Update:
All dates and time updated. Start planning those trips.
After performing at SMTown New York in late October, Girls’ Generation will be making a return trip to New York next week to promote their music and meet with fans. (Note: All times are EST.)
The following is the girls’ schedule in New York:
Monday, January 30th
10:00 AM Arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport
Tuesday, January 31st:
1:00 PM Arrive at the Ed Sullivan Theater (219 West 53rd, New York, NY 10019) to tape “The Late Show with David Letterman”
5:15 PM Begin taping of “The Late Show with David Letterman”
Wednesday, February 1st:
7:45 AM Arrive at ABC Studios (7 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023) to tape “LIVE! with Kelly”
9:00 AM Begin taping of “LIVE! with Kelly”
Thursday, February 2nd:
7:00 PM Girls’ Generation In-Store Autograph Signing (52 East 14th St., New York, NY 10003)
Soshified will be sponsoring a “Super Fan Contest” for all SONEs who come to New York to see Girls’ Generation. Fans that attend each of the four Girls’ Generation events listed below will receive a stamp* on their flyer and fans with at least three stamps will be entered for a chance to meet and take a group picture with Girls’ Generation and receive an autographed CD. Each member of Girls’ Generation will select the winners by random drawing at the Best Buy In-Store Autograph Signing event on Thurs. February 2, 2012. (*Each event will have differently colored stamps)
Flyers with contest rules and event and prize details will be distributed at each event, and every fan who attends each event at the designated time will receive a different-colored stamp at each event on one’s flyer.
Seven fans who attend all three events prior to the fan-signing and who come the Union Square Best Buy on February 2nd will be randomly selected by Girls’ Generation as winners of this contest.
In addition to this “Super Fan Contest”, Soshified is also sponsoring a “Facebook Contest”. Fans who attend any of the aforementioned events must take a photograph at the event and post it on their Facebook pages. Fans can then send their pictures of the event and a screenshot of the picture posted on their Facebook pages via e-mail to [email protected]. Two fans with the best pictures will be chosen, have their pictures posted on Soshified, and win autographed Girls’ Generation merchandise.
Stay tuned to Soshified for more details on Girls’ Generation’s visit to New York as well as Soshified’s fan contests.
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yyeah it was amazing !! <3333
Waa I’m so proud of them ^^
I loved Snsd performances my sister and i screaming at the tv when they started singing the intro for the boys i almost cried it was a amazing moment! :) I am glad some US Sones got to see them even if there was some confussion at the fan meet.
i have seen the show, they had the great performance and i love the new version of “the boys”.
Does anybody know how long are they going to be in newyork ?
ah that was awesome but the security guard(?) was really annoying & he miscounted in the beginning so i thought i wasn’t able to see the girls & i was really sad that sica wasn’t there since she’s my fave & i was looking forward to seeing her prettiness in person. i was so nervous meeting them that i only said hi and thank you >__>;;; i said a bit more to taeyeon <3 sigh i wished i asked for a handshake but my hands were too sweaty lool. but yeah, worth the bus ride and wait despite the management and people that were trying to cut…(:
Wish I could have been there! But here are some more photos from AP:
http://www.apimages.com/Search.aspx?st=det&sort=date&ids=Girls%20Generation%20In-Store&showact=events&prds=10002&intv=3d&sh=10&kwstyle=or&adte=1328257303&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&
I see a few disappoint fans who weren’t able to get in the fansign event, but you know? I hope you guys, actually everyone, get to read supertae’s Tumblr post on his/her experience of waiting outside despite not being able to see the girls. It reminded me of the very definition of “sone.” And it brought the word “fan” to a whole new level for me.
They allowed 250 more people to enter and gave them a poster for each member to sign! I was one of the lucky ones.
Aww! You are so lucky!!! I was so close to being part of that extra 250, but they closed it the moment I got near </3
I would've loved to get a chance to meet the girls, but I ran to the bus to see them get on. I got to see Taeyeon smile at us, and Tiffany and Hyoyeon took pics of the crowd! My 3 biases <3
So I could have gotten in anyways? Why didnt I wait around for a few more hours? I may never get over this depression.
lucky for u,State Sone’s…sigh,i wish i was there
Where did these rumors of the wristband admittance spring up from anyway? If it was Best Buy, that’s just unprofessional for not clarifying anything. I woke up at 4AM just to ready myself and I see Soy’s tweet about the whole wristband thing being false. Later that morning I hear that there’s hundreds of people waiting so I just gave up even going. I still want to know what happens at the signing, so if it doesn’t trouble anybody, fill me in on what happens at the signing, or how it turns out in the end.
same here since I end school at 1 I thought I could get to Best Buy and just wait in line….but when I heard about the 300 people limit so I just gave up. Now I am planning going to Korea to go to a fan signing -.-
well she said it was false because she wanted to come and get in FIRST before everyone that has been waiting and people tweeted her saying its not right.. so she said that i was false and that we were waiting for nothing. and soo they only allowed 300 people to get wristbands.. and I was a lucky one along with my sisters ^^
Can someone please reply. O.K, I see the comments saying they went at 6:00 am and stuff. In the soshi page it said fan signing will start at 7pm. Is this website wrong. Did I just miss a chance to meet SNSD because I didn’t know what time it actually started?
The 6am line was to get wristbands for the 7pm autograph signing. There were only 300 wristbands given out. But Best Buy said no lines could be formed before 6am but they did form and they didnt care ._. .
