SM Entertainment Artists Make Huge Wins in KpopStarz ‘Best’ of 2013 Polls -TVXQ, f(x), EXO Show Popularity

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SM Entertainment artists TVXQ, f(x), and EXO prove their agency's K-Pop dominance as the winners of the three KpopStarz 2013 year-end poll categories.

After two weeks of voting from all of you K-Pop lovers, Song of the Year goes to girl group f(x) for their hit single "Rum Pum Pum Pum" while their label-mates TVXQ earned the distinction of K-Pop group who expanded the most globally this year. EXO member Kai beat out his group-mates for the status of Artist of the Year coming in ahead of Tao, Kris, and Luhan

"Rum Pum Pum Pum" proved to still be a big hit half a year after its release, earning f(x) the well-deserved title of KpopStarz 2013 Song of the Year.

It is a tune reminiscent of summer, having been released at the height of the summer heat. Now that it is winter and f(x) may be hibernating from the limelight, it looks like their catchy summer single was memorable enough to earn them the prestigious Song of the Year crown.

Out of the list of 50 songs the KpopStarz team compiled, f(x)'s "Rum Pum Pum Pum" garnered slightly over a quarter of the votes with 26.8%.

They even beat out EXO's massive hit "Growl" which came out in the second spot with 20.56% of the vote. EXO, however, did earn the distinction of being the only group with two songs in the top ten as "Wolf" wound up in the seventh spot.

Quite a distance later at #3, SISTAR got 9.56% of the vote.

The Top 10 is certainly a diverse group with CNBLUE's "I'm Sorry', Kim Hyun Joong's "Unbreakable", Kim Jaejoong's "Just Another Girl", Girls' Generation's "I Got a Boy" and Junsu's "Incredible" all making appearances. Tied in tenth place with 1.76% of the vote each are LC9's "Mama Beat" and "Trap" by Henry.

TVXQ continued to show their international popularity by coming in at the top of the list of 41 K-Pop acts with global influence.

In a very familiar looking top three, the duo scored 23.43% of the vote beating out f(x) and EXO with 22.39% and 17.92% of fan votes respectively.

A big jump in votes later and SISTAR come in at number 4 with 7.7% above CNBLUE's 5.58% and JYJ's 4.73%. Rounding out the top ten are Super Junior (3.16%), Girls' Generation (3.08%), T-ARA (1.84%), and 2PM (1.28%).

For the KpopStarz 2013 Artist of the Year, there was an exhaustive list of 226 idols to choose from, but it was the members of EXO who proved to be the biggest stars.

Kai receives the top honors with 32.58% of fan votes followed closely behind by his group-mates Tao (21.52%), Kris (19.56%), and Luhan (13.5%) in the next three spots. Lay also made an appearance in the top ten list coming in at number seven with 1.65% of the vote.

After the top four spots went to EXO members, there weren't many more votes to go around. In a very distant fifth place JYJ member Yoochun nabbed only 2.11%.

Victoria of f(x) and SISTAR's Hyolyn were the only female singers in the top ten, coming in at numbers six and nine with 2.02% and 0.83% respectively. TVXQ's Yunho (1.19%) and CNBLUE leader Yonghwa (0.68%) rounded out the top ten in eighth and tenth place.

So there you have it, your KpopStarz 2013 Poll winners!

Thanks to all of you who voted and a big congratulations to the winners!

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