Gangnam Style, The Rise [Infographic]
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An infographic by the team at CouponAudit
Gangnam Style just defines the rise of k-pop, and this time has galloped into the US, hurdling over record and record. Psy’s look at the wealth gap in Seoul, South Korea could be over looked by the flashiness and freshness of his musical video, but “Gangnam Style” is more than just an inspirational way of life. Gangnam style has just reached 900,000,000 views on You Tube but what is it? You Tube 100 is a chart of top music videos featured on the website, measuring by the amount of song traffic. The following are current musical videos:
1.Psy
2.Carly Rae Job
3.Justin Bieber
4.One Direction and 5.Katy Peny.
Psy is managed by YG Entertainment and when compared with Universal Music Group, the following are the results: Number of artistes YG has 22 while Universal has 798, and revenue out turn YG has $ 53,276,723 and Universal 5,584,000,000. Psy has set two itunes records for Korean artiste with ‘Gangnam Style’. It is number one in the video music chart and 44th in the US chart thus no other Korean artiste has ever has such much success in the United States. Gangnam Style is fast becoming a rival sensational. It is not only popular on You Tube but it is also being shared on across social networks.On Twitter, it has 1533,170 followers and on Facebook it has 3.8 million likes.
Psy is increasingly becoming popular, especially compared to other top K-pop artistes. Psy with gangnam style ranks first, followed by Girls’ generation’ Oh!, thirdly is 2NE1 I am the best, fourthly is Super Junior with sexy, free single. These are based on views, comments and likes on the official you Tube musical videos.
Gangnam is a very wealthy and affluent district in Seoul, South Korea. When Gangnam is compared tom New York, Gangnam is just 15 square miles compared to New York state which is 47,213 square miles but Gangnam holds 7% of South Korea GDP while New York holds 7.68% of USA GDP despite it being over 3000 times bigger than Gangnam. All of Korea’s biggest and most influential companies have Headquarters there. They include: Hyundai, Samsung and LG. 41% of attendees to prestigious Seoul University come from Gangnam, an area covering just 0.0394% of the entire country. That is the same as if 41% of student at Harvard University can from Manhattan.
Who is Psy? Psy’s real name is Park Jae-Sang. He is a 34year old K-pop rapper from South Korea. 5 facts about Psy are:
1. Psy’s name comes from his first album, ‘psy from psycho world’ (2001).
2. Psy first album gotten him fined for inappropriate content and the second was banned all together.
3. In 2001 he was arrested of possession of Marijuana. 4. He attended Berklee College of music in US is fluent in English.
5. He was outed ‘sacked’ for avoiding mandatory military service.
As this latest K-pop sensational passes, 900,000,000 views are on You Tube. The legacy is far from over US radio stations Kamp in Los Angeles and Rhythmic KDDB Honolulu are playing the song to their listeners while thousands at the latest dodger-giants rode their invisible horses with Psy while ‘gangnam style’ tramples on the record books. Psy is sure to continue riding off into the sunset, however it is only a matter of time before the trend bucks? Oppan gangnam style!
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