G-Dragon, KARA Rule Gaon Charts

Korean pop icon G-Dragon (fourth to left) pose during the photo shoot of his new album, "ONE OF A KIND," due out online on September 15, 2012. [YG Entertainment]

K-pop icon G-Dragon has soared in at No.1 on Gaon chart with his latest single, "That XX."The trends-setter jumped four slots to top the singles chart with the new acoustic sound between September 2 and 8, music distribution website Gaon showed Thursday."That XX"--the prelude of his soon-to-be-revealed first mini-album, "ONE OF A KIND"--is the Big Bang member's first solo effort in three years along with his hip-hop tune "ONE OF A KIND," after dropping the full-length solo album "Heartbreaker" in 2009. The musician's feat pushed down A PINK's Jeong Eun-ji and Seo In-guk's "All For You" down to No. 2. "All For You" is a track listed on the first sound track to tvN's TV series "Respond 1997." The singer-actors' duet debuted atop the chart in the last week of August, catapulted by the drama's popularity among people in their 20s and 30s.Thanks to the pair's heart-beating on-screen romance, Jeong and Seo's "Just the Way We Love," listed on the show's second soundtrack, followed next on the chart.Meanwhile, girl group T-ara entered at No. 4 last week with their robot-dance tune "SEXY LOVE."What is notable on the table is PSY's "Gangnam Style," which had reigned atop the list for five weeks since its debut at No. 1 during the fourth week of July.PSY's posh district-inspired dance single off the sixth album, "Six Rules, Part. 1" has ended its music-driven ride in the top five and came down to No. 8 during the third week of September.Other popular K-pop singles in the top ten include Huh Gak and Zia's duet "I Need You," KARA's "Pandora," Girls' Generation member Taeyeon's "Closer," Urban Zakapa's "Hate You" and songstress Baek Ji-young's "Love and Love."Over on the album's chart, KARA cemented themselves as the queen of K-pop in the third week of September with the fifth mini-album "PANDORA."The "Jumping singers" jumped 19 slots from the previous week, leaping over PSY's latest smash-hit album and Super Junior's "SPY," the repackaged edition of "Sexy Free & Single."

KARA members Gu Hara (top left), Han Seung-yeon (top right), Park Gyu-ri (center), Kang Ji-young (bottom left) and Nicole (bottom right) pose in small cubicles to promote the fifth mini-album "PANDORA," dropped on August 22, 2012. [DSP Media]

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