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BLACKPINK: Playing with Fire

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Playing with Fire  by BLACKPINK was one of the lead singles from their second single album Square Two as the first track. Released on November 1, 2016 the song was written and composed by Teddy with R.Tee also assisting in the composition. Arrangement was done solely by R.Tee. It had been 85 days since their previous releases of Boombayah and Whistle. Playing with Fire features Jennie, Jisoo, Rose, and Lisa at the average age of 19.8 years old. Playing with Fire had 220 words with 70.9% (156 words) in Korean versus 29.1% (64 words) in English. The song is sung entirely in individual sections. The average is 55 words with a standard deviation of 20.3 words and a margin of error of 10.1 words. Member Lisa had the highest number of words while member Jisoo had the least. Rank Lisa - 89 words Jennie - 51 words Rose - 43 words Jisoo - 37 words Lisa - Highest word  Playing with Fire had a track time of 3 minutes and 17 seconds with a total singing time of 2 minutes and 22 s...

BLACKPINK: Rose

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Blackpink: Rose Born Roseanne Park on February 11, 1997 in the year of the Ox. An Aquarius, she is of New Zealander and Korean nationality. Growing up in Australia, she entered the company when she passed the Sydney global auditions in 2012 and beat out hundreds of others to gain the position. Although BLACKPINK does not have any official positions, Rose is considered to be the main vocalist and lead dancer. 🌹  Songs Ranked by Time Total Time: 70 seconds  Whistle  - 34 seconds  Boombayah  - 36 seconds 🌹 Discography  Coming soon...

Red Velvet: Automatic

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Automatic by Red Velvet was released on March 14, 2015 as the track number 2 on the EP Ice Cream Cake. Lyrics were written by Choi So-Young with composition and arrangement by Daniel “obi” Klein and Charli Taft. The track features members Irene, Seulgi, Yeri, Joy, and Wendy at the average age of 20 years old. Automatic is the first lead single to feature member Yeri, as the album is the first to feature the new member. Automatic has 243 words with 55.1% (134 words) in Korean versus 44.9% (109 words) in English. The song is sung majority in individual sections with 146 words (60.1%) divided among the members while 97 words (39.9%) sung in unison. Average between the members is 30.2 words with a standard deviation of 18.7 words and a margin of error of 8.4 words. Member Wendy has the highest number of words while member Irene has the least. Rank Wendy - 55 words Seulgi - 45 words Joy - 33 words Yeri - 10 words Irene - 8 words Wendy - Highest Word Automatic has a time of 3 minutes...

Red Velvet: Wendy

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Red Velvet: Wendy Born Song Seung Wan on February 21, 1994 in the year of the dog. A Pisces, she is of Korean nationality although she was mainly raised in the USA and Canada. She was casted when she went with a friend to a SM Global audition in Canada in 2012. She ended up auditioning that day, and passing the audition. Wendy’s is considered the group's Main vocalist. She is one of the members that is no longer under SM Entertainment but is still a part of the group. 💙 Songs Ranked by Time: Total Time: 142 seconds  Be Natural -  75 seconds  Happiness - 55 seconds  Ice Cream Cak e - 12 seconds  💙 Discography Coming soon...

Girls' Generation: Into the New World - Single Album

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Into the New World single album was first released on August 2, 2007 under the label SM. The single album features three tracks with only 1 lead single and 2 B-sides. This serves as Girls’ Generation debut, as it is their first Korean release, and first single album. The album features members Hyoyeon, Jessica, Seohyun, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yoona, and Yuri at the average age of 17.6 years old. The album features the following songs–see the individual tracks for further information. Lead Single: Into the New World B-Side: Beginning | Perfect for You/Honey Into the New World single album has a total of 662 words with 500 words (79.6%) in Korean versus 128 words (20.4%) in English. 39.6% (262 words) sung by all members in unison with 60.4% (400 words) sung divided into individual sections. The average per member is about 44.4 words total for the album. The average standard deviation between the three songs is 13.2 words with the average margin of error being 4.4...

