Girls’ Generation won the gold medal for the first ever Pop Olympics on the music news portal, Popdust.
The Pop Olympics had representatives from America, Canada, Great Britain, and Korea compete against each other in a series of polls to see who was the world’s favorite pop star. In the first round starting from July 23rd, where each country elected a representative, Girls’ Generation received a staggering 4,278,684 votes (49.19%), edging out Big Bang, Wonder Girls, and 2NE1 to represent Korea.
Girls’ Generation went up against Taylor Swift from America, Justin Bieber from Canada, and The Wanted from Great Britain in the final competition of the Pop Olympics.
It was a clean sweep for Girls’ Generation, as they won each of the five categories in convincing fashion: Best Music Video for “MR. TAXI” (66%, 19,598 votes), Hottest Artist (66%, 36,154 votes), Best YouTube Moment for their fun talents at the New York fan meeting (76%, 33,437 Votes), Best Fans (65%, 17,413 Votes), and Best Song for “The Boys” (60%, 157,016 Votes). Voting was held from July 30th until August 6th with a new category being added every day. The Wanted was awarded the silver medal, and Taylor Swift was awarded the bronze.
Popdust was founded in February of 2011 by American music industry moguls including the co-founder of XM Satellite Radio, a top editor from “SPIN” and “Blender” magazines and Billboard, and a Senior Sales Executive from “Vanity Fair”, “Jane”, and “Maxim” magazines.
The turnout was huge in favor of Girls’ Generation for the first Pop Olympics, and they definitely made their presence known as the world’s premiere girl group. Check out Girls’ Generation’s Best YouTube Moment below. As Popdust says, “Seohyun is right: always wear your seatbelt.”
Source: Popdust, [email protected]
Written by: MoonSoshi9@soshified
Edited by: bhost909@soshified
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Their challengers pretty tough…korea or International. Korea-Big Bang, 2NE1 and Wonder girl. International-Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and The Wanted. Their international challengers was caught my attention. Taylor, Bieber and The Wanted pretty famous around the world. And guess what, SONES really powerful too huh??? SNSD can beat them…really…*bow to all SONES* Nothing is impossible for SONES…no wonder SNSD keep on winning every award every year…let us keep on making them winning n breaking all record Sones….HWAITING!!!
amazing girls!! so proud!!
CONGRATS!! Job well done SONES~~~
OH YEAH~~ snsd charms are unstoppable! tht explain the awesomeness of our girls in coming top of all 5 categories! hahas sones and snsd are daebak <3
SNSD hwaiting! <3
it was fun voting, the best thing about popdust is that you can keep voting. It’s not like you just vote once.
Girl’s Generation made them feel the heat! >:D
Lmao. XD Im gonna miss watching that poll almost 24/7 . Haha. Taylor Swift fans and Justin Bieber fans werent really there. We went head to head with the The Wanted fans( Prisoners/TWFanmily) . But, when they knew they werent winning, its like they gave up. XD so the SONEs and KPOP Family won it like a piece of cake.:))) we watched the poll 24hours a day. We did it for our Beloved Girls’ Generation. Oh! And yea. We also gained new Sones with this poll. They saw how great Girls’ Generation were. Keke. SNSD is always DAEBAK!
HuwaaaW , , , Can you UPLOAD the CUTS from that OLYMPIC ?
dsahfeipyieyri oweracewr >> I wanna watch snsd how they sweep all the categories !! xD LOL
my congratulations go out to coach jon! you
should look into making this your profession.
whatever you did, you definitely gathered
together the right team and executed perfectly.
some of those opponents are no joke, but
you made them look like a bunch of amateurs.
with all his connections, jon has become instrumental
in the exposure of snsd internationally.
Congrats girls. They deserve it. But I wonder where did all the other groups’ fans go? lol.
I love you <3 They are the best of the best.
WOW, this is nice!
sweeped all categories?
where did the fans of the other artists go? SONES are jjang! :D
congrats to our angel for winning gold in pop Olympics. they really are the best.
it goes to show just how much love our angel are getting from fan. to beat out big bang and Taylor swifts is just awesome as or bieber never like his music.
wow congratssss girls !!! :D
\\O// Domination all the way. Congrats ladies on winning GOLD. Sones and kpop fans power in those results. I can’t wait for our ladies to drop their English album. Hopefully next year so they can have the opportunity to do a World Tour and meet their Sones all over the world. :) Soshi hwaiting! Sones hwaiting!
Their greatest achievement. /sarcasm
Woooooo!!!!! GO Soshi!!!
Sad I couldn’t vote as much as I wanted but super glad that they won “the all around” keke
Oh yeah, bring the golds out!
congratulations girls!!!! you deserve it!! :DD
A huge congrats to the girls!!! OMG, I’m so happy right now!!! I’ve been keeping up with this and to see that the girls won makes me so proud!!! Global Generation baby!!! :D SONES are the best ever! <3
This, ladies and gentlemen, ARE MY ANGELS.
And thanks Jon for always being so enthusiastic about calling for votes.
“Sometimes the people behind a website and its polls seeing who wins a contest and by how much is the most important thing” – @MoonSoshi9 on Twitter
SO TRUE. Jon you’re my favorite Sone…
CONGRATS! MY NINE BABIES!!!!!!!!!
IM SO PROUD TO BE A SONE. SNSD FOREVER FIQHTING!!!!!!!
that’s my girls… daebak!! love u girls!!
I believe our girls are the best!! They beat Taylor Swift for God sake!! And for JB, ugh! I don’t know.. Silly random singer, not even close with our girls’ charm. Congrats Soshi!! Love ya more :D
I LOVE YOU GIRLS:)
i always knew they were the best but here just proves it….we beat JUSTIN Bieber makes me happy the girls are moving up in the world indeed soon everyone will know them i cant wait for that….Congratulations girls i am extremely happy for you:) your the best
OMG CONGRATULATIONS SNSD ! ! ! <33
NUMBAH 1 IN 5 CATEGORIES ! <3333