Double-Platinum Psy Wins Best Video Award at EMA

Euro Flash: A Kpop artist achieves yet another first for Asian pop artists at the EMAs.

Psy has gone double platinum in the US by selling over two million digital copies as of last Friday, according to a release Saturday by the Recording Industry Association of America.

On Sunday night Psy performed at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt — where he won the Best Video award — to cap off a European tour that began on November 5th.

Next Saturday he’s scheduled to perform on the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. On November 22 he will appear on the Thanksgiving edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Three months after becoming a YouTube sensation after his “Gangnam Style” video went viral, the Korean rapper has remained one of the world’s highest-profile pop artists. He has remained No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Social 50 for the past seven weeks and at or near the top of the iTunes singles chart since September.

As of Sunday night the original “Gangnam Style” video posted by Psy on July 15 had racked up over 707 million views, putting it within less than two weeks of passing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” — posted nearly three years ago — as the most viewed YouTube video of all time. “Baby” had over 798 million views as of Sunday night.

Psy, 34, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, had been on hiatus for two years before producing and posting the hit that has come to define him and Kpop for most of the world. He is said to have completed work on a new Korean-English single expected to be released in early 2013.