Here's a shot of the girls with their crowns, from earlier today!

the show was amazing, I saw it on stream!

There was alot of energy.
They performed Fire, Can't Nobody, Lonely and I am the best. (I think I missed one)

Bommie looked more tired in Lonely. Minzy's hair looked so amazing.

Thoughts on their performance (you can still watch it at http://live.mtviggy.com/best-new-band-concert They are interviewed in the beginning, but their performance doesn't start until around 01:47:00)?

I thought they rocked it, though I was a little disappointed that they only got a little over 10 minutes (I'd assumed that, because they were the winners, they'd get a little longer). Still, it was an awesome 10 minutes.

Also, I WANT THEIR CLOTHES. Especially Bom's red and black question mark dress! :heart



They did such a good job! Go 2NE1!!:heart



Thanks, that was an interesting read!

Damnit! I wanted to go so badly but alas I had to work. Oh well. Maybe they'll come back to NY for an actual full length concert of some sort.

omg, HDnesssss......they all look damn amazing. all of those people are so lucky that im crying :weep 2ne1, i must see you one day before i leave this world :cry

i wish i could have seen this on tv last night. i really wanna show my boyfriend 2ne1!

THEY ARE THE BEST.

same same Oh man I hope they do

I couldn't watch their performance from the stream when it was aired for the first time and I was sad about it. I'm happy I was able to see it now as a recorded live though. 2NE1 was awesome~ :luv2

Does anyone know if they're still in NYC?

^No, they're back in Korea. :)

*sniff* that was so fast

i'm watching their performance in Times Square and i have to say that it seems really unorganized. not on their part, but on MTV's part or something. i dunno, they could've had more dancers and better sound equipment i think. the performance was good, but not as exciting as their normal performances are. D:

i was REALLY happy to see them perform in America though, even though i think it could've been a better quality performance on MTV's part.

sorry, double post. CL was interviewed by BBC. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16212073

2NE1 being played here in Germany on the radio since their NY performance? Really?
Didn't hear it till now.
But I'm not listening that often to radio. :laugh

I love CL's english, so cool she got interviewed by the BBC.

sometimes I tend to think CL would go off solo too soon. then I remember it's YG and you can go solo while still staying in the group. but if she would go solo she'd be the Korean Nicki Minaj but X100 moar epic :)

^ she would do amazing if she went solo :)

but there would be no more 2NE1 then,like there is no BIG BANG without GD

^ Now we wouldn't want that...:no.

I hope CL would go solo too :P but I think YG has age considerations before hence the CL &Minzy pair. She definitely has a long long way :)

I watched the whole TBS version of NOLZA IN JAPAN!
their sining was perfect and there was so much powaaaaaaa
buying the dvd, whenever it'll be released!

:luv2

CL can go on and do her solo works as long as she stays with the band *fingers crossed*

This. :yes

2NE1's 1st Japan Tour "NOLZA in Japan" DVD as well as their 2nd Japanese single will be released on February 29th and are now available for preorder. Unfortunately, tracklisting information is not available at this time for either. For each edition of the single as well as the DVD, the first press bonus is a cardboard slipcase.

CDJapan:
Untitled CD+DVD Type A
Untitled CD+DVD Type B
Untitled CD
2NE1 1st Japan Tour "NOLZA in Japan"

YesAsia:
Untitled CD+DVD Type A
Untitled CD+DVD Type B
Untitled CD
2NE1 1st Japan Tour "NOLZA in Japan"

Its a new original song coming up!

(leaves me to wonder when their US debut is gonna be >.<)

Were their solo performances included in the TBS version and how many Japanese songs did they perform?

I'm super excited that they are finally releasing an original Japanese song! I hope the b-side for this single is also original as well although I won't be holding my breath, lol. As far as their US debut, I'm hoping that their MTV Iggy win and the positive response they received when they were here has motivated them to want to release material here sooner rather than later. But with their Japanese activities going on in addition to the Korean activies that's practically guaranteed to happen next year, it's hard to predict.

maybe then they'll use Japanese song and make it into a new Korean song, lol :D

TOP&GD (BIG BANG) unit was included with 3 songs! woooa :luv2

songs in Japanese
Go Away
It hurts
LONELY (I guess)
Hate You
I'M THE BEST
UGLY

all their Japanese released songs so far? :)
the link to TBS version of NOLZA at Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...D&feature=plcp

^ thanks!

omg....check out this Halo cover by minzy! she is truly amazing :luv2

^yea she is!! like a solo artiste in-the-making :)

Gorgeous cover :heart She deserves a solo song~~

EDIT:

2NE1 performed at the Seoul-Tokyo Music Festival 2011. They performed I AM THE BEST and UGLY

^ Did they perform other songs as well? or just two?

