Big Bang devours music charts at a gulp

On February 29, Big Bang released its fifth mini album ALIVE via major music-download sites such as Melon and Naver Music.

At 7:30 a.m. on the same day, Big Bang is setting a record in Korea’s music history, making all six title songs sweep through such music ranking charts. Even the 47-second intro song, “ALIVE,” is vaulted to upper ranks.

At the Melon chart, Big Bang put its name on seven ranks of its top ten chart. On the same day, the music video of “Bad Boy,” was released via YouTube, jumping to the top position in a moment beating Miss A, Eily, K Will and Seven. “Blue” and “Love Dust” were right followed into the second and third positions respectively. The list goes on: “Fantastic Baby” for fourth, “It’s No Fun” for fifth, “Wings” for seventh and the intro song “ALIVE” for tenth.

At M.net, “Love Dust” ranked top, followed by “Bad Boy” and “Fantastic Baby” for the second and third ranks respectively. On the same chart, “It’s no Fun” held the fourth position, “Wings” fifth, “Blue” sixth and “Alive (intro)” seventh.

At Olleh Music, its top ten chart was tightly filled with Big Bang’s songs. With “Love Dust” in the lead, “Bad Boy,” “It’s no Fun,” “Fantastic Baby,” “Wings,” “Blue,” and “ALIVE (intro)” placed the list in order.

This fifth mini album consists of five title songs. We can feel Big Bang’s strong confidence about every song. Each of them are songs in various genres with different colors.

Big Bang is planning to hold a concert under the title, 2012 BIG SHOW/BIGBANG ALIVE TOUR, for three days from March 2 to 4 at the Olympic Hall in the Olympic Park.