GD Winning USA FUSE TV’s Race to be “International-Pop Best New Artist”
[스타뉴스 길혜성 기자] Boy Band Big Bang (G-Dragon, Top, Taeyang, Dae Sung, Seungri)’s lead singer G-Dragon has won American music channel FUSE TV’s race to be “International-Pop Best New Artist”, after a fierce competition with Mexican female singer Belinda.
For the first round of competition to be the best new artist of each genre, FUSE TV took votes from fans around the globe on its web-site and application, from the end of August to September 10 at 9 p.m. (KST)
G-Dragon was one of the runners of the race to be the best new artist in the international pop genre, with 2NE1’s lead singer CL (Korea), Belinda (Mexico), Kyari Pamyu Pamyu (Japan), Priyanka Chopra (India), and D’banj (Nigeria). The voting for the first round of the race was conducted on 72 artists around the world in 12 genres including electronic/dance, indie rock, teen pop, international pop, hip-hop, underground hip-hop, R&B, soul, folk/country, punk, and metal/hard rock.
After a nip-and-tuck competition with Belinda during the first round of voting, G-Dragon finally won the race with vote-obtaining rate higher than 50%, to be the best new artist in the international pop segment. This will make G-Dragon compete in the second-round voting where every four of the winners of 12 segments across genres will compete again in one of three divisions (pop/dance, hip-hop/R&B. rock/country/indie). G-Dragon’s advance to the second round once again clearly shows his high popularity not only in Korea but also all over the world.
If G-Dragon wins the second round again, he will go to the third round where one and only best new artist in the world will be selected.
On its news show at 9:00 in the morning on the 11, FUSE TV officially announced the winners of 12 genres who will advance to the second round. Now, FUSE TV is opening the next voting for the second round which starts at 9:30 a.m. on the same day.
Meanwhile, G-Dragon released tracks in Part 1 and Part 2 of his second full solo album “COUP D’ETAT” on the 2 and 5 this month respectively, which has shown a great momentum of sweeping number one places not only in Korea’s major music charts but also in iTunes main single and album charts of many countries.
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