^No just those two.

NEW JAPANESE ALBUM FOR 2NE1 IN JANUARY!!!!!!!!!!!

and they will not be at KBS Music festival (along with KARA), because they'll both be at Japan Gold Disk Awards

^ I read big bang wont be there either :(

It's a single. Not an album :)

I thought they hadn't decided yet? YG stated that they weren't sure whether it'll be an album or single yet, but they will be releasing it in February. I hope it's an album. :D

Minzy's cover of Halo was amazing, she deserves a solo song like Bom gets.

Maybe is a mini-album intead of the single (like Secret and their "Shy Boy" release)

oh yes YG stated they ahven't decided whether it'll be an album or a single

http://www.2ne1.jp/discography/index.html

On the 22nd, they announced on their official Japanese website that they will be releasing a new single as well as their "NOLZA in Japan" concert DVD on February 29th. In the fourth post on this page, preorder links have been posted for both CDJapan and YesAsia. HMV also has it listed with an exclusive A3 sized poster.

It was decided to be a single quite a while ago... O.O

PARK BOM - YOU & I feat. HER SISTER!

I lovce her voice)

ugh, I want that DVD so bad :( beautiful live!

so a japanese single with original track ? nice.
thanks for posting bom's perf and minzy's cover <3

The live of park bom and her sister is so nice!

Wow, Bom sounded so nice!

credits; allkpop

Well, I don't really care that she's a 2NE1 fangirl, I just care about this article because it she mentioned 2NE1 in a Dutch magazine :laugh

More and more western stars are saying they are fans of 2NE1, they're the first asian artist I know to do so well in the west without even releasing their album yet! As a huge blackjack I am so proud. They are going to rawk America, I am confident! I hope Will.I.Am doesn't mess up with producing their songs. But 2NE1 are awesome enough to make any song an original piece of awesome, I have full faith! :D

I am DYING waiting for this English album! Will.i.am said they've recorded 8 songs entirely finished (back in April) and were recording 2 more, then it's ready for release..

Hurry up from Japan, I can't talk it any longer @_@ I wanna hear them on the radio!

That's so cool, I hope that means they won't have much problem being popular in the usa and even worldwide with their english album x) and I hope will.i.am did great with the album too :3

Awesome that 2NE1 is so popular in the west. I hope their English album will also be a great success whenever it's released. <3 It would be so awesome to hear their songs on western radio *_*

^Yes it would! I'm still looking forward to that day :bsigh

I love you Kat :luv2 I'm so proud of 2NE1 <333

Whenever a foreign artist is about to record an all English-language album, I get really anxious. I feel like it'll be difficult for them to truly show the American public what they're like and about. The lyrics are rarely as good as those in their native languages, and there'll be endless comparisons drawn between them and Western artists. I've only listened to a handful of 2NE1's songs, so I can't say much about them, but good luck to them. I'm likely to give the album a listen once it's out, so I hope I'll be proven wrong.

Super confused here (Seems the way with Korean artists) on what releases I need to get.

About to place an order for the following:

2NE1 - First Mini Album
2NE1 - Vol. 1 To Anyone
2NE1 - Mini Album Volume 2
2NE1 - Nolza

I'm assuming the 2NE1 Japan release: http://www.yesasia.com/global/2ne1-j...0-en/info.html
as well as the Taiwan release: http://www.yesasia.com/global/2ne1-c...0-en/info.html
are just a selection of Korean tracks?

ah yes you're right about their japanese & taiwanese releases, nice album orders there :)
buying kpop albums is confunsing eh XD (agreed)

so the whole YG crew is back for YG FAMILY JAPANESE CONCERT
BIG BANG & 2NE1 are currently in Japan :)

cool, they'll surely rock japan! :D

Order placed now :) Can't wait to receive the items. I forewent the Japan singles sadly. I'm sure all the PV's and tracks will be on the album :)

I wanted to ask, does anyone have their Taiwan Version of their albums that come with the MV's? I just wanted to know the packaging that they came in and how they compared with the Korean releases of their albums.

