 
[04:04] 008 Clover - La Vida Loca

 
[04:34] 009 4 minute - Mirror Mirror

[05:06] 010 Orange Caramel - Bangkok City

Runners up in the race to the top...

[05:38] 011 U-Kiss - 0330 

[06:08] 012 DBSG - Before U Go 

[06:44] 013 UV - Itaewon Freedom (feat. JYP) 

[07:14] 014 Seo In Kook - Broken 

[07:52] 015 Lee Hyun - You Are The Best Of My Life 

[08:22] 016 Song Ji Eun (Secret) - Are You Crazy 

[09:04] 017 Big Bang - Tonight 

[09:46] 018 Jung In - Rainy Season 

[10:20] 019 Kim Greem - This Is Only You 

[10:50] 020 Rainbow - To Me 

[11:20] 021 Jung Yup - Nothing Wrong 

[11:57] 022 Kan Mi Yeon - Paparazzi (feat. Eric) 

[12:27] 023 ZE A - Here I Am 

[13:03] 024 Boo Hwal - If Then Was Now 

[13:35] 025 Chi-Chi - Don't Play Around 

[14:05] 026 Tony An - Top Star 

[14:35] 027 I.U - Story Only I Didn't Know 

[15:05] 028 Maya - Hurt, Sad 

[15:35] 029 Jang Jae In - That Place 

[16:05] 030 Brian - Love, It's Over Now 

[16:53] 031 G.na - Black & White 

[17:26] 032 Hyun Bin - You I Can't Have 

[18:11] 033 J-Cera - Love You Whenever 

[18:41] 034 Narsha - Woman I Know 

[19:11] 035 M4 - My Love 

[19:46] 036 Han Groo - My Boy 

[20:27] 037 Lee Sun Jung Band - Break The Wall 

[20:57] 038 Dalmatian - That Man Is The Opposite 

[21:43] 039 SG Wannabe - Only 

[22:26] 040 Gummy - I Want To Wait 

[22:58] 041 Kim Ji Soo - Chocolate Drive 

[23:35] 042 Turtles - Aigoo 

[24:20] 043 Rania - Dr Feel Good (English ver ) 

[24:50] 044 Mighty Mouth - Tok Tok 

[25:20] 045 Han Kyung Il - Talk That's Simple For You But Complicated For Me 

[26:09] 046 Kim Hyung Joon (SS501) - oH! aH! 

[26:44] 047 Monday Kiz & Gavy NJ - Love Is The Same 

[27:29] 048 Super Junior M - Perfection 

[27:59] 049 M To M - Trash Like This 

[28:35] 050 Lim Jung hee - If I Can Turn Back Time