Girls’ Generation “Hoot” crowned new queen on Gaon chart

Album jacket of Girls' Generation's 3rd mini-album "Hoo" [SM Entertainment]

Girls’ Generation’s newest song “Hoot” ranked first on last week's Gaon singles chart.

“Hoot,” the title track to Girls’ Generation’s third mini-album of the same name, has been sweeping online music charts since its release last week. The song sings of a girl warning her boyfriend to stop breaking her heart.

Coming in second was ballad song “You Wouldn’t Answer My Call” by boy band 2AM. The song is from the group’s first full-length album “Saint o’clock” also released last week.

“Instinctively” by SuperstarK 2 contestant Kang Sung-yoon, which topped the previous week's chart, stepped down two slots to settle at No. 3 while hip hop artist PSY’s song “RIGHT NOW” went up 10 steps to claim fourth place.

Reaching fifth was “Like Crazy,” another ballad song by 2AM that pleads his lover to return. This is one of the two title tracks from their album “Saint o’clock” that they are promoting simultaneously.

Little change was detected in the remainder of Gaon's list -- many of the songs were from two weeks ago with slight differences in rankings. Songs like “Then Then Then,” “Crying, Calling…,” “Sun Flower,” and “I Love You Even If I Die” continued to remain within the top 20 songs.

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