{"id":262601,"date":"2020-07-23T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262601"},"modified":"2020-07-23T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:36:09","slug":"benben-takes-top-trending-spots-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/23\/benben-takes-top-trending-spots-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben&#038;Ben takes top trending spots in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power of artists to fans is really incredible as it can take a shoutout for a crowd to suddenly swarm into one thing. This appears to be the case as Ben&amp;Ben trended in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Melon Realtime Search Chart&#8217;s top trend spots were dominated by the key terms &#8220;Ben&amp;Ben,&#8221; &#8220;Leaves,&#8221; &#8220;ben and ben,&#8221; and &#8220;Ben&amp;ben leaves&#8221; as seen from a fan who shared the news to the band through a tweet saying that they were currently trending in South Korea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">uy nice <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pH4YDvJUn9\">https:\/\/t.co\/pH4YDvJUn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben&amp;Ben (@BenAndBenMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenAndBenMusic\/status\/1285904336413847552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A simple and chill &#8220;uy nice&#8221; was their initial response to this.<\/p>\n<p>Another tweet shared by the band confirmed this, showing that they occupied the #1, #2, #3, #6, and #7 spots in the music chart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Filipino Band &#x1f1f5;&#x1f1ed; Ben&amp;Ben is currently trending #1 and also occupied the #2, #3, #6, and #7 position on Melon Realtime Search Chart &#8211; 19:40 KST and i don&#8217;t know why &#x1f914;&#x1f914;&#x1f914; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ESqKs31uOJ\">pic.twitter.com\/ESqKs31uOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YG Charts (@charts_yg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charts_yg\/status\/1285890920139743232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This time, the band finally said &#8220;can&#8217;t believe it. we&#8217;re trending # 1 in south Korea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the abovementioned tweet by twitter handle @charts_yg said that it does not know the reason why this was happening, it seemed that some Korean artists played the band&#8217;s 2017 single &#8220;Leaves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ben&amp;Ben tweeted their gratitude to NCT 127&#8217;s Mark Lee as the Korean artist played the song.&#8221; The band quote retweeted netizen @howoozidan who shared a snippet of Mark&#8217;s VLive broadcast where he was awed while listening to Ben&amp;Ben&#8217;s tunes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">hey thanks for playing our song &#8220;leaves&#8221;, Mark of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCTsmtown_127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCTsmtown_127<\/a> ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OYTELJvxup\">https:\/\/t.co\/OYTELJvxup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben&amp;Ben (@BenAndBenMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenAndBenMusic\/status\/1285886137739829249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In another tweet, they also thanked Young K of K-rock band Day 6, by quote retweeting a video still of the artist saying &#8220;Ben&amp;Ben. Leaves. It was amazing, wow. I was surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">thank u for listening to our music, young k of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/day6official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@day6official<\/a> !! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3PV7Dbx6k\">https:\/\/t.co\/W3PV7Dbx6k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben&amp;Ben (@BenAndBenMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenAndBenMusic\/status\/1285886532344152064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on June 11, another Korean artist was swooned by the same song.<\/p>\n<p>A fan&#8217;s tweet shared by Ben&amp;Ben quoted Renjun NCT DREAM said, &#8220;the song we just heard was god sent from ben&amp;ben! it\u2019s a really nice song~&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">woah! thanks for playing our song renjun &#x1f60a; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCTsmtown_DREAM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCTsmtown_DREAM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UEKB5OHsSn\">https:\/\/t.co\/UEKB5OHsSn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben&amp;Ben (@BenAndBenMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenAndBenMusic\/status\/1281948844511485953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ben&amp;Ben is known for several hits like &#8220;Kathang Isip,&#8221; &#8220;Maybe The Night,&#8221; and &#8220;Masyado Pang Maaga.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their recent release is &#8220;Nakikinig Ka Ba Sa Akin&#8221; which they dubbed as &#8220;<em>isang alay sa ating mga kapamilya para sa bigat ng mga pangyayari ngayon <\/em>(an offering for our families amidst these trying times).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of artists to fans is really incredible as it can take a shoutout for a crowd to suddenly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":262610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262617,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262601\/revisions\/262617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}