The Taiwan versions have DVD's and I think that's a good bonus to get the music videos, but I don't want to get them if they are in inferior packaging/quality.

CL's unreleased English rap for Go Away. It's so badass :heart
she performed it at the Nolza in Japan.

If this isn't in the english version of Go Away (if they make one) , I'm going to kill something.

Omg, this should've been released :heart

wow that's cool. CL! <3

Here's the performance clip of GO AWAY with only CL's english rap:




Here's the performance of the whole song with the ending of the concert clip:



I absolutely love it! It's all the more reason to buy the DVD. I was a bit on the fence about buying the DVD since I bought their Korean Tour DVD, but with this and their performance of some of their Japanese songs, it's a must have!

According to their official Japanese website, they have decided to push the release date of their upcoming single (which was supposed to be released the 29th of this month) forward to March 28th. In addition to the single, they will also be releasing their currently untitled first Japanese album on March 28th as well and it will come in 4 editions, one of which will be a HMV/Lawson exclusive. Also, Season 1 and 2 Boxsets of 2NE1 TV will be released on March 21st.

Here is the current available information on the tracklisting for each edition (Credit: YGLadies):

http://i.imgur.com/rwT8K.png

is NOLZA put into this too???? only one original song?
i hope YG don milk Japanese fans lol...

Although nothing is written in stone yet as the full tracklist hasn't been revealed, I personally don't believe that they'll include all of NOLZA in this album. Based on the information provided, it seems like they've already chosen the songs from previous releases that are going to be on the album (3 songs from "NOLZA" and both songs from their "GO AWAY" single in addition to the 3 new songs (2 which are remakes)) and the rest will probably be Japanese versions of their other Korean songs and songs from their upcoming single (I have a sneaking suspicion that the new songs they listed are going to be on that single). And after the controversy with "HATE YOU", I think it would be unwise for them to include it. But if they do happen to put all of "NOLZA" in the album, I will be severely pissed off.

I hope there are at least 4 original tracks :laugh

THEY ARE RELEASING THE ALBUM THE SAME DAY WITH BIG BANG JAPANESE ALBUM!!! :luv2

what really ? It's a YG War then !!!

Just ordered my CD&2DVD copy. Bargain to get all the Korean PV's as well with that version, can't wait!

Cover of 2NE1 1st Japan Tour "NOLZA in Japan" DVD from 2NE1's Official Japanese Website:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/...AVBY-58031.jpg

I just preordered the DVD! I'm going to preorder the CD+2DVD version of their upcoming album next week!

ALL of their Korean videos? Damn, that's pretty cool. Too bad I just bought the CD+DVD of their 2nd mini. That CD+2DVD is looking pretty tempting though.

Isn't that japanese album just a Best album?
CDJapan send me a note that it's a best.

It's a best of their Korean tracks sung in Japanese along with a few bonus Japanese exclusive tracks.

Yeah, but from all those reactions here, people seemed not to notice it's just a best.
I'm actually not that excited. They don't have to turn every korean song into japanese (sarcasm much).
The only interesting things are the goodies coming with it.

At the time when most of our posts were posted, information regarding this album being a "best" album was unavailable, so it wasn't that it went unnoticed. The album wasn't available for preorder on CDJ until a little while after information on their website became available and even when they put it up, the first description that they had never mentioned it was a best album until it was updated later. Just wanted to clarify, lol.

But anyways, I personally think that people are more excited about having all of their Korean MVs on DVD more than anything else (and the photobook). Although them remaking so many of their songs in Japanese doesn't bother me as much as it used to, I would have preferred for them to go the same route as other groups and only remake a few songs and then start making new, original music. But hopefully after this album is released, their future releases will be all new music.

So we will get new songs? Or just Korean tracks sung in Japanese?

According to the information available to us now, there will be one original song in addition to Korean tracks sung in Japanese. Since there are only 7 tracks listed out of the 10 that are supposed to be on the album, we're unsure about the other 3 tracks.

