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Girls’ Generation picked as best female act by small, local survey

Girls’ Generation was picked as the nations’ favorite female act in a survey conducted by Leespiar Marketing Research Company for the first half of 2012.
The girl band won 26.9 percent of votes while IU (15.3 percent) came in at second and Wonder Girls at third (7.3 percent). The results came out on April 18 and the survey was taken by 1,329 respondents.

In the male segment, Big Bang won first place (18.1 percent) with singer Lee Seung-gi coming in at second (11.3 percent) and 2PM (8.1 percent) at third. Meanwhile, Wonbin was the favorite male actor and Kim Tae-hee was the most preferred actress despite the fact that both stars have been relatively inactive as of late.

SM meets L.A.

SM Entertainment’s hottest groups, Girls’ Generation, TVXQ, SHINee, f(x) and Super Junior are set to perform at a concert in Los Angeles on May 20.
The event, co-hosted by MBC and SM Entertainment, will be held at the Honda Center in Anaheim under the title “MBC Korean Music Wave in L.A.”

MBC made the announcement on April 3 that the performance will be full of dynamic acts by SM’s top performing stars. The program will also be broadcasted on the MBC network. 

The Los Angeles performance is but a portion of the world tour launched by SM Entertainment.

The world tour began in 2008 and the agency has hosted two concerts so far under the banner of “SM Town,” featuring a bill of the aforementioned groups. 
After the Los Angeles performance the K-pop groups will tour Korea and Japan in August and various other locations in Asia. The dates for other venues have yet to be confirmed.

Shinee is Back!

SHINee’s new mini album <Sherlock> 

SHINee’s new song ‘Sherlock’ music video received over a million views on YouTube in a day after its release.

SHINee’s ‘Sherlock’ music video was released on March 22. The music video set a record of receiving 1,454,998 views within two days of its release. The music video was shown to be viewed in not only in Korea, Asia, but also South America, North America and Europe as well proving the groups popularity.

The music video ‘Sherlock’ has been directed by Cho Suhyun who has been working with the group also on ‘Ring Ding Dong’ and TVXQ’s ‘Mirotic.’ The choreography was reported to be worked with world class choreography Tony Testa showing off slick moves. The music video also set in a 1800s like museum has SHINee acting as detectives to work on a case.

The fourth mini-album seems to be receiving a positive response from fans expressing the group has shown a different yet still eye-catching look. The group held a successful comeback stage on Mnet 'M! Countdown' and ranked no. 1 on major online charts as soon as the songs released on March 19.

SHINee will be leaving for Japan after 4 weeks of promotions in Korea and begin their Japan tour kicking off at Marine Messe Fukuoka on April 25. The group also plans to release a full-length album in Korea after wrapping up the promotions in Japan towards the end of the year.