Kpop Versus American Pop
American Pop Music VS Korean Pop Music
“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds”
- Dizzy Gillespie
Imagine tickets being sold out in only a matter of 10 minutes across the globe in major cities like L.A., N.Y, Paris, Tokyo, and Seoul. But just who could be selling out concerts like this? Is it Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift? Actually try none, of them, the artist who are selling out these concerts in major countries around the globe are actually part of a growing phenomenon called Kpop which is short for Korean pop. Now I know what your thinking there’s no way this could be true, oh but it is. Take for example South Korean rapper PSY, recently released a music video for his song called “Gangnam Style” this song and music video are completely in Korean, but it has generated 400,000,000 view on his official Youtube channel alone becoming the 4th most viewed video in Youtube history. Shocking right what’s even more shocking is that you can even hear this song being played on the radio right here in S.C. on popular stations such as B93.7 and Hot 98.1. Now it’s clear from seeing this that Kpop is now quickly becoming a very popular genre of music not only outside of it’s originator South, Korea but even here in the United States and other countries around the world. But just why is that, since the world’s biggest music market is here in the united states and the seconded largest music industry in the world is in Japan. Now one would think since Japan has the 2nd largest industry that Japanese pop music would be growing like this but it isn’t, it’s Kpop that is growing like this and the reason that I say this is
Law 2 because Kpop is largely model after American Pop music industry. Which in all honesty is a very smart move seeing as how successful the American music industry is compared to other countries around the world. Even though it’s clear that Kpop has a lot of influence from American pop there is also a
“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds”
- Dizzy Gillespie
Imagine tickets being sold out in only a matter of 10 minutes across the globe in major cities like L.A., N.Y, Paris, Tokyo, and Seoul. But just who could be selling out concerts like this? Is it Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift? Actually try none, of them, the artist who are selling out these concerts in major countries around the globe are actually part of a growing phenomenon called Kpop which is short for Korean pop. Now I know what your thinking there’s no way this could be true, oh but it is. Take for example South Korean rapper PSY, recently released a music video for his song called “Gangnam Style” this song and music video are completely in Korean, but it has generated 400,000,000 view on his official Youtube channel alone becoming the 4th most viewed video in Youtube history. Shocking right what’s even more shocking is that you can even hear this song being played on the radio right here in S.C. on popular stations such as B93.7 and Hot 98.1. Now it’s clear from seeing this that Kpop is now quickly becoming a very popular genre of music not only outside of it’s originator South, Korea but even here in the United States and other countries around the world. But just why is that, since the world’s biggest music market is here in the united states and the seconded largest music industry in the world is in Japan. Now one would think since Japan has the 2nd largest industry that Japanese pop music would be growing like this but it isn’t, it’s Kpop that is growing like this and the reason that I say this is
Law 2 because Kpop is largely model after American Pop music industry. Which in all honesty is a very smart move seeing as how successful the American music industry is compared to other countries around the world. Even though it’s clear that Kpop has a lot of influence from American pop there is also a