An even bigger dollop of cash will come from TV commercials.įrom just those sources, PSY and his camp will rake in at least $8.1 million (€6.2 million) this year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of publicly available information and industry estimates. With one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang - better known as PSY - is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business. So too have his agent and his grandmother.īut the money from music sales isn’t flowing in from the rapper’s homeland South Korea or elsewhere in Asia. that song holds a special place in my heart as a person who didn't know korean or the lyrics but always knew when to say Gangnam style and when to shout HEY in the song! It made my college year.AS ‘GANGNAM STYLE’ gallops toward 1 billion views on YouTube, the first Asian pop artist to capture a massive global audience has gotten richer click by click. alot of people say it doesn't count but as a current kpop fan it does for me. I look back on it and I didn't know it but that was my true introduction to kpop. The crowd, the artists, everyone I later googled MAMA and I was confused because I thought It was a psy concert. psy was dancing and singing LIVE and BRO!!! It was like a concert everyone in the video was going apeshit.
I listened to that song so many times and later that year I went back searching for more Gangnam style and found this video a live version and I said to myself "the hell IS MAMA?". The next week i heard it on the radio and you bet I cranked that song all the way up while rollin' down the highway, it was one of my best radio experiences. My brother knew it, my friends, everyone! It won awards in asia, north america and everywhere else peaked at #2 on billboard(so close). We sat down and the first thing out of my mouth was "have you heard of this song, Gangnam style and he said "yes everyone has!" And that is all we talked about gangnam style, my brother explained to me that there were parodies including a video my brother saw called "Mitt Romney Style" when we took our order the waiter overheard us and told us he sent his GF the music video. I realized I was late to meet my brother but so was he so I got into my car and drove to the restaurant where my brother was dropped off by his friend. I fell in love with the song and so did everyone else. I then looked up the lyrics and sung in butchered korean( it was 7 o'clock on afriday there was no one in the building save for a few unlucky souls, it was dead). The chorus builds up, the heys were shouted and then I heard the most glorious 3 words OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE! and then followed by AYYY SEXY LADYīefore I knew it I watched the video 15 times in the hall way on my laptop because I didn't have a smartphone back then. Psy just busting moves like no ones business rapping his song while some dude was dancing above him in an elevator. I was like "what's gangnam style" I clicked on it and opened to first a shot of this funny looking dude, and then I heard the words "Gangnam style" to the odd music and then it showed a shot of him lying what I thought was a beach but chilling on a playground next to a kid that was breakdancing then he was dancing in a horse stable and then chilling next to dancing tatted dude in a sauna and so forth my favorite part when he was walking with two ladies and debris is blowing in their faces thanks to a offscreen giant fan. I had time to kill so I went to youtube back when it was less of a media behemoth and more of a place to "broadcast yourself" I opened up and there was this music video that had a crapload of views. One day I was finishing up a paper and submitted it just in time for me to have dinner with my little brother. For me I was a strapping young college student with too much time on his hands. Some of you might be too young to know why that track was a big deal, but this was the first KPOP sensation that went Viral. Now I heard of kpop back then but just heard a bit about a band named BIGBANG that some of my asian classmates were worked up about in highschool but didnt hear to much. A little known track called Gangnam style. He was that korean guy who would come to the US every year leaving such treasures as Hangover, and Gentleman for the american GP to feast our ears upon. the most anyone heard of kpop was the aforementioned OPPA or a dude by the name of PSY( and maybe bigbang, for me it was the first I heard about it). Before we knew the craze of seven dudes topping charts and leading the Hallyu wave in style, back when EXO was twelve dudes with great expectations on there shoulders, when GG, SUPER JUNIOR, SHINEE AND 2PM were doing there usual business and Before RAIN told us to get in the car back when everything was FANTASTIC BABY.