Gaon Chart releases chart rankings for the First Half of 2013 (Physical Albums)

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The Gaon Chart is the national chart of South Korea and is intended to be the equivalent of Oricon in Japan and Billboard in the United States.

Check out the Physical Album chart ranking for the first half of 2013 (January - June) below!

Rank	Album	Artist	Distributor	Album Sales
1	I Got A Boy	Girls' Generation	Kt Music	285,090
2	Hello	Cho Yong Pil	Universal Music	229,875
3	XOXO (Kiss Ver)	EXO	Kt Music	206,812
4	Chapter 1 - Dream Girl	SHINee	Kt Music	183,395
5	XOXO (Hug Ver.)(Chinese)	EXO	Kt Music	172,144
6	New Challenge	INFINITE	Loen Entertainment	160,374
7	I	Jaejoong	A&G Modes	144,927
8	Chapter 2 - Why So Serious?	SHINee	Kt Music	129,376
9	Re:BLUE	CNBLUE	CJ E&M	120,629
10	Grown	2PM	Kt Music	114,028
11	What's Happening?	B1A4	Pony Canyon Korea	92,564
12	Fly High	INFINITE H	Loen Entertainment	92,394
13	One Shot	B.A.P	Loen Entertainment	82,222
14	No.1	Teen Top	Loen Entertainment	79,057
15	THE CLASSIC	Shinhwa	CJ E&M	74,101
16	Y	Jaejoong	A&G Modes	62,000
17	Break Down	Super Junior-M	Kt Music	51,618
18	hyde	VIXX	CJ E&M	41,110
19	Sexy Beat	MBLAQ	CJ E&M	36,379
20	One Of A Kind	G-Dragon	Kt Music	30,460
21	Trap	Henry	Kt Music	30,213
22	On and On	VIXX	CJ E&M	28,268
23	Countryside Life	T-ara N4	Loen Entertainment	26,669
24	MAMA	EXO-K	Kt Music	26,364
25	I yah (Repackage)	Boyfriend	Loen Entertainment	24,063
26	Les Miserables OST	Various Artists	Universal Music	22,492
27	MAMA	EXO-M	Kt Music	21,750
28	One Spring Day	2AM	Kt Music	20,935
29	2011 Girls' Generation Tour	Girls' Generation	Kt Music	20,113
30	Bigbang Alive Tour: 2012	Big Bang	Kt Music	19,126
31	COLLAGE	U-Kiss	Windmill Media	18,979
32	Psy Part 6	Psy	Kt Music	18,412
33	First Love	Lee Hi	Kt Music	17,746
34	Grown (Grand Edition)	2PM	Kt Music	17,351
35	Kim Kwang Seok	Kim Kwang Seok	CJ E&M	17,036
36	Monochrome	Lee Hyori	CJ E&M	16,847
37	2013 Bigbang Alive Galaxy Tour	Big Bang	Kt Music	15,628
38	Super Junior World Tour Super Show 4	Super Junior	Kt Music	15,440
39	Mystical Ballad	Davichi	Loen Entertainment	15,430
40	Give It To Me	SISTAR	Loen Entertainment	14,631
41	No.1 Repackage Special Edition	Teen Top	Loen Entertainment	14,603
42	The 2nd Single	My Name	Loen Entertainment	14,287
43	Name Is 4minute	4minute	Universal Music	14,147
44	Busker Busker 1st Album	Busker Busker	CJ E&M	13,863
45	In The Wind	B1A4	Pony Canyon Korea	13,371
46	Gone Not Around Any Longer	SISTAR19	Loen Entertainment	13,156
47	Hello	NU'EST	Loen Entertainment	12,345
48	My Love	Lee Seung Chul	CJ E&M	12,345
49	Expectation	Girl's Day	Loen Entertainment	12,118
50	Love Love Love	Roy Kim	CJ E&M	11,720

src: akp

Mods, this is the physical chart. The digital chart was posted some days ago.

Comments

[footballfina.livejournal.com]

EXO slayed. full stop.

If that imminent repackage is true, they could collectively be the biggest physical sellers of 2013, for a 1 year old group, holy shit.

[burningleaf.livejournal.com]

I don't even know whether to clap or to shudder.

[jonghyunf.livejournal.com]

dam t-ara and snsd the only girls in the top 30

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Yay #6! One Shot & hyde are also doing great!

[allthingsgood.livejournal.com]

Kinda funny that Teen Top's sales come right before Shinhwa's, haha.

Shinhwa's album did pretty well!

[goldynchickie.livejournal.com]

Really proud of my babies VIXX and B1A4.

