Girls’ Generation are undeniably the top advertisement models in the entertainment world this year but among the nine girls, who earned the most?
On December 22nd at 9pm KST, a corner of cable channel, tvN’s entertainment information programme, ‘enews’ titled ‘Most Watched News’ will be focusing on the girls’ individual incomes.
Along with Lee SeungGi, Girls’ Generation was recently selected as the best advertisement models in 2011. The secret behind it is none other than the fact that the group itself is well-loved by people from all age groups. Due to the girls’ various unique personalities, they have been constantly receiving offers to promote different products.
Among the nine members, Jessica and Tiffany were both ranked 4th in terms of individual incomes. With their participation in musicals ‘Legally Blonde’ (Jessica) and ‘FAME’ (Tiffany), they were paid about 3 million Won in performance fees per show. From 10 shows, the total performance fees would be about 30 million Won each.
Taeyeon, who has the most outstanding singing ability, came in 3rd. She was also a radio DJ and acted in the musical ‘Midnight Sun’. From her radio appearances, she received a fee of 400,000 Won per show. Thus, after two years, the total fee collected summed up to 288 million Won. For her musical appearances, she earned a further amount of about 30 million Won.
In 2nd place, it is none other than the maknae, Seohyun. Seohyun’s composed and trustworthy image is a favorite among advertisers. The appearance fee for rising stars in cosmetic products’ advertisement is around 100-200 million Won per advertisement. If Seohyun was paid 200 million Won per advertisement, she would have received an estimated fee of 400 million Won for two advertisements filmed.
Who among the remaining 5 members (Yuri, Sunny, YoonA, Sooyoung and Hyoyeon) earns the most in Girls’ Generation? The member who reaped in an estimated income of about 3 billion Won will be revealed at 9pm KST on December 22nd’s edition of ‘enews’.
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Girls’ Generation and Tiffany’s fans from various countries have donated a total of 2,441kg of congratulatory rice in conjunction with Tiffany’s first performance for the musical ‘FAME’ on December 21st at the Olympic Park.
To congratulate Tiffany’s debut in musical, fans, not only from Korea but foreign countries, have sent 2,441 kg of congratulatory rice. J-SONE JAPAN has sent 801kg while Japanese fansite sosipen.net has sent 500kg. Tiffany House & SONEs from Taiwan has sent 300kg while China and Hong Kong have each sent 100kg. 620kg were sent by Korean fans, with 20kg from anonymous senders.
The staff from the musical ‘FAME’ stated, “Fans from both Korea and foreign countries have requested for us to receive their congratulatory rice since last month, but we couldn’t accept all of them because we did not have enough space. The musical ‘FAME’ has received a total of 8,546kg of congratulatory rice, not only from Tiffany’s fans, but also fans of EunHyuk, JungMo and Lina. This is, so far, the most congratulatory rice a musical has received.”
After the musical ends, the congratulatory rice they have received will be donated to those in need.
‘FAME’, a story of youths’ dreams and goals, will be performed until January 29th.
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Girls’ Generation has prepared an unprecedented Christmas concert, showing off their fresh looks and charms.
On the midnight of December 25th, the ‘Girls’ Generation’s Christmas Fairytale’ held with 700 audiences will be broadcasted on MBC.
On the day of recording, Taeyeon transformed into ‘Queen of Snow’ and performed ‘Oh Holy Night’, a sorrowful carol song. Sooyoung’s Latin dance performance ‘Cha-Cha-Cha’ was revealed for the first time and became a hot topic among fans.
Moreover, Jessica transformed into ‘Sleeping Beauty’, singing a jazz song ‘When you wish upon a star’ with her unique style. Seohyun and Yuri put up a performance with charms that were unseen of, giving the fans a real surprise. The members also put up a ‘Hit songs parade’ by singing carol versions of title songs like ‘The Boys’ and ‘Kissing you’. Besides this, Girls’ Generation also paid visit to soldiers of the army at the frontline. By adding a special stage with Sung Sikyung, as well as Jessica’s duet stage with SHINee’s Onew, audience will have more anticipation for this concert. ‘Girls’ Generation’s Christmas Fairytale’ will be aired for 90 minutes on December 25th at 12.20am KST. Credit: tvreport.co.kr Translated by: [email protected]
On December 21st, the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) released the ’2011 Ringtone Ranking’. Based on the chart, among Korean singers, only Girls’ Generation and Kara were ranked within the top 20 positions.