^I see. Thank you :)

Even though I said I was going to wait until next week, I just preordered the CD+2DVD+Photobook version of their album on YA. I got too impatient to wait, lol. I am quite curious about HMV's exclusive limited edition though. I want to see what the towel and bag look like.

Wow it's been a little while since I've kept up with 2NE1. I'm glad to see we're getting a full Japanese album :).

oops I wasn't aware that it's a best album! perhaps I might consider of getting it if they release an OS Press

Feels like I haven't been in this thread in forever, and NO new songs?? I haven't been in here since like, 2011.

If anybody in the US doesn't have their first mini-album, it's now available on iTunes :D

I'm excited to hear original Japanese songs from them.

The official tracklist for both the single and album have been updated on their official Japanese website:

Album Title: "COLLECTION"

CD Tracklist:
SCREAM
FIRE
I DON'T CARE
FOLLOW ME
LOVE IS OUCH
CLAP YOUR HANDS
GO AWAY
I AM THE BEST
UGLY
IT HURTS

DVD1 Tracklist:
<MUSIC CLIP (JAPANESE VERSION)>
SCREAM
I AM THE BEST
UGLY
HATE YOU
LONELY
GO AWAY

DVD2 Tracklist:
<MUSIC CLIP (ORIGINAL VERSION)>
FIRE (SPACE)
FIRE (STREET)
I DON'T CARE
FOLLOW ME
CLAP YOUR HANDS
IT HURTS
CAN'T NOBODY (ENG. VER.)

*The order of the songs and PVs are still pending

Single Title: "SCREAM"

CD Tracklist:
SCREAM
TBA
SCREAM (Remix) (CD Only Edition Only)

DVD A Tracklist:
SCREAM MUSIC CLIP
MAKING MOVIE
2NE1 VACATION

DVD B Tracklist:
2NE1 TV SEASON 3 HIGHLIGHT

I thought it was supposed to include all their Korean PV's, not just the ones that don't have a Japan version of the track. Grrr

Ooooh I'm exciiiteeed.

Just arrived (with some other stuff) Now to get my listening on :)

http://i43.tinypic.com/1g5ff7.jpg

^woot enjoy those stuff! :heart

I hope scream will be good

I like the title, 2NE1 always on top thanks to Teddy-oppa, if he's the composer of new signle it'll be a big hit. I love Teddy thanks to his music for 2NE1 & BIG BANG

Since I purchased the CD+DVD version of their mini album with the music videos (I see you did as well), I personally would have preferred that they included the Korean versions of the PVs instead of the Japanese versions since they were already released (If I would have known they were going to do this, I would have just purchased the CD only version of "NOLZA"). Other than that, it doesn't bother me too much that they've made the cut since they're so similiar to the Korean versions. As far as "GO AWAY", I am disappointed that the Korean PV wasn't included since it's completely different from the Japanese version. I also would have liked "Kiss", "You & I", and "Don't Cry" to be included but I understand why they didn't since the whole group aren't on those songs. I do think that they could have included the Korean version of "Can't Nobody", but the videos are so similiar that they probably just deciding to just go with the English version since it was released as a digital single in Japan. "Lollipop" and "Don't Stop The Music" were probably excluded because they were used to promote other companies. Overall, I'm satisfied but it still doesn't seem complete.

I hope SCREAM is a another great dance track.
Looking forward to the single!

Besides hearing the title track of the single, I'm really curious about what the b-side will be (is it going to be one of the tracks from the album tracklist that's already been posted or is it going to be a new song that's exclusive to the single?) and the 2NE1 Vacation content. It's being speculated that it's going to from their recent vacation in the Phillipines but I hope we get more information about it soon. BTW, here are pics of the goods that come with HMV's exclusive edition of the album:

http://www.2ne1.jp/discography/image...36/2ne1_b2.jpg

http://www.2ne1.jp/discography/image...036/2ne1_t.jpg

mm what are those things ? I hate the colors anyway x_x

I'm not sure how 'I AM THE BEST' and 'Ugly' can be on that album, when it's already been released in their Japanese Mini Album? D: That confuses me.

Can't wait to hear Scream!

Those are the goods that come with the HMV limited edition CD Only version of "Collection". According to the description on HMV, it's a logo takeout bag and a face towel.

Oohhh looking forward to the new release!