Busker Busker Locks Down The Billboard K-Pop Hot 100, Scoring 8 Songs In The Top 10

Busker Busker drummer Bradley Rae Moore may have rankled some industry insiders with his biting indictment of the K-pop industry in an interview for the Vice Magazine music blog Noisey, but the fans sure don't seem to mind.

Busker Busker owns the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 this week, earning the top four chart rankings and eight songs out of the top 10.

All nine songs from "Busker Busker 2nd Album," released last week, made it into the Billboard K-pop chart, with the song "Juliette" debuting the lowest at number 11.

The group's "Love, At First" is currently in the number one spot on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100. "Too Much Regret" is at number two. "Love Is Timing" is at number three. "Your Lips" is at number four. "A Guy Like Me" is at number five. "Night" is at number six. "Cool Girl" is at number seven. "Beautiful Age" is at number eight. And wrapping up Busker Busker's dominance over the top 10 is the song "Autumn Night," at number nine.

There were only two artists not blown out of the top 10 by Busker Busker this week.

Actor and singer Lim Chang Jung barely managed to muster a top five debut this week, with "A Guy Like Me." The song debuted at number five.

And "Touch Love" from singer Yoon Mi Rae continues to linger on the Billboard K-pop chart, coming in at number 10 in its fifth week on the chart.

But the moment undeniably belonged to Busker Busker.

And what is particularly noteworthy about the notoriously rebellious group's continuing chart dominance is that they ascended to superstar status by playing by their own set of rules.

In Jakob Dorof's article for Noisey, renamed "Made It In Ohio: How Bradley Rae Moore Accidentally Conquered K-Pop" on Friday, after previously having the header "The Great White Hope," the band's American drummer recalled the major corruption Busker Busker faced within the K-pop industry.

"Our sales were in the millions [of dollars]," Moore said about the group's album sales during their two months performing on the reality show "Superstar K."

"One song, 'Makgeollina,' sold $1.4 million in a month and a half. And yet we saw nothing from that. We were kind of a headache for the show. We had a foreigner in the group. My bandmates were young. We can't read sheet music...but every time we recorded a song, it would hit number one."

In a move unprecedented in the K-pop industry, the group eventually signed a six-month record contract with CJ E&M, the entertainment company that produces "Superstar K," before inking a less restrictive deal with their current label, Chungchun Music.

"The time [on CJ E&M], those six months--I mean, it was like [our time on 'Superstar K']. It sucked," Moore said.

"They booked us every day, all day, because contractually they could."

The group's recent success should allow all three members of Busker Busker considerable creative control over their careers, for years to come.

Click HERE to see the full results of this week's Billboard K-Pop Hot 100

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