RAIN, One The People Who Shape Our World according to TIME magazine

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by andre2907

Oh, and about being the best-selling album in China. Yes, I can't be sure about that because there isn't an official list for China but there was an article stating his album was the best-selling. I'll also try to find it. I'm pretty sure it outsold BoA's album, but I don't have anything that state that, so..

I think the album was more like best-seller, and not best-selling as I did read the newspapers that year as Jay Chou sold more than 3 million of his 2004 album and Stef Sun sold at least 1 million for hers.

Just going back to this for a bit:

Originally Posted by andre2907

Saying Bae Yong Jun is popular because of Winter Sonata is the same of saying BoA is popular because of her music..

Not really. An equivalent to your statement would be "Ayu is popular because of her song 'M'" or "BoA is popular because of her song 'VALENTI'". Music is a profession, while Winter Sonata is just a part of it.

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

Not really. An equivalent to your statement would be "Ayu is popular because of her song 'M'" or "BoA is popular because of her song 'VALENTI'". Music is a profession, while Winter Sonata is just a part of it.

That's pointless. I mean, BoA was just a product till not long ago, the same way RAIN is now. Neither of them have almost no power in their carreer. So I think Bae Yong Joon being popular because of Winter Sonata is the same as BoA being popular because for her music, till not long ago BoA was just the one whe who sing the song, she didn't really did anything beside that and promote the song. And that's exactly the same he did, he was there just for acting and promote the product.

And anyway, his last movie was also very popular in Asia and Japan...

That's off-topic, anyway.. :x

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by andre2907

Neither of them have almost no power in their carreer.

Well not really. Yeah, they follow directions from their managers and what not, but they also have input to their ideas. Plus, she's writing her lyrics (don't know about Rain), so she does have some power. Besides, she even owns 100,000 shares of SM....