Ranking of K-pop streaming on Spotify

 (Long time no see, I took a long COVID break for myself!)

Pann: Ranking of K-pop streaming worldwide on Spotify

1. [+107, -4] Look at the gap between... BTS really is a wall

2. [+88, -2] BTS' Spotify streaming is #19 in history. #1 is Drake and and other artists in top 20 are really popular ones like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, and Eminem. Seeing how BTS is on the ranking as a non-English artist, they're just another level.

3. [+65, -2] BTS is another level.

4. [+30, -0] It's pathetic how some people claim BTS doesn't have a mega hit song.

5. [+20, -1] BTS' Spotify streaming is 623M and the rest of K-pop streaming is 684.18M. BTS and K-pop are separated.

Idol concerts that were planned for this year

Super M - Tokyo Dome

Around 50,000 audience

NCT 127 - North American tour

New York, Atlanta, Chicago, San Hose, LA, Seattle

Around 60,000

Twice - Tour final + Tokyo Dome

Seoul KSPO Dome, Tokyo Dome

Around 120,000

GOT7 - First Stadium concert

Bangkok

Around 110,000

Seventeen - First Japanese Dome tour

Tokyo Dome, Fukuoka, Saitama, Osaka

Around 350,000

BTS - Stadium tour

Seoul, Santa Clara, LA, Dallas, Orlando, Atlanta, New Jersey, Washington, Toronto, Chicago, London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Barcelona

Around 1,300,000

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Pann: Idol concerts that were planned for this year

1. [+174, -9] I was so happy to get a ticket to a BTS concert. I was anxious when covid-19 broke out and then it got cancelled. What the...

2. [+159, -11] F*ck, I thought everything about BTS' concert including the equipment was legendary. That godd*mn corona...

3. [+110, -8] Seventeen's Europe tour, too...

4. [+51, -3] BTS 1.3M? Wow, stadium tour is a different class...

5. [+36, -6] BTS' 4th Jamshil concert was cancelled and the Armies donated the refunded ticket price for covid-19. It was so funny how some Armies donated it to the research of christian cults to fight against Shincheonji ㅋㅋ

6. [+36, -3] BTS though ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

6 blind items released this year (no netizen comments)

- Idol star A, who is gaining popularity for his innocent image, is infamous for his rough, free-spirited private life unlike his image. A is worrying others because he's been obsessed with R-rated films. A is very much into a hard-core genre. A's schedules have been cut short for various reasons. He spends his free time with R-rated contents. A has unusual preferences and his actual attitude is also thoughtless and rough. He doesn't have good reputation from his friends and girlfriends he met after debuting. Because of his preferences, he had a lot of conflicts with his girlfriends as well. But there's no one in his agency who can stop A's unusual preferences, so they can't do anything but sigh. (July 1)

- Singer D, who appeared on an audition program, dated a divorced woman 10 years senior with a child. D was an unknown singer, but he became famous from the audition program. D's girlfriend became afraid that he would leave her, so she's using her son whom D adored to keep contacting him. The son would contact D and say, "Uncle, where are you? Come pick me up." "Uncle, when will we see each other again?" Due to the sympathy D feels for the son, D still can't break up with his girlfriend. People are interested in how D will handle this situation. (June 15)

- Girl group member G, who used to be on every channel, has been out of the eyes of the public for a while. Until a few years ago, G was a very popular idol and she had endless schedules. But G hasn't appeared for a while and made a lot of people curious. The reason why G's TV promotions are stopped is because of a big fight between G's father and her agency's CEO. G's CEO is a fossil of the music industry with a long history of experience. G's father is also an unforgiving "psycho". Both had a huge fight regarding to G's promotions and as a result, G had to stop all of her promotions. Unless her father and her 'agency father' make up, we will never see G's face again. (June 15)

- Actress G is infamous for dominating her celebrity boyfriends' physical and mental completely. Since she was a rookie, she only dated popular male celebrities. There's a famous story of how a hallyu star H jumped into the road when G broke up with him. After getting dumped, H would go to G's agency and go on a diet when G would go on a diet. Another handsome star I even attempted suicide after breaking up with G. A man she's now dating is a close friend of a top star J. Like what she does usually, G is controlling him by dominating his physical and heart. But the problem is that the top star J is also dominated by G and is acting like a fool. Those who don't know well even suspect that G is dating J. What could G's magic be? (May 18)

- Girl group member E is making her agency struggle with her craziness. Unlike other talented, popular members in her group, E is lacking in singing, rapping, and dancing. She's full of inferiority complex. Recently, E put on an insane action at an airport and proved the rumors of her craziness. E was going through immigration with other groups for an international schedule. All of a sudden, she started swearing in the worst way, got bubbles in her mouth, and dropped on the ground. The manager quickly tried to stop E, but he couldn't stop the eyes and the ears of the nearby people. E ended up not getting on the flight and only the rest of the members went to the schedule. (April 28)

- Girl group A's members are taking turns to cause trouble, which worries their agency. They debuted a while ago but every year, they're chosen as a 'rising girl group'. A is an ambiguous group but the members already act like they're world stars. Member B views other members as inferior because she thinks she's on a different level. She also demands for special treatment in every event so she's picked as the 'most cancerous member' by managers. Member C, who is talented in singing but has below-average looks, has also backstabbed the agency multiple times, which increased the blood pressure of the managers. Other members would also agree on a schedule, but once they arrive on the spot, they say they're having panic attacks, collapse on the ground and cry. A's agency says, "We only get CF offers for years. When one is about to be confirmed, one member would collapse and we would have to pause promotions and delay the release date. Because this happens all the time, A will end up disbanding without filming a proper CF." (April 27)

(Source: Newsen via Naver)

New fanclub logos that SM registered

BoA - Jumping BoA

TVXQ - Cassiopeia

Super Junior - ELF

Girls' Generation - Sone

SHINee - SHINee World

EXO - EXO-L

Red Velvet - ReVeLuv

NCT - NCTzen

NCT - NCTzen 127

NCT - NCTzen Dream

WayV - WayZenNi

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Pann: New fanclub logos that SM registered

1. [+369, -1] Am I the only one who's sad that F(x) isn't there? ㅠㅠ

2. [+194, -0] They look like soccer leagues...

