Happy 20th Xiah~ (21 in Korea, lol)
The five member idol group Tohoshinki's third single- Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimatandarou- sold 68,000 copies in its first week. This is Tohoshinki's third consecutive #1 single on the weekly charts, making them the first group to achieve this.
Tohoshinki's singles- Purple Line (1/28) and Beautiful You (5/5) and lastly Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimatandarou attained 1st place on the weekly charts. They are the first foreign group to achieve this feat. The last two groups who held the record were Ame no gyodo(?- sorry, not a native speaker) in 1971/72 and Ravisu Ova in 1984 whom each had two consecutive #1 weekly singles.
Tohoshinki, the male idol group, debuted in February 2004. The five members are Yunho, Jaejoong, Yoochun, Changmin, and Junsu. They debuted in Japan in April 2005 with their single, Stay with me Tonight.
Credits: mkalis12@DBSK's Soompi Thread.
SHDAGDHFGDD. I WANT TO SEE THE COVER FOR THE NEW ONE. I can't wait u_uMe, too. I'm so anxious of the new album.
DBSK will not be attending any of the End of the Year BIg Gayo DaeJun (WAR) Programs for KBS MBC SBS.
The 4th Album "MIROTIC" released in September has hit 500,000 album sales and has proved DBSK's power once again as the BEst Idols in Korea, but it will be difficult to see DBSK at this years Big Three GAYO ceremonies.
DBSK's SM Ent. has said over interview " 29 through the 30th DBSK will be in Japan for the award ceremonies there and will be difficult to be able to make it for the Live GAYO ceremonies in Korea.
The BIG 3 end of the Year GAYO DaeJUns will take place on the 29th for SBS, 30th for KBS, and 31st for MBC. It's impossible for DBSK to make it to any of them.
IN contrast DBSK will be away in Japan those days for the Dec- 29th ( i dont the name in japanese) White-Red ?? ceremony.. Since it's DBSK's first time it will be exciting for DBSK.
on the 30th DBSk will attend Japan Record Awards as a nominee.
TVXQ's fourth album has broken their sales record with 460,000 copies, taking the throne for CD sales. TVXQ's company announced on the 4th that the fourth album "Mirotic" had broken 460,000 copies. According to information provided by SM until 11-30, online sales had reached 163,346 copies, while offline sales had reached 303,468 copies, making total sales 466,814 copies.
This year's highest record sales by TVXQ is one that no one can catch up to, proving once again their power continued from 2006, when they took the highest CD sale records for the second time.
The 300,000 copies of their fourth album preorders were not just from Korea, but also from Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and other such Asian countries, taking over CD sales charts and showing TVXQ's power. TVXQ said, "Receiving everyone's love after coming back with another album in 1 year and 7 months is something we're really happy for. Right now we want to thank everyone who's supported us."
Translation: jae!fany @ Shinki! Forums (http://iscreamshinki.net)
Source: TVXQ Baidu Bar + My Daily News + Mr. TVXQ
About Super Junior’s “U” being plagiarized
Questions have been raised about Super Junior’s song “U” being plagiarized by a Spanish music group. Super Junior fans posted an accusation of plagiarism against Adriel’s “Solo un Segundo,” claiming that the Spanish song is an exact copy of “U.”
However, Super Junior’s representative SM Entertainment refuted the claim by saying that although Super Junior has the right to use the music in Asia, Adriel is the one with the European right to the music. “U” was composed jointly by Swedish composer Ken Ingwersen and British musician Kevin Simm.
Similar accusations flared up with TVXQ’s “Mirotic” last year. The song composed by two American composers was given to both TVXQ and German singer Sarah Connor, causing misunderstanding among TVXQ fans. Music industry insiders explained that it’s become commonplace for foreign composers to license the same song for different musicians in different regions. They also advised Korean fans to keep pace with the changes in the music licensing and publishing field.
source: seoulfull
credit: KBS Global + asianfanatics
pic credit: Newsen
With the court agreeing on the injunction sent by the 3 members of TVXQ, the trio had the power to look at SM Entertainment's contract for the members. It was shockingly unfair and against public policy. The three members who stood up for themselves (Kim Junsu, Kim Jaejoong, and Park Yoochun) have the court on their side and are now proceeding with their main lawsuit, which is to get the shares and income that they deserve from their activities in the past 6 years.
