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Give Me Love (2PM Song)
''Genesis of 2PM'' is the third Japanese studio album (sixth album overall) by South Korean boy band 2PM. It was released on January 29, 2014 as their first album release under Sony Music Japan sublabel Epic Records Japan in three editions:"2PM Official Japan Website - Discography" Sony Music. Retrieved December 31, 2013. Release * Regular edition: CD * Limited Edition A: CD + DVD * Limited Edition B: CD + CD There are nine new tracks in this third Japanese studio album. Tracks from both ''Give Me Love'' and '' Winter Games'' are also included in this album. "Give Me Love" was released on May 29, 2013 in three differe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2014. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2014 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2014 albums Albums 2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allkpop
''Allkpop'' (stylized in all lowercase) is an American website which features Korean pop and gossip news. It is one of the most trafficked K-pop news sites, with over seven and half million readers per month. In its list of useful websites, ''The Korea Herald'' called it the "fastest news breaker" for K-pop. Controversies In 2010, Tablo of Korean hip-hop trio Epik High alleged that allkpop had been sharing pirated links to the group's '' Epilogue'' album, including "a leaked music video of 'Run' and illegal streaming of all our songs" on his personal Twitter account. Tablo has since removed the posts. In 2013, scandal broke out again when solo K-pop artist Ailee's private, nude pictures were leaked with the allkpop logo posted across blurred photos in their coverage. After facing backlash and lost follower counts, allkpop CEO Johnny Noh and staff member Matt Kim posted responses on their respective Twitter accounts. Noh defended the site saying, "it's our job to report on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JYP Entertainment
JYP Entertainment Corporation () is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1997 by Park Jin-young, J. Y. Park. Operating as a record label, talent agency, music production company, event management company, concert production company and music publishing house, it is one of the largest entertainment companies in South Korea. The company also operates subsidiary ventures and divisions internationally. History 1997–99: Formation and first generation K-pop artists JYP Entertainment was founded in 1997 by South Korean singer-songwriter Park Jin-young, named after his stage name, J. Y. Park, as Tae-Hong Planning Corporation. In 2001, the company was retitled as JYP Entertainment. In 1997, the company signed its first artist – Pearl (singer), Pearl. In 1999, entertainment company iHQ (company), SidusHQ introduced the future members of boy band G.o.d to Park, as their producer and me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD). In later years, the technology was adapted for computer data storage as CD-ROM and subsequently expanded into various writable and multimedia formats. , over 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide. Standard CDs have a diameter of and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or which falls outside established specifications. Smaller variants, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwang Chansung
Hwang Chan-sung (, born February 11, 1990), also known mononymously as Chansung, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper and actor. He is a member of the Korean boy band 2PM. He made his debut as an actor in the 2006 comedy series '' Unstoppable High Kick'', and since then has gone on to star in the Japanese drama '' Kaitō Royale'' (2011) and '' 7th Grade Civil Servant'' (2013). Early life Hwang was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, where he still resides. As a child, he had no interest in the performing arts and trained in taekwondo and kumdo with the ambition of becoming a taekwondo instructor. In '' Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education'' he revealed that he holds a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo. He transferred to Korean Arts High School after joining JYP Entertainment and graduated in 2008 alongside Raina of After School and fellow JYP Entertainment trainees Sunye and Jo Kwon. Career Pre-debut Hwang was a television actor, having played roles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichkhun
Nichkhun Buck Horvejkul (; ; born June 24, 1988), better known mononymously as Nichkhun (), is a Thai and American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and model who is currently based in South Korea as a member of the South Korean boy band 2PM. Early life and family Nichkhun was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S. to Thai father and Thai Chinese-American mother, is a dual national of Thailand and the United States. (at 0:48) His maternal grandparents emigrated to Thailand from Hainan, and he has said that he has extended family and distant ancestors from Guangzhou. His mother, Yenjit Horvejkul (née Mekworewut), is the chief executive officer of her family's pharmaceutical business, Union Medical, which imports pharmaceutical products from abroad and is a major government contractor. His wealthy background earned him the nickname "Thai Prince" in South Korea. The second of four children, Nichkhun has an older brother Nichan Bert (born September 11, 1986, California, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jang Wooyoung
Jang Woo-young (; born on April 30, 1989), better known mononymously as Wooyoung, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. In 2008, he debuted as a member of 2PM, a boy band currently managed by JYP Entertainment. He is mainly known for his work in 2PM and his role as Jason in the South Korean drama '' Dream High''. Aside from his work in 2PM, he has hosted SBS' music show ''Inkigayo'' from July 2009 to July 2010 as well as the KBS talk show ''Win Win'' from February to August 2010. He debuted as a solo artist with his first extended play, '' 23, Male, Single,'' in July 2012. He has also composed several songs for 2PM, his solo music, and other artists. Early life Born and raised in Busan, Wooyoung enjoyed dancing from a young age but was forced to hide his interest from his father, who had strongly disapproved of his ambitions to become a dancer due to the lack of job stability. In 2007, he secretly applied for JYP Entertainment's first open audition and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ok Taecyeon
Ok Taec-yeon (; born December 27, 1988), known mononymously as Taecyeon, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. He is the rapper of the South Korean boy band 2PM. In 2010, Ok debuted as an actor in the Korean drama '' Cinderella's Stepsister'' and since then has starred in television series ''Dream High'' (2011), '' Who Are You?'' (2013), '' Wonderful Days'' (2014), '' Assembly'' (2015), '' Let's Fight, Ghost'' (2016), '' Save Me'' (2017), '' The Game: Towards Zero'' (2020), ''Secret Royal Inspector & Joy'' (2021) and ''Vincenzo'' (2021) and '' Heartbeat'' (2023), as well as the movies '' Marriage Blue'' (2013) and ''House of the Disappeared'' (2017). Early life and education Ok Taecyeon was born in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea, but emigrated at the age of 10, with his parents and older sister Jihyen to Boston, Massachusetts,. His sister Jihyen persuaded him to participate in a JYP Entertainment audition, whose promotion she had noticed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baek Ye-rin
Baek Ye-rin (; born June 26, 1997), anglicized as Yerin Baek, is a South Korean singer-songwriter. A former member of South Korean duo 15&, she debuted as a solo artist with her extended play, '' Frank'', in 2015. Baek is credited with writing and composition for the majority of her songs, often touching on personal topics and real-life experiences. In addition to her solo career, she is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for the South Korean rock band The Volunteers and has been performing with them since 2018. Early life Baek Ye-rin was born on June 26, 1997, in Daejeon. Career 2007–2015: Career beginnings and 15& In 2007, Baek appeared on the sixth episode of the SBS variety show '' Amazing Contest Star King'' along Seunghee, a member of the South Korean girl group Oh My Girl. She was labeled as a "10-year-old ballad genius" and performed " I Have Nothing" by Whitney Houston, and won first place. She also appeared on the KBS2 television show ''Yeo Yoo Man Man.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