Girls' Generation: Sunny

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Girls’ Generation: Sunny Born Lee Soon-Kyu on May 15, 1989 in the year of the Snake. A Taurus, she is of Korean-American nationality. Her uncle is the founder and former CEO of SM entertainment, where she became a trainee there in 1998. She had transferred to another company Starworld where she was set to debut with a duo called Sugar that never officially made it. After the agency went bankrupt, another singer convinced her to join SM entertainment again, where she would later debut with the group. Sunny is considered the group's lead vocalist and sub-rapper. She is one of the members that is no longer under SM Entertainment but is still a part of the group. Subunit: TTS 💖 Songs Ranked by Time Total time: 20 seconds  Into the New World - 9 seconds  Honey / Perfect for You - 5 seconds  Beginning - 4 seconds  💖 Discography  Coming Soon...

K-Pop Music Show Awards: July 2026, Week 2

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Music Show Awards of the Week: July 7-July 12, 2026  Key: 🏆(Win) | 👑(Triple Crown) ‗ The Show: July 7, 2026 No show or Broadcast this week  Show Champion: July 8, 2026  Hearts2Hearts: Lemon Tang 🏆 M Countdown: July 9, 2026  Le Sserafirm, Illit, Kateseye - Iconic by Mistake 🏆🏆 Music Bank:  July 10, 2026  Ateez - Bad 🏆🏆 Show! Music Core:  July 11, 2026  Aespa - Lemonade 🏆 Inkigayo:  July 12, 2026  I.O.I - Suddenly 🏆 Summary of the Week  Ateez won their second win for Bad for Music Bank Le Sserafirm, Illit, Kateseye, won their second win for Iconic by Mistake for M Countdown Rank of the Week Ateez, Le Sserafirm, Illit, Kateseye, IOI, and Aespa - 1 Win 🏆

K-Pop Music Show Awards: 1998 May

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May 1998 In 1998, instead of there being 5 shows, there was only One until June of that year. So instead of doing a weekly update as if it were debuting, I will be doing the month until we have about three music shows a week. So here is May of 1998, the first Music Show Awards program. Inkigayo: May 3, 1998 Cool - Sorrow 🏆🏆🏆👑 Inkigayo: May 10, 1998 Cool - Sorrow  🏆🏆🏆🏆 👑 Inkigayo: May 17, 1998 Im Chang-Jung - Be a Star 🏆 Inkigayo: May 24, 1998 Im Chang-jung - Be a Star 🏆🏆 Wins this Month: Cool 🏆🏆👑 | Im Chang Jung 🏆🏆 (2) Wins of the Year (So far): Cool 🏆🏆🏆🏆 👑 (4) Turbo 🏆🏆🏆👑 | Shin Seung-Hun 🏆🏆🏆👑- | S.E.S 🏆🏆🏆 (3) JYP 🏆🏆 | Im Chang Jung 🏆🏆(2)

Hearts2Hearts - The Chase Single Album

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The Chase  single album by Hearts2Hearts was released on February 24, 2025 with 2 tracks. One lead single and one b-side under the label SM and Kakao. This is Hearts2hearts first debut release in the Korean language. The Chase single album features members A-na, Carmen, Ian, Jiwoo, Juun, Stella, Ye-on, and Yuha at the average age of 17.4 years old. The two tracks are two tracks on the single album. Lead single: The Chase B-side: Butterflies Overall, the album contains 422 words with 74.6% (315 words) in Korean versus 25.4% (315 words) in English. The song is sung majority in individual sections with 296 words (70.2%) divided between the eight members with 126 words (29.9%) sung in unison. The average is 24.9 words with an average standard deviation over the two songs being 12.8 words and with an average margin of error 4.5 words. Member Yuha had the highest number of words on the album while member A-na had the least. Rank Yuha - 91 words Jiwoo - 66 words Stella - 63 words ...

Hearts2Hearts: Ian

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Hearts2Hearts: Ian Born Jeong Lee-an on October 9, 2009 in the year of the Ox. A Libra, she is of Korean nationality. She was scouted through Instagram through her DMS by an SM Agent. She passed her audition by singing Let It Go from Frozen. Ian is the group's center and visual although the group doesn’t consider themselves to have fixed positions. 🫛   Total amount of Time: Coming Soon...  Songs Ranked by Time: Coming Soon...  🫛   Discography  Coming Soon... 

