Some facts on the huge popularity of Taeyang's "Eyes, Nose, Lips" 

Some facts on the huge popularity of Taeyang’s “Eyes, Nose, Lips”

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“RISE” is the long-awaited solo album by Bigbang’s Taeyang that was released on June 2. As it took Taeyang four years to finish the album, it is understandable that the songs in the album has stayed on people’s favourite songs lists for quite a long time.

The title track of this album, “Eyes, Nose, Lips” has in particular attracted lots of love not only domestically but also on the international scene! We will share you some facts that shows just how popular this song is.

1. Digitally strong As soon as it was released, the song got an all-kill on not five, seven, or eight..but ten different music charts in the country! Not only that, iTunes in ten different country also crowned Taeyang’s “Eyes, Nose, Lips” as successful chart-toppers.

Despite the arrival of new songs on the chart, the song maintained a top ten position on the charts even after a month. Moreover, for digital chart MelOn, the song stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks!

“Eyes, Nose, Lips” is not only successful in digital charts, it is also regarded as everyone’s favorite song. This song was crowned as the number one favorite song in Karaoke rooms for three consecutive weeks in Gaon Karaoke charts. Not only that, if you pass by a shop, restaurant, or coffee shop in every corner in Korea, you will definitely hear the song beeing played.

Another unique feature of “Eyes, Nose, Lips” is that people just can’t seem to stop doing covers of the song. Taeyang’s fellow YG Entertainment stars, Akdong Musicians, interpreted the song with the duo’s owned color. This was followed by Epik High’s Tablo who created an English version of the song that featured Taeyang as well, and new singer Lydia produced a woman’s version of the song. Those three were part of YG Family’s cover project.

The cover-songs do not only come from artists in the same agency as Taeyang. A rookie group called Lush, soloist Eric Nam, group 2BiC, guitarist Sungha Jung, the latest one MC Jung Hyunmoo and even Tablo’s daughter, Haru, also joined the long lists of cover singers for “Eyes, Nose, Lips”.

It doesn’t stop here; Taeyang also asked his fans to send their own interpretation of the song through an event project.

During promotion time on a TV music program, Taeyang who personally wrote this song gained a total of eight trophies. Those eight trophies include a triple-crown from Mnet’s “M-Countdown” and SBS’ “Inkigayo”.

“Eyes, Nose, Lips”, which is about someone who longs for their ex-lover, dominated music programs throughout the June-July period along with other strong contenders such as BEAST’s “Good Luck”, K.Will’s “Day 1″ and more.

Like the actual song, the music video of the song, which presents Taeyang’s topless upper body, also gained much love. In less than two days, the music video that starred actress Min Hyorin gained one million views on YouTube. The MV was also named as one of most viewed Kpop videos on YouTube in America during the month of June.

With those facts, do you think “Eyes, Nose, Lips” can win this year’s “Song of The Year?”

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