I hope the worst for best buy in the future for kicking us out and not even following their own rules
For those 300 fans, I hope the worst for them n trust me karma will get u back for cheating the rules and cutting
Honestly people just cheated and were rewarded n I love how poorly the respectful ones were treated
Smh, goes to show that rules r for nothing and the ones who follow them r never rewarded
YEAH! ALOT of them freaking cut the line and that pissed me off to NO end!!! But i FAITHFULLY waited in Line despite how far back i was… my friends were in the front.. but i didn;t skip the line. i think i deserved my wristband cause i was in the freezing cold at 4am just to get a wristband at 8am.
@lk2500
Can I guess you got a wristband or weren’t even there?
If i was to be there at lets say 5:45 and I see people starting to line up and I didn’t get a ticket then I wouldn’t be upset. but to get there early and see the line already going around the block and not get tickets its unfair. They said that any lines before 6am would be broken. Its not that some of us weren’t willing to sacrifice some sleep or time and get there extra early. if i knew this would happen I would have been there yesterday. Thats way happens when you follow the rules. They did try to organize everything but I could see so many people cutting, there was this one guy that was in front of me and when i was leaving I saw him all the way in the front. but then again I guess I expected to much by expecting what was said would happen.
Sorry to hear that and I agree with everything you’re saying – except the part about blaming others.
I had a pretty good feeling this would all happen, take a look at my early posts in the Live with Kelly thread. Best Buy obviously had no idea that so many fans for a foreign group would show up. Therefore, I would not have been surprised at all to see what you are seeing.
I’m about as far away from NY that you can get on the continental US (near Seattle). I can’t even buy the CD in local stores (no stock). If I had gotten a wristband I certainly wouldn’t be here waving it in your face :)
Anyway, sorry all you guys couldn’t get in. Hopefully this whole experience will open some doors for the girls and they’ll be able to return with more fan events.
ok I see you weren’t there. thank you.
That’s terrible :( seeing as though i live in Bellevue (Near Seattle), my sister got the signatures for me and told me that there were no problems. They shouldn’t have made a limit on the wristbands though. My sister had to wait 7 hours for the wristbands and 3 hours just for the signing… Anyways, hope you werent too sad :( with the outcome and I dont get the point of cutting in line…
Right now…karaoke and food job :)
Why is it only limited to 300? I’m probably still gonna go to see the girls even if I can’t get my cd signed, had preordered it from bb. Sounds like most of us had no chance to get the wristband.
Can I guess most of the posters here are younger?
I’m mid 40’s so perhaps I can be the voice of reason….
You all knew this would happen so why is everybody complaining? Don’t expect people to cater to you or for good things to just “happen” just because this person or web page said that or this… You all knew there were no guarantees of anything at all and it was going to be a VERY long shot at getting a wristband.
Let it go, enjoy the experience, don’t be depressed things didn’t go your way, and thank those who did their best to try to apply some sort of organization to this mess. If the worst thing that happens to you today is that you wasted a few hours and didn’t get an autograph it’s still a heck of a good day. Sit and watch the girl’s Letterman performance over and over and cheer yourself up!
Sorry SNSD Taeyeon #1 that wasn’t meant to be directed at you – but just to the group in general. I don’t see any way to edit it :(
Hi- this post is in response to lk2500 – I’m so glad to see someone “older” ones on here (I’m a few years younger than you, in my 30s). I hope you can post over on the thread I started “Over 30s Samchon/Eemo Fans in the Soshified Around the World Forum, trying to see who else is of the older crowd on here.
Appreciate your reminder to the kids (I think I can say that) to relax as there’s not much we can do, but I agree that hopefully this will be a learning experience for the organizers and possibly improve on a better process. I actually live in NYC, but not going to any of these cause I am working.
I have a good feeling about SNSD holding a concert possibly in the near future in the States (hopefully this year), whether on the East or West Coast, I’ll definitely try to go. So we all have that to look forward to!
Finally, I want to remind all you SONEs (young and old) to please be careful out there (I noticed reading how a lot of people are driving or coming from long distances and hanging out/loitering), so please think of safety first and try to be considerate of your fellow SONEs, don’t venture alone anywhere in the City w/out be accompanied by your friends. Wouldn’t want to break the Girls’ hearts if any of their fans got hurt.
Take care all! And hoping to see the Fancams and fan account from Best Buy posted soon!
i arrived at 6:01 and thought it’d be okay because on the best buy facebook page they said that all lines formed before 6 am would be broken up. but when i arrived a minute after 6 after taking the subway from a different state the line went around a couple of blocks. -.- then after waiting for an hour best buy employees said the 300 were already there and we could only get cds. then they said that instead of getting cds at 8, we’d get them at 10. then they told us to leave or they would call the police because we were “soliciting” >:O .
Then i saw that Oanh said that the 300 wristband thing is not true. i’m so confused and mad T_T
Sorry for a long comment but I am just so depressed and angry this chance has slipped by now when I looking forward to it when I first heard it.
from what ive been hearing I completely agree that they should have done more to keep everything in order and yes lots of people camped outside…. even though I wasnt there…im really sorry you didnt get the chance :(
truth be told the management of the line was terrible. I was there at around 4 30 and I saw people have been camping out the whole time. Best buy employees telling people to go away? Lies. They did nothing at all. There was no management of the line at all. I was literally 20 people away from being the 300 people Since people cut the line i lost my chance to see one of my favorite girl groups of all time. People were cutting in the line and the best buy employees saw it. One came up to me and the people around me it was because people were cutting the line and she saw. The. Whole. Thing. If she saw it why didn’t she tell then to stop? I lost my chance to meet snsd because of the of care and management of this event. I wish people can see how important cutting in line is and set something up to prevent it.
omg wth didnt think there was so much people, i arrived at 6:30 and there was already 300ppl and i thought they were supposed to sell at 8am what happened?!