Aespa: Next Level

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Next Level  by Aespa was released on May 17, 2021. The song was a remake of the song of the same name by artist A$ton wyld. Next Level was originally released in 2019 for the movie Hobbs and Shaw (a part of the Fast and Furious franchise). Korean lyrics by Yoo Young-jin with compositing of the music by Yoo Young-jin, Adam Mcinnis, Mario Marchetti, and Sophie Curitis. Arrangement credit is to Yoo Young-jin, Adam Mcinnis, and Mario Marachetti. The song features members: Ninging, Karina, Giselle, and Winter. At the time of the release, the average age of all four members of the AESPA was about 20.25. When you break down the song into the number of words, Apesa sings about 364 words total with the average per member being 86.3. Standard deviation is 14.1 with a margin of error of 7.1. The song is sung in English with 200 words at 54.9 percent while 164 words were in Korean at about 45.1 percent. Overall the song is sung by the majority as individuals with 321 words (88.2%) be...

Aespa: Ningning

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Aespa: Ningning Born Ning Yizhuo on October 23, 2002 in the year of the Horse. A Libra, she is of Chinese nationality. She entered the company after being scouted by an SM agent who saw her performance on the Chinese show Let’s Sing Kids. She was the only Aespa member who had been previously introduced through a pre-debut trainee program SM Rookies. Ningning is considered the groups main vocalist and Maknae. 🦋 Total amount of Time: Coming Soon... Songs Ranked by Time: Coming Soon... 🦋   Discography  Coming Soon...

BLACKPINK: Square One - Single Album

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Square One  was released on August 8, 2016 as a single album from BLACKPINK. Released under the label YG, with producers Teddy, Bekuh Boom, and Future Bounce. The single album only has two lead singles and no B-sides. There is no prior release as this is BLACKPINK’s debut. Square One features members Lisa, Rose, Jisoo, and Jennie at the average age of 19.8 years old. Square One’s songs are: Lead Singles: Whistle | Boombayah If you would like further information see previous chapters for deeper dives into each. Square one has a total of 710 words with 351 words (49.4%) in Korean versus 359 words (50.6%) in English. About 25.5% (181 words) sung in unison with 74.5% (529 words) split between the members. The average was 132.9 words with the average standard deviation being 25.6 words and the average margin of error of 12.9 words. Member Jennie had the highest number of words with Rose having the least. Rank Jennie - 185 words Lisa - 177 words Jisoo - 89 words Rose - 78 words Je...

BLACKPINK: Lisa

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BLACPINK: Lisa  Born Pranpriya Manobal, later legalized to Lalisa Monobal, on March 27, 1997 in the year of the ox. An Aries, she is of Thai nationality. She auditioned in a YG Global Auditions held in Thailand in 2010, while also being the only person out of about 4,000 who auditioned who was offered a trainee position. Although BLACKPINK does not have any official positions, Lisa is considered to be the main dancer, lead rapper, sub-vocalist, and Maknae. 🐤 Songs Ranked by Time Total Time: 74 seconds  Whistle  - 45 seconds  Boombayah  - 29 seconds  🐤 Discography  Coming Soon...

Red Velvet: Ice Cream Cake

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Ice Cream Cake by Red Velvet was the second lead single from their EP Ice Cream Cake as the first track. Released on March 16, 2015, the song was written by Jo Yoon Kyung and Kim Dong-hyun. Composition and arrangement was by Hayley Aitken, Sebastian Lundberg, Frederick Haggstam, and Johan Gustafsson. Ice Cream Cake was released two days after Automatic. Ice Cream Cake featured members Irene, Wendy, Seulgi, Joy, and Yeri at the average age of 20 years old. Ice Cream Cake had a total of 435 words with 195 words (55.8%) in Korean versus 240 (55.2%) in English. The song is sung majority in unison with 65.3% (284 words) while only 34.7% (151 words) divided between the members. The average is 30.2 words with a standard deviation of 14.3 words and a margin of error of 6.4 words. Member Joy had the highest number of words while member Yeri had the least. Rank Joy - 52 words Irene - 39 words Wendy - 27 words Seulgi - 23 words Yeri - 10 words Joy - highest word count Ice Cream Cake had a t...

Red Velvet: Seulgi

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Red Velvet: Seulgi Born Kang Seul Gi on February 10, 1994 in the year of the Dog. An Aquarius, she is of Korean nationality. She was casted into SM Entertainment when she passed through the Notorious hard Open Saturday Auditions in 2007. Sub Unit: Irene & Seulgi 💛 Songs Ranked by Time: Total Time: 84 seconds  Happiness - 37 seconds  Be Natural - 36 seconds  Ice Cream Cak e - 11 seconds  💛 Discography  Coming Soon... 