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[i-jennerayy.livejournal.com]

impiniteu yay #6!:)v

[myiuchan.livejournal.com]

sj-m & henli♥♥♥♥♥

[2ne3rd.livejournal.com]

Yikes what happened to Nu'est...
anyways go Teenfinite!!! also Grats to Infinite-H for being best selling sub-unit so far, that album was my everything <3

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

Omg Infinite H. The sub-unit to kill all other sub-units. That EP! I wish they promoted longer!

[sayitisso.livejournal.com]

exo is slaying and what with their performance just now @ kazan, i'm shuddering in anticipation. sm need to play their cards right bc damn boy, their future could be the brightest out of all their artists, just sayin'.

so happy for b1a4, vixx and infinite! i'm sad at the lack of female groups, but ig they don't do as well with physical sales.

[footballfina.livejournal.com]

Was literally just thinking about this, what is EXO's ceiling??? I mean it's pretty clear that SM has their physical sale formula down, but what happens if they give the boys a "Sorry, Sorry" or "Lucifer" or hell even "Gee" - I can't think of an SM (or any company) boy group that rose this steep and this quick, and this is basically without a semblance of a hit song??? Like what sorcery is this??? Idk man, but I think they have the potential to do HUGE things

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Damn really all four EXO albums on the charts...I hope this means they are counting Kiss and Hug together for the end of year awards

Look at Infinite and Teen Top...I remember when they first debuted

f(x) is about to be on both charts too

[lenkaxchan.livejournal.com]

wow Cho Yong Pil :D

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

2PM did so fucking well, i am so proud.

[toygrass.livejournal.com]

IKR!! Especially since they didn't promote much (IMO at least)

[laeryn.livejournal.com]

oh my god, Infinite H *___* I didn't know they'd done so well :) also super happy for Infinite, Jaejoong and CNBLUE, of course, but alkdjfñaljsdf <3

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

whoa even the chinese version of exo's album sold 100K+

their fandom is cray

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

It's a good album.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! Exo killed it!
and I'm so happy for Infinite H!

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

Infinite and Infinite H \O/

WOW @ VIXX selling more than MBLAQ.

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

That totally surprised me! 1 year rookies vs. M- freaking BLAQ's 5 years and Joonies abs. How? I'm happy for VIXX (my bb's *squee*) but perplexed too.

[kaila-09.livejournal.com]

woah! fangirls of EXO are scary! What I am amazed about are the two MAMA albums that are still on the list.

[iglossmyeyes.livejournal.com]

wow exo.

yg needs to take an example. go through with the tv show, announce winner and month later release bullshit explanation that due to overwhelming response (fangirls will lose their minds lbr) they decided to mesh groups together.

[achan123.livejournal.com]

dont think they can mesh the groups together. the fangirls of each groups would automatically hate the other group as they would see them as a rival to their oppars

[gdgdbb.livejournal.com]

Exotics scare me.

I dislike the inconsistency with different charts regarding SHINee's albums. Like on Inkigayo last week they won for first half album sales because they counted both albums as one.

Go B1A4, Infinite (& Infinite-H), and Teen Top!

[digitalqueen.livejournal.com]

It's one album.

[porcupinegloves.livejournal.com]

EXO physical sales are insaaane! wow at both versions of the MAMA mini album still being on the list

yay for b.a.p and b1a4 being so well on the list!

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

Isn't it interesting to see who has sales vs. who only has hype? A lot of groups that seemed really really popular to me didn't sell well. The class of 2012 is outselling established groups who should have a dedicated fan base.

[allegsiseu.livejournal.com]

basically. i've said it before and i'll say it again: male rookies are killing it in k-pop

[candycrush808.livejournal.com]

I'm almost U-Kiss-level sad for them. It's like they're on a Kpop treadmill to nowhere. Omg...Kpop hamster wheel.

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Damn SM is making so much money. All their groups slayed. It's interesting that IGAB didn't have a repackage but exo and shinee have so many releases planned. I hope f(x) gets just as much attention as shinee and exo are getting.

I can't tell if SM is getting lucky or if someone there is brilliant.

[ohlookshiny.livejournal.com]

the only reason snsd didn't have a repackage was that they had to head to japan for their tour straight away. bad timing on sm's part. they didn't even promote for that long :/ they do have releases planned for the rest of the year - another album, and a tts comeback. i'm not sure how sm can squeeze in all those albums, but we'll see.

sm are batshit insane but also kind of smart...

[floydsastar.livejournal.com]

aw MBLAQ. though i wouldn't think being #19 is THAT bad considering it's only been out for a month.

i also love the random Les Mis soundtrack being on the chart

[donttakethebait.livejournal.com]

ide understand exo's success but good for them i guess lmao.

my vixx bbs did so well with hyde im so proud of them :') U WILL SLAY EVERYONE ONE DAY BBS.

[chewmi.livejournal.com]

mte on exo