Discussing his solo album, “Another Me“, on the latest
episode of MBC‘s ‘Radio Star‘, he revealed
that he was disappointed by the lack of success of his first solo effort. The
conversation started with MC Kim Kuk Jin pointing out, “I
heard that your ambitious solo album was a complete failure. Your fans even made
posts reading, ‘Don’t even type in or search about Sunggyu’s solo album failing’
since the search ranking will go up.”
Sunggyu sighed as he responded, “I saw that. If you type in ‘Sunggyu’ in
the search bar, the related search term is ‘Sunggyu’s solo failure’.” The
other MCs joked around to make him smile, and he continued, “It came out
last year, and the songs were really good. The album is a classic. It’s a really
well-made album.” Kyuhyun mentioned that INFINITE-H‘s
album was doing well, and Sunggyu explained that it was because they had the
name ‘INFINITE’ behind them, while he just promoted simply as ‘Kim Sunggyu’, and
explained that he was originally going to be ‘INFINITE’s Sungyu’, but changed at
the last minute.
Even more so than the failure itself, he related, was the reactions of his
fellow INFINITE members. He said, “The worst thing was, L‘s
sitcom was cancelled. I heard he was drinking with our CEO, so I went to them.
In the beginning, he said he was so thankful that I was there, but when he got
drunk, he said, ‘But it’s okay because you failed, too’. I went to cheer him on,
but I was the one that got damaged. During that time, it was sort of hard for me
to say anything, because he was having a hard time, too. Since I’m a hyung, I
couldn’t go argue with him about it. I was going to let it go if he stopped
there, but he just kept going. He even knew the exact ranking. Even I didn’t
know that! I got angry and blurted, ‘Didn’t the drama get ruined because of
you?’“.
Sunggyu went on to reveal that despite being hurt at the time over L’s
remarks, they mutually put an end to the problem by getting over their hangover
together the next morning – which goes to prove that in some cases, drinking
does solve problems, after all! [Disclaimer: allkpop does
not endorse alcoholism in any way.]
source:allkpop
ok...after reading this article..what do u think??did u think SUNGGYU 1st solo album a FAILURE??? hemm..
personally I thought the album was brilliant, it's a shame it didn't get more recognition. As Sunggyu said, it was probably because he promoted it under his own name rather than Infinite's that it didn't get as much attention. ok..may be people will say if it good..u dont need to use INFINITE's name..
we must know that people don't tend to look up an artists unless they are well known.Most people didn't even know who Kim Sunggyu was when the album dropped. There usually needs to be a reason for someone to check an artist out and in this case, having Infinite's name attached to his name would have helped promote him..right?
in my opinion, Woollim didn't market him as well as they marketed Infinite H. Infinite H worked with known figures and that helped a lot in terms of interest, they were also on music programs, end of the year shows, Immortal Song, and had a showcase before the album was released. Sunggyu didn't have any of that, he just released his album out of nowhere and promoted it for three weeks and then he was gone.
beside that, Sunggyu didn't release an idol album, he released a modern rock album, and that's not a very popular genre of music in Korea..and I think that also factors into it his low sales.
for me..Sunggyu 1st solo album not totally failure..I like his album..its ok sunggyu-sii..even people say its a failure..its not to us (INSPIRIT)..! keep up good works sunggyu-sii..we will always support u..and I also glad that u being a GOOD hyung to others!
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