Um, speaking of Crayon Pop — remember them? an idol girlband of the early '10s with very small production and promotion budgets who developed intriguing strategies for standing out — I posted this a couple of hours ago on ilX's K-pop 2013:
Until Apink's "NoNoNo" went to #3 last week, no idol group that had debuted in the last two-and-a-half years, since the beginning of 2011, had put a song in the Top 5. Not B1A4, not EXO (who apparently have in China, but haven't come close in Korea), not Block B, not B.A.P. And I don't mean that no idol groups have gone top 5 with their debuts, but that none of those 2011-and-on idol groups have gone top 5 at all. (With singles, that is. Albums and EPs are a different market.) Some "indie" groups from talent-show hell have hit, some successful ballad singers may be new (I haven't been tracking them), and solo acts Ailee and Lee Hi have gone #1 (though whether they're "idol" is somewhat iffy); but fame only has a limited number of slots, and among the K-pop idol groups, the relative veterans (Classes Of 2007-2010, more or less) have been filling them all.
But if early-in-the-week numbers on the daily and real-time charts hold up over the next six days — we probably won't know for sure until the Thursday after next — there'll soon be another idol group to join Apink in breaking this barrier:
CRAYON POP!
Astonishing. Right now "Bar Bar Bar" is top 5 on all the real-time charts except Monkey3. Is number 2 on mnet.
My predictions had been too pessimistic before; maybe they're too optimistic now. But every time the song seems to have stalled — e.g., it appeared stuck in the low teens three days ago — it's moved forward. Fwiw, it does seem to be slipping from where it was a few hours ago when I wrote that post, but such things are hard to tell. Is #1 on Daum and #2 on Bugs but down to #29 on Naver and #38 on Monkey3 (where it had been #1 this morning).
Crayon Pop played three of the four big K-pop performance TV shows over the weekend (weren't on Music Core), got to do the song full-length on M! Countdown and Music Bank (where it wasn't all lip sync either), were shorter length on Inkigayo but added a second line of dancers, male, though also reverted to sideways hops instead of the double-time piston (maybe the latter is too complicated with two lines, maybe one of Crayon Pop keeps injuring her foot, I don't know).
If you're looking for daily and real-time numbers yourself, go to Instiz and then hover your cursor over the number total to the right of the band name; e.g., 빠빠빠 is number 5 right now (that's its weekly rank, though since we're at the start of the week there's little difference from its weekly and real-time rank), then move right, where the text says "크레용팝," which is "Crayon Pop" in Hangul lettering. Then go right further to the number in the final column (624 right now, but it'll go higher as the week progresses), and that's where you should hover you cursor. The daily (일간) and real-time (실시간) rankings on all the charts that Instiz tracks will appear on a pop up.
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My predictions had been too pessimistic before; maybe they're too optimistic now. But every time the song seems to have stalled — e.g., it appeared stuck in the low teens three days ago — it's moved forward. Fwiw, it does seem to be slipping from where it was a few hours ago when I wrote that post, but such things are hard to tell. Is #1 on Daum and #2 on Bugs but down to #29 on Naver and #38 on Monkey3 (where it had been #1 this morning).
Crayon Pop played three of the four big K-pop performance TV shows over the weekend (weren't on Music Core), got to do the song full-length on M! Countdown and Music Bank (where it wasn't all lip sync either), were shorter length on Inkigayo but added a second line of dancers, male, though also reverted to sideways hops instead of the double-time piston (maybe the latter is too complicated with two lines, maybe one of Crayon Pop keeps injuring her foot, I don't know).
If you're looking for daily and real-time numbers yourself, go to Instiz and then hover your cursor over the number total to the right of the band name; e.g., 빠빠빠 is number 5 right now (that's its weekly rank, though since we're at the start of the week there's little difference from its weekly and real-time rank), then move right, where the text says "크레용팝," which is "Crayon Pop" in Hangul lettering. Then go right further to the number in the final column (624 right now, but it'll go higher as the week progresses), and that's where you should hover you cursor. The daily (일간) and real-time (실시간) rankings on all the charts that Instiz tracks will appear on a pop up.