Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
MBLAQ are the latest K-pop group with mediocre sales in Japan to be hyped as the next big thing.
Yawn.
The city of Shibuya experienced much traffic on the 25th around the Tower Records building, as thousands of fans were eager to get their hands on a copy of the new album after its release. The entire first floor of the building was decorated with various photos and posters of MBLAQ, as well as mannequins that were dressed in MBLAQ stage-dance ensembles.
The Japanese press refer to MBLAQ as ‘K-POP Monsters’, highly praising them saying the boys are on a different level from other Korean idol groups and the five members are flipping Japan inside out.
Okay, so I get that I already wrote similar articles about 2NE1 and 2PM, but the Korean and Asian American media keep reporting it, so I feel obligated to keep putting them in check.
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Bottom line: MBLAQ are not a huge factor in Japan.
At most, they are selling about 40-50k this week, which puts them below 2PM’s totals, and I already pointed out that they aren’t ruling Japan either, so the same has to apply here.
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As it stands, MBLAQ is getting beat by a 7-year-old child actress.
Ashida Mana‘s single is currently ahead of MBLAQ’s single on the Oricon daily single ranking chart in 3rd while MBLAQ is in 4th.
So…yeah.
Details on the japanese article that called them monsters? Is it real japanese or some korean japanese faggot or something?
Probably legit or paid for.
Honestly hard to tell because Asian journalism is so sensationalist to begin with.
How I wish I have enough hacking skills under my belt to hack into allkpop. And then when people click on akp articles, they get directed to here instead. A very troll and evil thing to do, but hey, the world of kpop needs reality check.
Thanks, yo.