Girls’ Generation’s ‘Gee’ was ranked 7th and ‘Mr.Taxi’ took the no.10 spot. Kara’s ‘Mister’ and ‘Go Go Summer’ were ranked 6th and 11th respectively. Besides the two songs in the top 10 positions, Girls’ Generation’s ‘Run Devil Run’ was also placed at no.71.
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Through a survey conducted from December 12th to 15th by OSEN on 48 influential representatives from various entertainment fields, such as broadcasting, music, film, etc., Girls’ Generation were selected as the most prominent stars of the year. Out of the 48 participants, 15 (31%) showed their support for Girls’ Generation as 2011′s Best Star.
Kim ByungMan came in 2nd with 8 votes, followed by Cha SeungWon in 3rd with 5 votes. HyunBin and IU were both ranked 4th as they garnered 4 votes each.
Girls’ Generation received overwhelming support from the representatives in the music industry, including from the rival agencies. Once again, this has indeed proven the girls’ unbeatable popularity.
Out of the 12 participants who are representatives of various agencies and famous producers, five of them chose Girls’ Generation over their own agencies’ artists.
PDs of music and variety programs, as well as representatives from the film industry and other fields also showed their support for Girls’ Generation.
After hearing the news about the result of the survey, the girls said, “Thank you for watching over us well. We will work even harder in the future and we will show you a much greater side of us next year.”
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Recently, Jessica changed her profile photo in UFO Town to a photo of her dressed as a cute Rudolph. In the photo, Jessica gave off a Christmas atmosphere by wearing a red checkered, sleeveless dress, along with a reindeer hairband. She winked with her right eye while she smiled for the photo. Netizens commented, “Look at how white her face is”, “Her smile is refreshing”, “I want to look like Jessica”, “My heart pounds because of her wink “Merry Christmas”, etc. Meanwhile, Girls’ Generation is now promoting the Korean version of ‘Mr. Taxi’, following their 3rd album ‘The Boys’. Credit: tvreport.co.kr Translated by: [email protected]
SNSD made a surprise appearance on the latest episode of ‘1N2D‘.
KBS 2TV‘s ‘Happy Sunday‘ aired a special ’1N2D – Photographer’s Special’, in which the cast members were assigned a mission to capture the essential, unique moments with photographs. Lee Seung Gi was given a mission to capture a rainbow in a photo, but unfortunately for him, there was no rainbow to be found.
Hearing that spraying water in an area with a lot of good lighting would get him the same results, he headed for the set of KBS 2TV’s ‘Music Bank’.Upon arriving, the singer, who is close with the SNSD girls, headed straight for their dressing room to get some help completing his mission.
The girls were eager to be of assistance, and Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Yuri stepped out to help him spray water near the spotlights in order to create a rainbow.
Their efforts paid off, as they were able to create not one, but two rainbows which were captured on Seung Gi’s camera.
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On December 20th, comedian and ‘Infinite Challenge’ regular member, Jung Joon-ha revealed through his Twitter account that he came across Girls’ Generation on the plane heading to Seoul from Japan.
On December 19th, the ‘Hey Hey Hey!’ Christmas Special broadcasted on Japan’s Fuji TV, gathered popular Japanese singers, as well as Korean singers, such as TVXQ, Kara, Girls’ Generation and BoA. With this event, YoonA and her ideal type Takuya Kimura met and stood on the same stage. Before the start of the show, all artistes gathered on the stage, during which Girls’ Generation members were spotted behind SMAP. As the talk went on, YoonA, who is known to have chosen Takuya Kiruma as her ideal type, could not take her eyes off Takuya Kiruma throughout the talk. In response to this, netizens commented, “She finally met her ideal type”, “They must have greeted each other on the stage”, “Japanese version of ‘The Boys’ is daebak”, “In Japan, Girls’ Generation looks especially beautiful,” etc. Credit: cj.net Translated by: [email protected]
Girls’ Generation’s ‘Japan 1st Arena Tour Girls’ Generation’ DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) topped Oricon’s charts at the same time.
According to Oricon on December 21st, the DVD which was released on December 14th, topped the Oricon’s DVD Weekly Chart for combined category (no.1 for Music category) with sales of 69,000 copies in the first week. Also, the BD which was released on the same date, secured the no.2 spot on Oricon’s BD Weekly Chart for Combined category (no.1 for Music category) after recording sales of 37,000 copies in week 1.
With that, Girls’ Generation are the first foreign artists to top Oricon’s Weekly Chart for both DVD and BD in the Music category at the same time.
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