Girls' Generation: Honey/Perfect for You

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Honey or Perfect for You  was released on August 2, 2007 first on the single album Into the New World then, later featured on their first studio album Girls’ Generation (2007) as a b-side. The song is written by Kwon Yun-Jeong, with composition by Ingrid Skretting, and arrangement by Kenzie. The song features members Jessica, Hyoyeon, Seohyun, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yoona, and Yuri at the average age of 17.6 years old. Honey has 177 words with 81.9% (145 words) in Korean versus 18.1% (32 words) in English. The song is sung in individual sections with 99 words (55.9%) split amongst the nine members. About 78 words (44.1%) sung by all members in unison. The average is 11.2 words with a standard deviation of 9.7 words and a margin of error of 3.2 words. Member Jessica had the highest amount of words while members Sunny, Tiffany, and Yoona had the least amount of words. Rank Jessica - 34 words Taeyeon - 19 words Yuri - 16 words Seohyun - 10 words Hyoyeon & Sooyoun...

Girls' Generation: Sooyoung

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Girls’ Generation: Sooyoung Born Choi Soo-young on February 10, 1990 in the year of the Horse. A Aquarius, she is of Korean nationality. Casted first in 2000, during the SM Open auditions, she later in 2002 debuted under a short lived Korean-Japanese group called Route θ before debuting again in 2007 with Girls’ Generation. Sooyoung is considered the lead dancer, lead rapper, and sub-vocalist. She is one of the members that is no longer under SM Entertainment but is still a part of the group. 💖 Songs Ranked by Time: Total time: 21 seconds  Into the New World - 9 seconds  Honey / Perfect for You - 7 Seconds  Beginning - 5 Seconds  💖 Discography  Coming soon... 

K-Pop Music Show Awards: July 2026, Week 1

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  Music Show Awards of the Week: June 30-July 5, 2026 Key: 🏆(Win) | 👑(Triple Crown) 👑🏆👑🏆👑 The Show: June 30, 2026 No Broadcast or Winner announced  Show Champion: July 1, 2026  No Broadcast or Winner announced  M Countdown: July 2, 2026  Hearts2Hearts: Lemon Tang 🏆 Music Bank:  July 3, 2026  Ateez: Bad 🏆 Show! Music Core:  July 4, 2026  I.O.I: Suddenly 🏆🏆🏆👑 Inkigayo:  July 5, 2026  No Broadcast or Winner announced  👑🏆👑🏆👑 Summary of the Week  IOI earned their third win on Show! Music Core for Suddenly, earning a triple crown for the song, the third to do so on the Show! Music Core this year. Hearts2Hearts won their first win for the song Lemon Tang on M Countdown. Ateez won their first win for the song Bad on Music Bank. Shows The Show, Inkigayo, and Show Champion did not broadcast or announce a winner, which means there were only 3 chances to win this week. Rank of the Week  I.O.I - 1 ...

K-Pop Music Show Awards: 1998 April

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April 1998  In 1998, instead of there being 5 shows, there was only One until June of that year. So instead of doing a weekly update as if it were debuting, I will be doing the month until we have about three music shows a week. So here is April of 1998, the first Music Show Awards program. Inkigayo: April 5, 1998 Shin Seung-Hun - A Promise I Can’t Follow 🏆🏆🏆 👑 Inkigayo: April 12, 1998 S.E.S. - Oh, My Love 🏆 Inkigayo: April 19, 1998 Cool - Sorrow 🏆 Inkigayo: April 26, 1998 Cool - Sorrow 🏆🏆 Wins this Month: Cool - 🏆🏆 (2) Shin Seung-Hun 🏆👑 | S.E.S 🏆 (1) Wins of the Year (So far): Turbo 🏆🏆🏆 👑 | Shin Seung-Hun 🏆🏆🏆 👑- | S.E.S 🏆🏆🏆 (3) JYP 🏆🏆 | Cool 🏆🏆 (2)