3. [+158, -0] They look like they'd be on school uniforms.

4. [+52, -2] Where's the effort for EXO-L's logo... SM, ugh...

5. [+51, -0] What about F(x), you f*cking SM ㅜㅜ

6. [+46, -4] Red Velvet's one is so pretty. SM, please stop with the gray...

7. [+41, -1] Can NCT Dream just recruit their fanclub instead? They never do anything right.

8. [+36, -0] SM needs to get rid of Graysons. They gave us the sh*ttiest one.

Hellos! :)

Hello to all my readers!

It's been a while since I've posted anything on my blog. I checked and the last article was in April, wow!

Admittedly, I've been lazy since COVID-19 struck the world and didn't look up on entertainment news much. It's been a few months and I finally seem to have adopted this new atmosphere.

Also, I've noticed that Naver & now Nate closed off their comment sections for entertainment articles. I assume it'll affect the dynamics of my blogs since most of netizen comments will come from Pann & non-entertainment articles. 

Just posting this post to say hi and to let you know that I'll be back! How have y'all been doing during these crazy times? Feel free to share in comments.

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Blind item of a girl group member who had to take her boyfriend with her

Article: Girl group fool F, staying up all night by making love with her boyfriend she likes so much...

Source: Newsen via Naver

These days, a girl group member F is staying up all night by making love. After many attempts, she succeeded in taking her boyfriend to an international event in the beginning of the year. But on the day of departure, her dumb boyfriend forgot to bring his passport. F kept insisting that she was getting on the plane only if she was going with her boyfriend, causing trouble to her agency. They had to change her flight 13 times, which costed 10 times more than the original cost of $500. Besides, she was late and missed the rehearsal. While the other members were rehearsing, F posted a bunch of exotic pictures on her social media and acted like a 'fool', upsetting the hosts of the event. Because of F, her group was deemed to have 'violated the terms' and did not get full payment of the event.

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Pann: Blind item of a female idol and her boyfriend

1. [+344, -5] What's with the tone of the article, I thought I was on Twitter ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. [+309, -1] If she's able to take her boyfriend and change her flight 13 times, she must be from a very influential group. She might not be a 1st tier but still very popular.

3. [+265, -4] 13 times ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It's so dumb when someone can't separate professional work and private life.

4. [+211, -0] Usually, these idols don't turn out to be the 1st tiers we know ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+172, -1] I don't care who it is but it's so funny how they call her a girl group fool ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I imagine the journalist wrote the article with this -_- face.

6. [+155, -0] The tone of the article is so funny ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+122, -0] If this is true, it's hilarious. That boyfriend was stupid enough to forget his passport and the girl group member is called a "fool" in an article ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

8. [+108, -12] Red Velvet hasn't had promotions since Wendy's injury. Twice doesn't have their own social media. Blackpink seems to be the best guess. But it said they didn't get the full payment of the event, so I don't think this is a world tour. Blackpink didn't participate in idol events like K-cons. I don't think it's any of the three groups.

9. [+80, -1] Wow ㅋㅋㅋㅋ At this rate, she'll be revealed soon.

10. [+72, -3] The article isn't saying that it's a 1st tier group but people seem to think it is ㅋㅋ I don't think it's a 1st tier group. We'll find who it is as long as we dig female idols' Instagram and find who posted a bunch of travel pictures in the beginning of the year.

EXO's composer vents frustration over requests to make EXO-like songs

Some songs written by the composer MZMC:

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Pann: EXO's composer targets other companies

1. [+486, -53] It's true that there's been more universe concepts and storytelling since EXO ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Other companies are really defensive against EXO, avoiding to overlap comebacks with EXO and all.

2. [+410, -30] A lot of groups debuted to compete against EXO... A company's CEO even said he was debuting his group to face EXO in his interview.

3. [+374, -19] I also saw him mentioning this on live. Since Tempo, other companies asked him to compose a song like Tempo.

4. [+195, -5] What's the project that was planned since 2006? EXO! Who's the singer that paid a huge amount of money to NASA and got a photo for their fandom site? EXO! Who's the group that makes you obsessed with the space because they have comebacks on eclipse days? EXO! Who's the idol that the space is helping? EXO!

5. [+166, -1] If he's saying bluntly like that, it means so many companies must've asked him already ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

6. [+156, -4] EXO was the first idol to have a fanmeet at Gocheok. Other companies called to complain why EXO was holding a fanmeet there. It's true that other companies and fandoms can't stan without EXO and EXO-L.

7. [+146, -4] So many people were keeping EXO in check... After a year of debut, whenever the members passed a hallway with a lot of people, Joonmyun always kept a scary face... Because others were keeping them in check, the leader was making the face on purpose to protect the group. The sunbaes also know this, so they tease him when he makes a serious face to do something on broadcast ㅠㅠ

8. [+99, -2] They're trying to copy EXO ㅋㅋ "But your group can't be like EXO", so cool.

9. [+93, -1] Why would I be interested in an EXO-like group when there's EXO?

10. [+85, -1] They're even fighting over a song like this. Imagine how the companies must've tried to copy the universe concept, tsk tsk.