Day 10, December, 2014 (The Winter’s Tale) by EXO

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Let’s continue with some soft tunes. EXO annually contributes to the K-pop Christmas playlist almost since their debut. 2014, however, their track seemed a little forced and not well planned. The explanation is easy: it was not a good year for EXO. Even though they still managed to be on top of music charts and on awardshows, they struggled hard because their musical achievment reflected the groups’ internal damage. Two band member quit the group, one during their promotions for their new album and first concert tour EXOPLANET #1 – The Lost Planet. As a result their was no repackaged album version and the energy was put into a brilliant live performance

K-Pop History on Award Show MAMA 2016

One of the biggest end-of-the-year awarding shows and most meaningful trophy for Korean artists is MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Award). Every year the work of idol groups and soloists is honored for its outstanding musical achievement by receiving this treasured major award. In 20 fixed categories and special optional ones, awards are passed to the winning artists. The most anticipated awards are the three Grand Prizes (called Daesang) which were introduced in 2006: Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Artist of the Year. The public can vote for the nominated artists in all categories except for Album of the Year – so the awards reflect the public’s opinion on an act. Find the winners list below and watch

Day 21, Miracles in December by EXO

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Christmas K-pop songs don’t always have to be fun, festive or have a simple concept or story line – this is what SM Entertainment proved with EXO‘s Miracles in December. EXO benefits highly from SM Entertainment poring all their money into their development and their staff’s creative mind. Already having two mega hits in 2013 (Wolf and Growl) EXO continued their success with their first winter album Miracles in December with the same named title track which was released with a music video in Korean and Chinese. As in Day 6, Christmas Day not all EXO members are taking part in singing, but only the three main vocalists Baekhyun, Chen and D.O

Day 6, Christmas Day by EXO

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Remeber those happy days when EXO was still a twelve member group? Back then in 2013 EXO released their first winter album Miracles in December and Christmas Day was one title presented on the album, and also performed on music shows next to the main title track (which we maybe find later on this calendar 😉 ). While EXO is still a recently launched group they are maybe the most successful group in K-pop since two to three years. Even though older groups are still highly successful, it is really tough to get past EXO. I thought it would be nice to introduce a less known track in this calendar. Less known to EXO‘s standard: Christmas Day made it to

Winners of MAMA Awards 2015

The Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) 2015 in Hong Kong have just ended and the results are in. BIGBANG rocked the show with winning three major awards: “Song of the Year”, “Artist of the Year” and “Worldwide Favorite Artist” – this makes them winning “Artist of the Year” the third time (2008 and 2012). EXO took home four awards: “Best Male Group”, “Album of the Year”, “Best Asian Style” and “Global Fans’ Choice Male”. It is the third year in a row EXO managed to win the title of “Album fo the Year” and they just debuted in 2012. Find the complete list of winners below. The online K-pop news channel Soompi offers you to watch all MAMA 2015 performances.

K-pop fans can’t pronounce idol names?

I find it fascinating how international fans of K-pop bands still pronounce the names of their favorite members wrongly – although they claim to love them beyond what so ever. Seriously? Have you never bothered looking up how your bias’ name is pronounced? Of course I had difficulties at first too, but I watched one or two videos and listened to how the members called each other and then I had it in a couple of minutes. There is no real excuse for not figuring out their proper names’ pronunciation as YouTube is full of video material of K-pop idols.