Need Another Dose of K-Pop? Take A Listen to BIGBANG

BIGBANG's sound started off very hip hop/hip pop and R&B oriented but their more recent music is more pop and dance.


Debuted in 2006 with the BIGBANG EP featuring the songs "We Belong Together," "A Fool's Only Tears," and an adaptation of the Maroon 5 song "This Love."BIGBANG - WE BELONG TOGETHER M/V My personal favorite BIGBANG - A FOOL OF TEARS (눈물뿐인 바보) M/V

Are known for their urban fashion and music style. Are very respected within the music industry for their involvement in the composing and production of their songs.

Members (going from left to right across the top):

T.O.P or TOP (Choi Seung-hyun): rapper --November 4, 1987

Taeyang or SOL (Dong Young-bae): vocalist --May 18, 1988

G-Dragon or GD (Kwon Ji-yong): main rapper, leader --August 18, 1988

Seungri or V.I. (Lee Seung-hyun): vocalist, Maknae --December 12, 1990

Daesung or D-Lite (Kang Dae-sung): vocalist --April 26, 1989

Their big break came after the release of the song "Lies" which stayed at number one on the Korean music charts for a record breaking seven weeks. From 2007-2008 they received many awards "Best Male Group", "Song of the Year", "Artist of the Year", and the Grand Award at the Seoul Music Awards.

In 2009-2010 they expanded their audience into Japan and became the first foreign group to receive the "Best Newcomer" award from the Japan Cable Broadcasting Station and "Best New Artist" at MTV Japan. Taeyang, G-Dragon and Seungri have all branched out to make solo projects. TOP and G-Dragon collaborated on an album as GD & TOP.

They returned in 2011 after a two year hiatus with the release of Tonight EP and shortly after released Alive EP. Both received positive reviews from critics and fans.

"Fantastic Baby"-- BIGBANG - FANTASTIC BABY M/V

"Bad Boy"-- BIGBANG - BAD BOY M/V 

Albums (these are only their Korean albums they've also released Japanese albums):
Since 2007 (2006)
Remember (2008)
Always EP (2007)
Hot Issue EP (2007)
Stand Up EP (2008)
Tonight EP (2011)
Alive EP (2012)

Special editions (albums rereleased with bonus tracks) Tonight (2011)
Still Alive (2012) **all albums can be found on iTunes**

Singles We Belong Together (2006)
La La La (2006) BIGBANG (2006)

Solo Albums: Taeyang:
--Hot (2008)
--Solar (2010)
"Only Look at Me"-- TAEYANG - ONLY LOOK AT ME (나만 바라봐) M/V

Daesung --D'scover (2013)
TAEYANG - ONLY LOOK AT ME (나만 바라봐) M/V

G-Dragon:
 --Heartbreaker (2009)
 --GD & TOP (2010)
 --One of a Kind (2012) "One of a Kind"-- G-DRAGON - ONE OF A KIND M/V

T.O.P:
--GD & TOP (2010) "Turn it Up"-- T.O.P - TURN IT UP M/V [HD]

Seungri: --VVIP (2011) "What Can I Do"--TAEYANG - ONLY LOOK AT ME (나만 바라봐) M/V **all albums can be found on iTunes except Daesung/D-Lite's D'scovery**

How I found out about them:

Around the same time I was looking up Block B, I accidentally selected TOP's "Turn it Up." I liked it but I'd completely forgotten about it until earlier this week. I looked up TOP on Wikipedia and saw that he was apart of this group BIGBANG. After watching some of their more recent videos like "Fantastic Baby" I initially didn't like them (mainly because I'm not a big fan of electro-pop, but I'm learning to like it). And the video for "Bad Boy" was so unintentionally and adorably funny I couldn't stop myself from loving them.

I then started watching some of their earlier music videos like "A Fool's Only Tears" and they reminded me so much of past boy bands like B2K (remember them?) and Nsync, my love for them grew even more. I have to admit that I love their older songs and solo songs a little more, but I'm learning to love their newer ones. For more up to date info on BIGBANG check out their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BIGBANG




Maria-Elena Amour is a fellow BGN that loves comic books, zombie shows like The Walking Dead and has an affinity for Hello Kitty. She's Blasian (half black, half asian), a fangirl who enjoys drawing, watching TV and movies, and periodically gaming. She started drawing Hello Kitty along with her favorite superheroes, villains, and others.  You can follow her on Twitter HERE