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Gangnam Style, Unfortunate Encounter, Invisible Love, Blind Love, Dongbaek Women... Common characteristic about these songs are? They were the icon musics of the era that time.
Firstly, PSY's Gangnam Style made over billions of people in the world do the horse dance in 2012.
Just after 50 days of the music video release, it reached over 1 million views in video streaming sites. It recorded the most view numbers in short times.
Now it's heading toward 20 million view numbers.
Then what kind of musics became Nation's musics when there were no video streaming sites?
How do you think people recognized as Nation's music in the 1990's and before 1990's?
Musics that all people sang? Number of albums sold?
Just one album was sold over 260 million pieces. This album was recorded in Korea's Guinness Book of Records as the album sold the most in short time. Kim Kunmo's 'Unfortunate Encounter'
Repetitive electric melody which captures people's attention from the beginning and realistic lyrics are the factors of this song's popularity.
Also unique appearance of 'Seotaji and Boys''s 'Blind Love' album was sold over 170 million pieces. This was the most biggest number of a singer's first album. He became famous as the Culture President of Korea.
If there are musics that became famous through big numbers of album sales, there are also some musics that became famous through being ranked as 1 through TV music shows for a long time.
This music was arranged a piece for Ich liebe dich of Beethoven's music, a new trial of composition which people have never heard of it before. This song captured the attention of the public and sold ber 158 million pieces
And ranked as 1 on TV music programs for straight 14 weeks. It was recorded in Guinness Book. Shin Seunghoon's Invisible Love.
Psy even could'nt make the ranking 1 for straight 14 weeks. Records are made in order to be beaten but I hope my records remain as it is.
Millionseller album, ranking 1 for straight 14 weeks, there is a mega hit song which summarizes all these factors. That is!
If converted into current situation, her album was sold over 100 million pieces. In 1964 her LP was sold ver 10 miilion pieces, Lee Mija's 'Dongbaek Women' was evaluated as the first million seller music.
She was ranked as 1 for straight 35 weeks in music chart. This song became the matrix of Korea's music industry.
Nation's favorite mega hit songs made music industry vigorously with their amazing album sales.
I hope there would be more mega hit songs in the future.
Wow 35 weeks in a row?? Nonsense! Unbelievable.
Being ranked as 1 for just once makes me flutter. Right now we can't imagine about this.