Numbers Day Continues

[koganbot]

T-ara's "Sexy Love" holds its chart place with its points falling in its second week from 25,414,429 to 23,801,053. That's not a severe drop, given the Gaon List's habit of going from blockbuster to bust rather quickly. E.g., G-Dragon's "그XX," on its week three, falls a whole hunk, from 42,048,638 to 24,038,977. (Above them both we've got soundtrack and talent-show hell.) But "Sexy Love" is far better than "그XX"! (I wish GD had risked exciting his audience with "One Of A Kind.") To put this in ambiguous perspective, Orange Caramel's "Lipstick" has opened with a disappointingly low 20,232,928;* but last July, T-ara's "Day By Day" was up at 39,140,539 for its week two. I was hoping that we'd actually see a rise for "Sexy Love" as people decided, "Hey, it sounds really good, so maybe we don't have to act as if we'll catch cooties from it."

On the albums chart, T-ara's Mirage opens at number 2, one behind F.T. Island and one ahead of Orange Caramel. I presume this is all fan action for Mirage, which is just the previously released Day By Day repackaged with two added tracks, each downloadable for a pittance individually (I presume).

Meanwhile, E.via is up to 100 (rising to 2,760,258 points) in week two of her "Gangnam Style" takeoff, "I Know How To Play A Little." Fwiw, I prefer it to both "Gangnam Style" and "Oppa You're Just My Style."

Watch on YouTube

(The fan vid seems to be what the record company is using to promote it.)

*Disappointing 'cause I like the song and seem unable to grow tired of the "No Speak Americano" beat.

Comments

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Is this really a fanvid? That's cool! It's hilarious, also I kinda like the idea that a cute girl is promoting herself through a video with three dorky guys who only at the very end manage a small flash mob.

[koganbot]

Obviously, it has more money behind it than the average fan vid, and it's posted on the YouTube site of the record label, Dline Art Media. I'm taking "UCC" in the video heading to mean "user-created content" rather than, say, "undepreciated capital cost." The third sentence of the blurb says, "이 영상은 특강 UCC로 유명한 고등학생 이신혁군과 그의 친구들이 만든 신곡의 UCC 동영상 이다," which Google Translate turns into the following mess: "This video is the new song and his friends made ​​a high school student who is hyeokgun special lectures famous as the UCC UCC videos."

[koganbot]

This, in contrast, is not a fan vid:

totally off-topic

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, Frank. Against all precedent I am going to our 40th high school reunion next weekend.

In past years when trying to explain to myself why I wouldn't attend these things I always used to say (among other things) "Nah, the people I'd really want to see would never show up." But it seems to be not so true this time. I'll be thinking of you, though! And talking about you, no doubt.

As part of my preparation for the event (who does homework for a high school for a high school reunion? but I've got myself a reading list here) I have been rereading the What Thing chapter in your book.

- Tom Goodwillie