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Saturday, June 22, 2013
[News] 2PM have a 'ssanti' dance battle with the 'gentle police men' on 'Star King'
2PM battled it out against the Korean police dancing team that became known worldwide as the 'gentle police men' on 'Star King'!
The Korean police team, whose dance covers of Psy's "Gangnam Style" and "Gentleman" have become hit videos online, impressed 2PM with their performances of "Again & Again" and "Heartbeat". The two groups also had a dance battle with Wooyoung bringing his 'ssanti' dance to the show once again alongside Chansung.
Who do you think won the dance battle?
Source: allkpop
[News] 2PM get 15,000 HOTTESTs to put their 'hands up' during their "What Time Is It?" grand finale concert in Seoul
What time is it? It's 2PM! And HOTTESTs made sure to put their 'hands up' for the sold-out last leg of 2PM's 'What Time Is It?' tour!
2PM held the grand finale concert of their 'What Time Is It?' tour at Jamsil Arena in Seoul on the 21st and 22nd, drawing in over 15,000 fans. The 'beastly idols' opened up the stage with "Game Over", "I Was Crazy About You" and "I Hate You". 2PM then greeted fans as they shared, "It is finally the end of our 7-month long tour. We missed you. We were able to hold our final concert in Seoul. We are always thankful for the big love that we receive and we prepared a lot for today."
The boys also showcased their individual charms through solo stages of their self-created songs from their special album, 'Grand Edition - GROWN'. 2PM performed a total of 26 tracks including "A.D.T.O.Y.", "Heartbeat", "Again & Again", "Without U", "Don't Stop Can't Stop", "I'm Your Man", "Back 2 U", "10 out of 10", "Hands Up", and more throughout the 3-hour long concert.
Source: allkpop
[News] 2PM's Income Is $1.3 Million Per Member? 'Increasing Again Next Year'
It has been revealed that 2PM members earn about 1.3 million dollars per member.
According to JYP Entertainment, their group 2PM earned about $27.3 million. If that total is divided among the 6 members, that would mean that one member's earnings are about $1.3 million.
Next year, their income will be increasing even more. 2PM's activity in Japan is planned to be increasing by about 20% next year, which will be increasing their income to about $1.39 million.
Source: kpopstarz
[News] JYP Entertainment and JYP merge + 2PM, 2AM, Wonder Girls, & JJ Project earnings for first half of 2013
With the announcement of a merger between listed company JYP Entertainment and unlisted company (not listed on stock market exchange) JYP, detailed information regarding the earnings of JYP Entertainment artists were revealed for the stock holders.
The charts provided revealed that 2PM is the agency's top earning artist this year, not surprisingly, bringing in sales of 11.57 billion KRW ($10 million - in USD) for the first half of 2013. 2AM was next with 2.17 billion KRW ($1.88 million), then Wonder Girls with 1.35 billion KRW ($1.17 million), and JJ Project with 1.25 billion KRW ($1.08 million). [Note: the numbers listed on the chart you see above goes by a unit of 1000].
When taking out the expenses and costs for music video production, marketing, promotions, dorms, education and training, and more, 2PM's profit includes royalties of 1.078 billion KRW from album sales, 6.619 billion KRW from management sales, and 56 million KRW from contents sales (endorsements, ads, etc.). With a total of 7.753 billion KRW ($6.7 million), this works out to be about 1.292 billion KRW ($1.12 million) in profit per member.
For 2AM, the total works out to be 1.969 billion KRW ($1.7 million). Royalties from album sales are about 925 million KRW, while royalties from contents sales are about 1.044 billion KRW. Since there are 4 members, it works out to be about 492 million KRW ($426,000) per member.
After taking out the basic expenses for Wonder Girls, their profit was 295 million KRW ($255,000) with 284 million KRW from album sale royalties and 11 million KRW from contents royalties. This amounts to around 59 million KRW ($51,000) per member.
JJ Project did not record any royalties for this year.
Another interesting fact to note is that with the merger, J.Y. Park has become the biggest shareholder of JYP Entertainment with 16.94%.
As for the expected earnings for 2014, they expect 2PM's total sales (excluding expenses) to be 21 billion KRW ($18.2 million), 2AM's to be 1.9 billion KRW ($1.6 million), Wonder Girls' to be 490 million KRW ($424,000), and JJ Project's to be 8.3 billion KRW ($7.2 million) – meaning 2PM and JJ Project's sales are expected to increase, while 2AM and Wonder Girls' decrease, which gives you a rough idea of the amount of activities each group may have next year.
Source: No Cut News, Dispatch via allkpop