{"id":26853,"date":"2022-05-15T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=26853"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:43:52","slug":"music-bank-strongly-criticized-after-le-sserafim-beat-lim-young-woong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/music-bank-strongly-criticized-after-le-sserafim-beat-lim-young-woong\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Bank strongly criticized after LE SSERAFIM beat Lim Young Woong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <strong>Music Bank<\/strong>&#8216;s broadcast on the afternoon of May 13th,<strong> Lim Young Woong<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;If We Ever Meet Again&#8221; and <strong>LE SSERAFIM<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;FEARLESS&#8221; were nominated for the first place of the second week of May.<\/p>\n<p>During the announcement, the rookie girl group <strong>scored<\/strong> a total of 7881 points, with 5348 points in the programs, 544 points in the music charts, 1955 points in the album\/disc and 34 points in the social networking category.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lim Young Woong topped with 1148 points in music chart and 5885 points in record\/album, but did not score any points in <strong>broadcasts<\/strong>. As a result, the national singer came in second place by a narrow margin with a total score of 7,035 points.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LesserafimIoops\/status\/1525044679120670720\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LE_SSERAFIM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LE_SSERAFIM<\/a> got their 2nd win today at Music bank \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FEARLESS2ndWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FEARLESS2ndWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LESSERAFIM2ndWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LESSERAFIM2ndWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDmNixfDyC\">pic.twitter.com\/BDmNixfDyC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GALA (@kimgarampicture) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimgarampicture\/status\/1525044679120670720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>When LE SSERAFIM was announced as the <strong>winner<\/strong> of this week&#8217;s program, the sextet was surprised. They sent their message of thanks to HYBE officials and their fans who supported their pitch.<\/p>\n<p>However some of the male singer&#8217;s fans and Korean viewers who heard the news are showing a cold response.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Critics<\/strong> raised suspicions about the &#8220;fairness&#8221; of the ranking, where a newcomer won against a prominent singer.<\/p>\n<p>People pointed out that compared to the group, Lim Young Woong has <strong>sold<\/strong> more than 1.1 million albums, more than LE SSERAFIM&#8217;s record of 300,000 sales.<\/p>\n<p> In context, album sales are a huge metric to measure the <strong>popularity<\/strong> of an artist, based on the purchasing power of their fan base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Music Bank&#8216;s broadcast on the afternoon of May 13th, Lim Young Woong&#8216;s &#8220;If We Ever Meet Again&#8221; and LE SSERAFIM&#8216;s &#8220;FEARLESS&#8221; were nominated for the first place of the second week of May. During the announcement, the rookie girl group scored a total of 7881 points, with 5348 points in the programs, 544 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":26856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1672],"class_list":["post-26853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kpop","tag-le-sserafim"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}