Below is what the court has presented as the content of the members' contracts. The contract has been modified 5 times since their debut, so this is the overall review.
1. TVXQ has received $0 from their album sales till July 2008, and a very small amount after.
Before the fifth modification that the company made with their contract, it stated that the profit from albums and singles with sales less than 500,000 copies would go 100% to SM Entertainment, which left the members with nothing. There has been no Korean album that have exceeded 500,000 album sales between the time of TVXQ's debut and their 4th album Mirotic, which was the first album in Korea to sell over 500,000 albums for a long time.
On July 1 2008, the company changed the contract so each member would get 1% from album sales that exceeded 200,000 copies. For albums that are below that number, they are paid 0.6% to nothing. Through these terms, TVXQ has not earned a single cent since February 2009.
2. TVXQ has received $0 from sales of concert DVD's and albums with recordings from concerts.
The contract stated that the members are not entitled to get any profit from concert DVD's and "live" albums.
3. TVXQ received $0 from their appearances in TV programs.
In the contract, the members do not have a right to receive the shares made from appearances on television programs if they are featured in only one episode or if their appearance is temporary. SM has kept all the profit from TV shows where TVXQ were guests.
4. For other ways of getting profit, SM subtracts the total amount with all the expenses that the company has paid for them, including clothing, salary of company staff, stage preparation, rent, food expenses, and etc., which only leaves a fraction for the members of TVXQ.
As for all other sources of income, the contract says that the members do not get the full "net income", but only get a percentage of it. The contract states that the "net income" is the profit remaining after deducting their operating costs, which is the money that the company spends on them. The operating costs include expenses that are to be covered by the employer, such as salaries of the staff (manager, clothing coordinators, makeup artists, dance coordinators, back dancers, etc.), performance stages, living expenses which include water and electricity bills, travel expenses which include plane tickets, and meal expenses. The company might add something in addition to deduct more from the net income.
In conclusion, TVXQ actually received anywhere from 1% to 5% from all of their activities, which depending on how you look at it can still add up to 7 figures or more but still many consider this to be unfair.
In the morning of March 13th, South Korean media reported that the past two-year deficits for Korea's SM Entertainment company reached around to 1.62 billion won for the year 2008.And you know the budgets belt is starting to be tightened when most of SM's recent MVs have been about on the same level as Shouganai's PV. It was like a slap in the face when I realized that SM uses "the H!P formula" as well, with "dance shot, closeups, random scenes that could be story", just with higher-budget sets and costumes. But it looks like the gap from UFA is closing, and when you look at the MVs for, say, BEG, that is really not a good thing.
According to reports, SM's profits from TVXQ, Super Junior and Girls' Generation net grossed 43.4 billion won. Despite this, there is still a deficit of 1.6 billion for the year.
However, profits for SM in 2008 has grown 30% compared to 2007, but because of BoA's entry into the American market, and because most of SM artists are groups, each event required much more travel/transportation fees and personal management fees than usual. Therefore, despite there was a higher revenue in 2008, SM still reported a deficit year-end.
Lawyers of SM Entertainment said:
"The court's ruling for TVXQ is not fair. They didn't consider the main reasons of the case. Their long contract is so that we can let them grow and have a long term deal with them. We want to look at their career in the long run and the court's decision is not letting us do that. This is going to affect TVXQ's international promotions. It'll also create confusion for stars that want to have long term contracts and move on to bigger things later in their careers and for the companies that want to nurture talented people for a longer time. Not only that, it'll have some unwanted consequences on exports of Korean music as well as other issues."
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"Each year, we adjusted the contracts in favor of the members. Before this problem, the three members never complained about anything. Now that they have succeeded this much, they are complaining. They have just started to reach the top and now want to separate. Before a final decision is made, the three can do their personal and individual work. However, this does not grant the three members any rights as part of TVXQ."
Because of all this, TVXQ has not been able to work and SM Entertainment will seek to receive compensation for damages during the time that TVXQ has been inactive.
Source: The Star Chosun