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Date: 2013-01-31 12:41 am (UTC)Another question, though, is what will happen to Korea when other countries start competing? Right now, there's no real competition for Hallyu, at least that I know of. But what about when other countries start producing music that sounds like K-pop? Korea seems to do a good job of patrolling its own borders, exporting music but not importing. (I assume that foreign acts like LMFAO and Carly Rae Jepsen and Maroon 5 and Michael Bublé do well under the radar, rarely getting higher than 40 or 50 on the Gaon chart, an occasional track getting as high as 25 or so for a week or two, but unlike K-pop tracks, hanging on for months and months.)
And what happens when Scandinavia and Germany and Disney start aiming acts at Southeast Asia? I don't know if back in the day Boney M and M2M were accidents, or if there was a serious marketing campaign aimed at Asia. Nor do I know what European acts are big in Asia right now. Haven't been following this.**
*Btw, my understanding or misunderstanding of what Google was doing over the past several years with YouTube was that they grabbed the market for visual streams without particularly trying to make money at it, the goal being to make sure that no one else got the market. Maybe kinda by accident K-pop is doing something loosely analogous in North America and Europe: not cornering a market, but creating a significant fanbase on YouTube etc., even while not getting much money from that fanbase, beyond live shows.
**I remember Michael Freedberg telling me that later Boney M material had a higher pitch sound to appeal more to the burgeoning Asian market, though I haven't really listened hard, comparatively, to see if this is right, if Boonoonoonoos and Ten Thousand Lightyears has a higher pitch or more brilliant sound than Love For Sale and Nightflight To Venus. My guess is, if this theory holds, the turning point would be "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday." I think I'm just babbling now.