Saturday, September 25, 2010

[NEWS] SNSD album sales to surpass 100,000 mark in Korea and Japan respectively


The sales of SNSD’s albums are expected to surpass 100,000 copies mark, both in Korea and Japan respectively.

In Korea, SNSD’s music sales is labelled as “daebak (great success)” when the sales exceeds 100,000 copies. SNSD’s album sales figure was expected to go beyond 100,000 copies as soon as they debuted in Japan .The girls are determined to strengthen their popularity and position in the music industry in both countries.

In Korea, SNSD released 2nd Album “Oh!” in January this year, followed by 2nd Album Repackaged “Run Devil Run” in March. On Hanteo Music Sales Chart, from January to August 2010,total sales of 170,775 copies was recorded. Last year, according to infromation on Hanteo, SNSD’s First Mini Album “Gee” and 2nd Mini Album “Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)” recorded sales of 82,162 and 86,443 copies respectively, giving a total sales of 168,605 copies for the year 2009.

With the current momentum, the girls are bound to exceed the 100,000 copies mark soon. SNSD’s Japan Debut Single “Genie” which was released on September 8th recorded sales of 45,000 copies in the first week and ranked 4th on Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.

The upward sales trend for “Genie” is expected as SNSD will be releasing their 2nd Single “Gee” on October 20th. Following the release of “Genie” and “Gee”, it will be a grand success for SNSD again if they could surpass the 100,000 copies mark during their first year in Japan.


Credits : sportsseoul.com/photo as tagged
Source : fanwonder.com

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