TIME Lists Girls Generation and PSY On "Top 10 Everything of 2013"

Girls' Generation and PSY join the ranks of iconic international artists on TIME's "Top 10 Everything of 2013" lists.

Dec 5, 2013 06:50 AM GMT

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Girls' Generation's "I Got a Boy" and PSY's "Gentleman" are two of this year's most viewed videos and highest charting songs. The same videos even bagged nominations for "Video Of The Year Award" on the first ever YouTube Music Video Award.

The two Korean acts rank up alongside international acts once again as TIME magazine published Their "Top 10 Everything of 2013" List. The lists were released on TIME's official website.

Girls' Generation joined the ranks of Anna Kendrick, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, and Daft Punk as "I Got Boy" placed fifth on the "Top 10 Songs" list.

On why "I Got A Boy" deserved its spot in the year-end list, TIME wrote, "The nine-woman South Korean group Girls' Generation is a ridiculously effective hook machine, and a major phenomenon in Asia, whose biggest pop acts make One Direction and Katy Perry sound like audience-alienating avant-gardists. If you like songs that do everything at once, go straight to YouTube and call up the over-the-top video for this monomaniacally charming hybrid of bubblegum, dubstep and hard rock, whose Korean lyrics are sprinkled with incongruous English phrases ('Ayo, stop, let me put it down another way')."

Girls' Generation is the only Korean artist in the list.

As for PSY, he continued his reign on the TIME's Top 10 of Everything List. Last year, his "Gangnam Style" earned him the second spot on the "Top 10 Song of The Year" list. This year, he ranked up and snagged the coveted first place with the smash hit "Gentleman" on the "Viral Video of 2013" list.

PSY even defeated the hilarious "The Fox" video from Norwegian sibling duo Ylvis. Like Girls' Generation, PSY is also the sole Korean artist in his category.

As for "Gentleman", TIME wrote, "Think lightning can't strike twice? South Korean pop star PSY proved he was a rainmaker when he debuted 'Gentleman' in April, his much-awaited follow-up to 2012's most-viral video, 'Gangnam Style.' While nowhere close to his original hit in terms of catchiness and choreography- the signature hip-swinging move was no invisible horse dance -- Psy proved he wasn't a one-trick pony when 'Gentleman' broke all kinds of records right out of the gate, becoming the most viewed video online in a single day."

Congratulations Girls' Generation and PSY! 

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