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Japanese singer May J, who will be featuring in Seungri's upcoming Japanesesolo album for the song "I Know" (originally sang with IU), talked about working with Big Bang's youngest member in an interview.

May J shared, "I went to Korea and actually met VI-san for the first time for this recording. He gave me directions all the time while recording like how he wants the song to be and he had a clear image for it. While receiving requests from him like “I want you to sing more sweetly”, I did my best to sing the song. Sometimes there was humor, so I always laughed during recording and was able to sing without getting nervous."

She added, "While recording with VI-san, he firmly held on to his own thoughts and honestly faced the music, so I really felt that he's a respectable artist. Furthermore, VI-san did a lot of research about Japan and his Japanese is really good, so I thought he is a hard worker himself. We made a promise to sing together in the future live, so I am really looking forward to sing "I Know" on stage together someday!"

At the press conference of Big Bang's Alive Galaxy Tour "The Final" Concert, G-Dragon shared his opinion on the Korean music market:

I want to thank VIPs all over the worls [world] for supportinf [supporting] BIGBANG's Alive Tour! See you guys on the next one"

Following JYP Entertainment Park Jinyoung's rice analogy on "K-POP Star Season 1", YG Entertainment producer Yang Hyunsuk came up with one of his own, comparing contestants to various dishes. What kind of food then, would he compare G-Dragon - the leader of YG's signature idol group - to?

G-Dragon is all set for his solo comeback and he has enlisted help from fellow Big Bang member Taeyang.

For G-Dragon's upcoming comeback stage on SBS Inkigayo this September 16, Taeyang has agreed to make an appearance in support of his friend. Taeyang is also featured in the music video of the song.

G-Dragon will be performing 2 songs during his comeback stage-- his title song Crayon and One of A Kind. Initially, SBS requested YG Entertainment to have G-Dragon perform 3 songs, but to raise the bar for his comeback, G-Dragon decided to perform just two.

 

Big Bang‘s T.O.P (Choi Seunghyun) will resume filming his new movie ‘Alumnus‘ under new director Park Hong Soo.

Filming for the movie had recently come to a halt after the previous director stepped down, however, Park Eun Kyung, head of ‘Alumnus’ production company ‘The Film‘ stated in a phone conversation with MyDaily on September 11th, “We will resume filming early next week with director Park Hong Soo.”

The Instiz chart combines the overwhelming variety of charts that South Korea uses to rank music sales, and it’s also what fans use to determine whether their favorite artist has achieved an “All-Kill”.

Check out the chart rankings for the second week of September (September 3 to September 9)!

1. G-Dragon – “That XX” – 31,828 Points
2. Seo In Guk & Eunji – “All For You” – 29,326 Points
3. Seo In Guk & Eunji – “Just The Way We Love” – 16,228 Points
4. Huh Gak ft. Zia – “I Need You” – 15,944 Points
5. PSY – “Gangnam Style” – 14,120 Points
6. T-ara – “SEXY LOVE” – 11,735 Points
7. KARA – “Pandora” – 10,880 Points
8. Taeyeon – “Closer” – 8,883 Points
9. Urban Zakapa – “I Hate You” – 8,140 Points
10. SISTAR – “Loving U” – 6,799 Points

Today is the fan event in Osaka!! I really had fun since I love Kansai so much! Today, I did many mistakes too but it can’t be helped. I already did my best. All the staff members worked hard too..

Today, during the wrap up party, the staff said they had fun working with Seung chan. And they also said thank you to me.. Those words really made me happy compared to any other words..

 Sorry, we can't post the whole thing because we might get in trouble for copyright infringement. You can view the full article here if you have a subscription with Time or buy the latest issue (September 17, 2012) from their iPad app or from newsstands.

Japanese jewelry brand Ambush collaborated with G-Dragon in designing limited edition accessories that will be launched on September 21 at My Boon in Seoul.

According to Jaehyuk Choi of My Boon, the collab is in celebration of G-Dragon's birthday and the release of his new album. He posted on Twitter that there will be 2 styles available and since G-Dragon likes the number 8, only 8 sets were made for the first style and 88 sets for second style. The first 8 sets will be sold on the the 21st and the rest will be available at the My Boon store in October.

Ambush is owned by rapper MC Verbal of Japanese hip-hop group M-Flo and his designer wife, Yoon. The list of celebrities who have worn their designs includes Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West and Jay-Z.

Preview photos:

On September 10th, YG Entertainment announced that an additional concert date had been added as a finale concert for their ‘Big Bang Alive Tour 2012 in Japan‘. Following their concerts to be held at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka (November 23rd and 24th) and at the Tokyo Dome (December 5th), the ‘Special Final in Dome‘ concert will be held at the Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka on December 22nd.

G-Dragon is a singer, producer, leader of BIGBANG and an undisputed fashionista. In his 6 years after debuting, he has carried a lot of hairstyles and presented different kinds of fashion. Which of the hairstyles he had is he most attached to?

Group Big Bang has dominated online, album, and music video market without any TV promotions, adding some momentum to the question that has surfaced the first half of the year on whether TV promotions are necessary for success.

Back in April, Busker Busker had a mega hit without any appearances on the network music programs and IU has also had success on the online charts in May with her ‘End of the Day’ off her fan service CD single ‘Spring of a Twenty Year Old’, thus as a result, the relationship between TV promotions and hit songs started to shift. Now Big Bang has garnered much attention not only in Korea but worldwide without any TV appearances at all, adding momentum to the theory that after all, TV promotion may not be a must as it has been in the past.

After placing high on US’s Billboard charts, Big Bang shows it’s still reaching greater heights.

As of June 9, Big Bang’s Monster music video sits at the top of China’s biggest music video site, Yin Yue Tai (www.yinyuetai.com).

This week for videos just fucking absolutely ruled, so before we get into what made this list, let’s take a moment for all the videos that missed the cut. Among the casualties: Two eye-grabbing clips for A-list indie anthems, a mind-warping and visually sumptuous CocoRosie clip, a great bare-bones performance video, a legitimately funny minute-long sketch, a fun-to-watch fantasy/empowerment thing, a typically-engrossing ASAP Rocky video, a visually gorgeous and kinda-racist treatment of a massive pop-star duet, and a Willie Nelson video that treats its father/son relationship so simply and tenderly that I found myself moved watching it. Now here’s what did make it.