Hearts2Hearts: Butterflies

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Butterflies by Hearts2Hearts was released as a B-side on the single album The Chase on February 24, 2025 as the second track. The song was written by Alemang (XYXX) and Kang Eun-jeong. Composition and arrangement is by Daniel Michael Victor, Rasmus Gregerson, with Amanda Thomsen also working on the composition. Butterflies features members A-na, Carmen, Ian, Jiwoo, Juun, Stella, Ye-on, and Yuha at the average age of 17.4 years old. Butterflies had a total of 169 words with 154 words (91.1%) in Korean versus 15 words (8.9%) in English. About 36.7% (62 words) were sung by all members in unison while 107 words (63.3%) were divided between the eight members. The average was 13.9 words with a standard deviation of 9.1 words and a margin of error of 3.2 words. Member Yuha had the highest number of words while members A-na and Jiwoo both had the least. Rank Yuha - 33 words Stella - 20 words Juun - 18 words Ye-on - 14 words Carmen - 10 words Ian - 8 Words A-na, Jiwoo - 4 words Yuha - hi...

Hearts2Hearts: Carmen

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Hearts2Hearts: Carmen Born Nyoman Ayu Carmenita on March 28, 2006 in the year of the Dog. An Aries, she is of Indonesian nationality. She auditioned for the company over zoom, having to sing about 100 songs before she passed. Carmen is the main vocalist, although the group doesn’t consider themselves to have fixed positions. 🌴 Total amount of Time: Coming Soon...   Songs Ranked by Time: Coming Soon... 🌴 Discography  Coming Soon...

Aespa: Forever

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Forever by Aespa was released originally as a non-album song then, later featured as a b-side on the album Girls (track #8), released in 2022. The song is a remake of the song that was written and released as a christmas song for SMTown by Yoo Young-jin in 2000. The song was written, composed, and rearranged by Yoo Young-jin himself. It had been 80 days since their previous release of Black Mamba. Forever features members Giselle, Karina, Ningning, and Winter at the average age of 20.3 years old. Forever has 176 words with 150 words (85.2%) in Korean versus 26 words (14.8%) in English. 8% (14 words) sung in unison while the remaining 92% (162 words) divided between the four members. The average was 40.5 words with a standard deviation of 5.7 words and a margin of error of 2.8 words. Member Winter had the highest number of words while member Giselle had the least. Rank Winter - 59 words Karina, Ningning - 40 words Giselle - 33 words Forever has a track time of 4 minutes and 58...

Aespa: Karina

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Karina  Born Yu Ji-min on April 11, 2000 in the year of the Dragon. An Aries, she is of Korean nationality. She entered the company by receiving a direct message from a member of SM on Instagram. She was initially asked to audition based on her looks, but passed the test to get into the company. Karina is considered the leader, main dancer, lead rapper, sub-vocalist, visual, face of the group, and the center. 🩷 Total amount of Time: Coming Soon... Songs Ranked by Time: Coming Soon... 🩷 Discography  Coming Soon...

BLACKPINK: Whistle

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Whistle by BLACKPINK was released at the same time as Boombayah as a dual, lead single, debut on August 8, 2016. It’s the first track on the single album of Square One written, composed, and arranged by Teddy, and Bekuh Boom. Future Bounce also participated in the composition and arrangement. Whistle features members Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo, and Rose at the average age of 19.8 years old. Whistle has a total of 341 words with 59.8% (204 words) in Korean versus 40.2% (137 words) in English. About 19 words (5.6%) sung in unison with 322 words (94.4%) divided between the four members. The average is 80.5 words with a standard deviation of 30.1 words and a margin of error of 15.2 words. Member Jennie had the highest number of words while member Jisoo had the least. Rank Jennie -122 words Lisa - 97 words Rose - 52 words Jisoo - 51 words Jennie - Highest Word Count Whistle has a track time of 3 minutes and 31 seconds with a total singing time of 3 minutes and 6 seconds. 5 seconds (2.7%...

BLACKPINK: Jisoo

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Blackpink: Jisoo Born Kim Ji-soo on January 3, 1995 in the year of the dog. A Capricorn, she is of Korean nationality. She was casted after she auditioned in 2011 for the company and passed. Although BLACKPINK does not have any official positions, Jisoo is considered to be the lead vocalist and visual. 🐰 Songs Ranked by Time Total Time: 67 seconds  Whistle  - 31 seconds  Boombayah  - 36 seconds 🐰 Discography  Coming Soon...