The Reason Why YG’s Yang Hyun Suk Chose Akdong Musician 2nd

The 2nd runner of YG Family in 2014 has been revealed. It's none other than the rookie brother and sister duo Akdong Musician. These SBS audition program "K-Pop Star 2" winners have already released self-composed songs that swept music charts, even before their debut. The pair is truly a musically talented duo.

Producer Yang Hyun Suk posted on YG's official blog on the 31st, "Last year SBS' 'K-Pop Star 2' began on April 7th. In exactly 1 year since then, last year's winners Akdong Musician will release their first debut album."

On the 21st YG revealed a graphic poster with the words, "Who's Next? 0407" and hinted at YG's 2nd singer to be released this year. Many people thought it would Psy, since he had previously released a music video spoiler. However, according to Yang Hyun Suk the '0407' main event is Akdong Musician.

YG's 1st runner 2NE1 swept music charts in Korea and even jumped the border and ranked highest marks on Billboard Charts in the K-Pop genre. The public was eager to see who would be next.

Yang Hyun Suk said, "All 11 songs on the album will be new songs, and will be entirely written, composed, and produced by Lee Chan Hyuk. It's already been 16 years since YG started producing work, but we've never had this much difficulty choosing a title song as we did for Akdong Musician's 1st album."

Akdong Musician is a sister/brother duo that has the perfect harmony of Lee Chan Hyuk, who has a great talent for composing songs, and his sister Lee Soo Hyun, who has a charming voice. Since they have great power with heir music, it's expected that once they debut, they will show great power in the music charts as well.

They also revealed plans for Akdong Musician's music video. "According to the schedule, the '200%' music video will be released along with the album release. The 'Melted' music video will be released one week later on the 14th, and a final and third title song music video that you all choose will be released before the end of the month."

Yang Hyun Suk continued, "After we reveal the two title songs chosen by YG and Akdong Musician, we will hold an poll through a music site for 7 days. According to the fans' favorite song, we will choose our third title song and go into filming the music video."

During the November 24th broadcast of SBS "K-Pop Star 3," Akdong Musician stated, "It seems like a dream," and shared their feelings on having starred in the previous season.

Akdong Musician also said, "We were just a brother and sister that enjoyed music with guitar in Mongol, but so unexpectedly we're preparing for our album. For us, 'K-Pop Star' was an amazing opportunity."

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