PSY싸이

PSY (싸이; real name Park Jae-sang, 박재상) is a South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer. He released his debut studio album, Psy from the Psycho World!, in January 2001. He joined YG Entertainment in 2010 and left it on May 15, 2018, after eight years.¹ He then founded his own company, P Nation (피네이션), which works as a record label, artist agency and concert producer; Wikipedia gives its founding date as October 29, 2018.²

"Gangnam Style" (강남스타일), released by YG Entertainment on July 15, 2012, peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, at the time the highest position for a song by a South Korean artist. It also became the first K-pop song to top the UK Singles Chart. Its music video was the first on YouTube to pass 1 billion views, on December 21, 2012, and was the site's most-viewed video from November 24, 2012, until July 10, 2017.³ His 2013 follow-up, "Gentleman", also reached the Hot 100's top 10.¹

More than a decade later, "Gangnam Style" is still the most-viewed K-pop music video on YouTube, with 6.09 billion views as of October 10, 2026, more than double the video in second place. "Gentleman" ranks #8 with 1.76 billion views and "Oppa Is Just My Style" #25.⁴ The song won Song of the Year, one of the daesang (대상, grand prizes) that are the top tier of a Korean awards show, at both the 2012 Melon Music Awards⁵ and the 2012 MAMA Awards, then called the Mnet Asian Music Awards.⁶ Across his career he has won 10 MAMA Awards in all, plus an American Music Award, and in 2012 he received the Okgwan (4th class) Order of Cultural Merit from the South Korean government.¹