Big Bang break charts record for overseas artists in Japan

[fabledlamb.livejournal.com]

Big Bang's first Japanese major album "BIGBANG" debuted at #3 in the weekly Oricon album charts dated August 31, 2009. This makes Big Bang the first overseas artists ever to enter the Japanese Top 5 with their first three consecutive releases, i.e. their debut album, their first single ("MY HEAVEN") and their second single ("GARA GARA GO!!").


Meanwhile, their best of album "ASIA BEST 2006-2009" which was released on the same day as their first major album debuted at #20 in the weekly album charts. At the same time, it ranks 4th in the weekly overseas album charts.

Their live DVD "2009 Big Bang Live Concert 'Big Show'" is at #1 in the Oricon music DVD charts and at #5 in the rental DVD charts.

In a thank you message to the fans posted on Aug 27 at the official Japanese blog their Japanese staff described Big Bang as a band who is - just two months after their major debut - continuing to make the transition from artists representing Korea to a band representing Japan and even all of Asia. They thanked the fans for all of their support which made it possible to achieve such a great success in Japan. Together with Big Bang themselves they want to work just as hard so the band can continue to be just as successful with their future Japanese activities and releases.



Source: Big Bang's official Japanese blog
Article/translation: fabledlamb@coinlockerbaby.org
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Comments

[biznass.livejournal.com]

[skrillex.livejournal.com]

[no-genre.livejournal.com]

yay! :DDDDDD

[ai-baka.livejournal.com]

OMG TOP!

[bai-se-yue.livejournal.com]

ooo Grads to the boys!

[vo-kim-bulary.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ the icon!

[nashirah.livejournal.com]

second that. STAY. ♥

[vo-kim-bulary.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!!!!

Congratulations, boys! And thank you for translating. :)

[fabledlamb.livejournal.com]

No problem :)

[omgcats.livejournal.com]

Hooray! ♥

[unsospiro.livejournal.com]

[aunts.livejournal.com]

*IS DYING RIGHT NOW*
Hoshit I LOVE him. <3

[rockthecliche.livejournal.com]

fucking BAMF. i'm so proud of them!

:D

[hellodee16.livejournal.com]

:D

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Well congrats to them! I do wonder their sales amount though, like is it just same loyal fans buying their records or are they actually growing continuously their fan base there.

[kireny.livejournal.com]

those are my worries to.
they seem to sell around the same every time 20-30K for the singles, they release them on good weeks without too much competition.

But I hope that their fanbase starts to grow soon, I want them to continue to do well

[sirenasfun.livejournal.com]

8DDDDDDDDD HUZZAH!
(http://tinypic.com)

[trannas.livejournal.com]

I can't stop looking at this gif omg!!!

[ai-baka.livejournal.com]

[fashionbang.livejournal.com]

i think its hilarious how they pretend 'for the world' never happened.

[hellodee16.livejournal.com]

i guess they don't count it, because it wasn't a "Japanses major album"? idk.

[nene718.livejournal.com]

So Number 1 didn't count as their first major album?

Anyways, congrats to them.

[fabledlamb.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it didn't. They marketed it as some sort of best of album, a bit like the best of CD that was released on the same day as their "real" major debut album. In contrast to Number 1, their latest album only features songs actually sung in Japanese (or should I phrase it as "songs with a couple of Japanese phrases in it"? ^^;).

[amorspesfides.livejournal.com]

What can I say, BB rocks tonight, oh eh oh!

[natacha92.livejournal.com]

TAKE THAT PARTY DOWN, OH

[very86.livejournal.com]

*__* WOOOO!

(http://s559.photobucket.com/albums/ss34/Very86_laSiS/?action=view&current=anigif345.gif)

[natacha92.livejournal.com]

[jaejoongxyuno07.livejournal.com]

I love them so much! ♥!
They deserve their success.

YESHAHH

[smashboardcrunk.livejournal.com]

YESH BEDI GEWWD BIG BANG BEDI GEWWD
NEXT COME SINGAPORE N SAVE DAA FLAILINGG DROWNINGG LOCAL MUSYCK INDUSTRYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[juhli.livejournal.com]

IT'S PARTY TIME!!!

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

that's pretty nice i guess! i have no idea i am trying to have perspective here, people are so onesided "OMG KPOP FOREVA NIHON DEVILS" "KPOP IS A POOR MAN'S JPOP EXCEPT A POOR JAPANESE MAN WOULD BE A KOREAN HAHAHA" it's hard to tell what's what.

honestly i do really want BB to have some success there, i've never been into DBSK besides and all the disparaging comments that are in every single "kpop in japan" post bothers me a bit. and then maybe soon a japanese band (a very very small indie one lol??) will want to try out the smaller korean charts and would be embraced and korea and japan could both be less xenophobic superior-complex assholes THE END YAYYYY

/fantasy

[amorspesfides.livejournal.com]

that would probably take longer than the blacks getting equal treatment in America.

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

ffs definitely not!! m-flo >>>>> like everything ever. 엠플로 츼궈~~

[minamelody.livejournal.com]

aww yay! i hope they can keep it up. GOOD LUCK BBS!

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

Get it BB.