Yoona and Seohyun to Appear in 'SM Fashionistas' Photoshoot

Girls' Generation Yoona and Seohyun, along with SHINee’s Jonghyun and Taemin, f(x)’s Krystal and Sulli, and EXO, will be participating in the SM Fashionistas’ photoshoot with fashion magazine “W” for the French fashion brand “CARVEN”. They will be attempting an open studio shoot where it will be filmed and broadcasted live on January 19th and 21st, and will be aired through SMTown and W Korea’s Youtube channels. “CARVEN” will be launched in February in Korea, and the photoshoot pictures will be released through Facebook.

With brands such as J.ESTINA, Vita500, and SPAO, Girls’ Generation is no stranger to endorsements. Seohyun’s ad for The Face Shop had also appeared in November. Yoona, who is currently filming for her role in “Love Rain”, has endorsed Innisfree and Eider, which she is currently modeling with actor Lee Minho.
Be sure to watch to watch the live photoshoot for “W” magazine on Youtube.

Winners from the 26th Golden Disk Awards (Day 2)

On January 12th, the second part of the 26th "Golden Disk Awards", which are being held overseas for the first time, kicked off at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan. After the winners of the physical album awards were announced, today's event announced the winners for the digital sales category.

Below are the list of winners for digital album categories:

• Digital Daesang
  Girls' Generation

• Asian Group of the Year
  CNBLUE

• Digital Bonsang
  miss A
  G.Na
  CNBLUE
  K.Will
  SISTAR
  SECRET
  Girls' Generation
  4Minute

• MSN International Award
  B2ST

• New Artist Award
  Huh Gak
  Boyfriend

• Best Rock Musician Award
  FT Island

• Hallyu Icon Award
  Supernova

• ViVi Dream Award
  CNBLUE

• Cosmopolitan ‘Fun & Fearless Musician’ Award
  FT Island

Girls' Generation thanks fans for Golden Disk Awards Digital Bonsang Win!

Girls’ Generation was the final recipient of the Digital Bonsang Award at the ’26th Golden Disk Awards’ held in Kyocera Dome, Osaka on January 12th.

Upon receiving the Bonsang, the girls said, “Thank you to all the fans, who love not only one song ‘The Boys’ but all the songs in the 3rd album. We will be the Girls’ Generation who work even harder
in the future.”

Girls’ Generation’s 3rd album ‘The Boys’ was released on October 19th, 2011. Despite being released at the end of 2011, ‘The Boys’ emerged as the best selling album in 2011 with sales of 385,348 copies
according to the GaOn Charts.

Girls’ Generation entertained the fans at Kyocera Dome on the second day of the award presentation ceremony with ‘The Boys’ and ‘Mr. Taxi’.

Red Carpet Photos from "26th Golden Disk Awards" (Day 2)

On January 12th, the second day of 26th annual "Golden Disk Awards", which is being held overseas for the first time, finally kicked off at the Osaka Kyocera Dome in Japan.

Dubbed as the Korean Grammy Awards, the Golden Disk Awards ceremony has been split into two days; first day will focus on physical album awards while digital album awards on the second day.

Meanwhile, check out the artists who attended the red carpet event earlier:

Girls' Generation

SECRET

CNBLUE

Huh Gak

Supernova

miss A

G.Na

SISTAR

Boyfriend

4Minute

FT Island

Girls' Generation's 'The Boys' Best Selling Album of 2011

According to Gaon charts, Girls’ Generation’s “The Boys” album is the best selling single album of 2011 with 385,348 sold. Fellow label-mates Super Junior with “Mr. Simple” and TVXQ with “Keep Your Head Down” joined Girls’ Generation at the top of the chart in second and third place with 343,348 and 266,727 sales respectively, showing how popular SM artists are.

Solidifying their comeback with this success, despite a late comeback in October of last year, Girls’ Generation continues to prove their dominance in the K-Pop community. Their popularity has undoubtedly grown in 2011 with “The Boys” album selling more than their previous albums “Oh” and “Hoot” combined, which came in second and third in total sales in 2010.

Leeteuk predicted Girls’ Generation member Yoona would be a star

Super Junior‘s Leeteuk announced that even as a trainee, he had a good feeling that Girls’ Generation member Yoona would be a star.

On the January 10th episode of SBS ‘Strong Heart‘, Lee Teuk reminisced of his days as a SM Entertainment trainee and remarked, “Out of all the 200 SM trainees, I told two people that they would be successful. One of them was Go Ara, and the other was Yoona.”

MC Lee Seung Gi then asked if this was after Super Junior had debuted, and Leeteuk laughed and remarked that it was before. Fellow Super Junior member Shindong added, “Hearing that, you would think that Leeteuk has a keen eye for spotting potential, but he also told me that I would never make it,” causing the entire set to explode in laughter.

Eunhyuk also remarked, “He told me that I would probably leave the group after a little while. But look at us now, the three of us are all together,” and the guests on set continued to roar in laughter.

‘GIRLS GENERATION’ ships over a million copies to Japan

Looks like the race to sell a million album copies in Japan has come to an end.

According to a Japanese media source Wow! Korea Japan, Girls’ Generation beat KARA to the finish line on January 11th, officially surpassing the million shipment mark of their first Japanese album ‘GIRLS GENERATION‘ that was released back on the 1st of June in 2011.

This is the first time a Korean artist has shipped over a million album copies in Japan after BoAaccomplished this by selling 1,290,000 copies of ‘Listen To My Heart‘ back in 2002 and 1,400,000 copies of ‘VALENTI‘ back in 2003. The talented singer also sold 1,200,000 copies of ‘BEST OF SOUL‘ which was released in 2005.

But BoA was a solo singer, and Girls’ Generation made their mark in history as the first Korean group to distribute a million album copies to Japan.

The album ‘GIRLS’ GENERATION’ climbed to #1 on the Oricon chart immediately upon release on June 1st, 2010, and the girls performed in front of over 140,000 fans during their Japan tour last summer.

Girls’ Generation was also invited to attend Japan’s biggest music festival ‘NHK Red & White Music Festival‘ at the end of 2011, earning 39.9% of the viewer ratings (According to Sponichi Annex), creating quite the buzz in Japan.