BIGBANG was given a one hour SBS special for their comeback. This was the first time that an artist was given a full hour to promote their comeback on a public broadcast network since the legendary Seo Taiji. (☆)
ALL 6 songs of the “Tonight” album took the top 6 spots on Melon, dosirak, Cyworld, MNet, Bugs, Soribada real time charts. (☆)
“Tonight” was the #1 downloaded song on Melon for the month of March. (☆)
BIGBANG is the first ever KPOP artist/group to reach the Top 10 Overall albums on US iTunes with their album “Tonight”. The album peaked at #7. (☆)
The “Tonight album also peaked at #28 on Top Pop albums in Germany, #6 on Top Pop albums in the US, #9 in Top Pop albums in Australia, #3 in Top albums in Finland, #2 in Top Albums in New Zealand, #10 in Top Albums in Canada and #5 on Top Pop albums in Canada. (☆)
BIGBANG was the first Asian artist/group to win an award at the MTV EMAs. They were also the first ever artist to receive the award for “Best Worldwide Act” and placed #1 on the twitter tracker for the majority of the award show. (☆)
BIGBANG took home the most music show awards in 2011. BIGBANG received 14 awards for “Tonight” and “Love Song”, Seungri received 5 awards and GD&TOP received 2 awards, totalling to 21 awards. SNSD had the second most music show awards with 12 awards for “The Boys”. (☆)
Most importantly, BIGBANG broke the 5 year curse. On top of that, they were able to survive two major scandals within one year and still stand up together as 5.
