For the Korean music industry, June is turning out to be the month of some hot competition because of two popular idol groups, BIGBANG and EXO. On June 01, BIGBANG released two new songs from its MADE series, and two days later on June 03, EXO members released their repackaged second album EXODUS, featuring four new songs.   

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On Thursday, BIGBANG and EXO performed on "M!Countdown," and this was the first time that both the idol groups were seen performing in the same episode, making it the biggest showdown episode. However, neither group was declared the winner in the episode. SHINee won this week's countdown for the song "View" from their fourth studio album "Odd," released on May 18.   

The music video of EXO's repackaged album, "Love Me Right," received more than one million views within eight hours of its release, according to Korea Boo.  And not only that, all the four news songs of the album, "Love Me Right," "Tender Love," "First Love," and "Promise," have reportedly made it to the top ten on many charts. EXO member Tao, who is currently in the U.S., is not part of the repackaged album's release and promotion. 

Meanwhile, BIGBANG's songs "Bang Bang Bang" and "We Like 2 Party" from A album of MADE series are topping the Korean music charts, according to reports. The members of the group reportedly drank alcohol prior to filming of "We Like 2 Party" music video. Soompi has quoted a rep. as saying, "we wanted to portray a more natural vibe, and after much consideration we thought it would be better to do a video that captures the true feeling of the song rather than have them act it out."

"So [BIGBANG] drank in the studio and then filmed the video. Fans will therefore get to see a more relaxed BIGBANG than normal in the video," the rep. added. 

BIGBANG members have returned together as a group after a gap of nearly three years. They released the two songs from M of MADE series, "Loser" and "Bae Bae,"on May 01, and the complete series will be released on Sept. 01. And two news songs from D album of the series are set to release on July 01. 

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