Seotaeji selling most albums in 2009

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Top rock artist Seotaeji has sold the most albums so far this year, according to his agency on Friday.

The singer, songwriter and musician topped music website Hanteo Chart's listing as having sold the most albums between January 1 and September 16, Seotaeji Company said in a press release.

The singer's sales, composed of two singles and a full album this year, surpassed that of top idol groups such as Girls' Generation and Big Bang which followed in second and third place, respectively.

He plans to rerelease his fifth album "Seotaeji 5" on September 29. The album had previously sold 1.3 million copies.

Seotaeji is one of South Korea's most prominent and influential cultural icons who has released a total of 42 albums throughout his 18-year career.

He took the country by storm with his earlier three-member group Seotaeji and Boys during the early-90s and has successfully continued a solo career after the group's retirement in 1996.

Another member of the former group, Yang Hyun-suk, is currently head of YG Entertainment which manages some of Korea's most popular singers including Big Bang and 2NE1.

ETA: Actual sales numbers according to Hanteo Chart

According to Hanteo Chart, Friday, Seo sold 198,215 copies between Jan. 1 and Sept. 17

Girls' Generation took second place by selling 190,475.

Big Bang, and Super Junior, placed third and fourth with 161,460 and 131,480 album sales, respectively.

G-Dragon, Big Bang's leader, ranked fifth with 113,100 copies sold.

Sources: asiae.co.kr, The Korea Times

Comments

[beauty0fparting.livejournal.com]

this guy just keeps getting younger and younger... idgi.

[renaldomoon.livejournal.com]

go taeji! ♥

[baeraki.livejournal.com]

not surprised AT ALL.

he could make an album with complete silence on it, and still break 200k.
he has powers XD

congrats!

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

So much for people saying he doesn't matter anymore :P

[roseltv.livejournal.com]

Total sales of top 3 = DBSK's Mirotic album sales XD

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Pretty much though I'm not sure how representative that account is Big Bang's Korean sales per se as they haven't released any Korean albums during this year.

[xu3173.livejournal.com]

EMT XD

[dreamsbytheedge.livejournal.com]

Are you freakin' sure that SJ is fourth? SORRY, SORRY was a big hit, hello.
I'm sure that it sold more than 150,000 at least, Korea.

=_=

[stardustii.livejournal.com]

mte o_0

[mihsayam.livejournal.com]

I love Seo Taeji choreography. I had a phase of that a couple of years ago.

[dream-raine.livejournal.com]

Those figures are weird...

They count the two mini albums of Big Bang and SNSD and use both the figures to count per for each respective artiste...

But for Suju, they only count version A of the full album...and use the figure of version A for the ranking...

And Mirotic is still number for this year...even tho the release date was last year.

[kittycurious.livejournal.com]

Congrats to SeoTeaji! :D
I found him randomly on youtube a few months back. His song T'ik T'ak owns my ears with its awesomeness!

[des-akazim.livejournal.com]

work it!

[heyahala.livejournal.com]

He's the legend

[the-machine.livejournal.com]

Hanteo's charts aren't as precise as MIAK's, though MIAK updates waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy slower. though it's now called KMCIA i think.

[jjoongie.livejournal.com]

Sweet. And people say he's irrelevant. (:

[yumekanau.livejournal.com]

I heard his song Morning Snow recently, I think it's awesome

I'm wondering, does he have any other songs similar to this?

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

You might want to try these:

[bambayahh.livejournal.com]

Congrats to Seo Taeji :]

[ranwae.livejournal.com]

well he's only inspired some of the idol singers today to get into music. he's all sorts of awesome :Db

but ugh, i think i'll wait for the MIAK charts for a more comprehensive album sales count (or does this even exist in Korea?). cos really suju should have at least broken 150k by now.

Korean album sales are so idek :c i dont suppose anyone knows where i can get an explantion for this sort of thing in english, just so we can all know exactly which album sales are being considered. is nerd sorry.

[vanillacat.livejournal.com]

I really, REALLY liked his older works (like 7th Issue) but Atomos was kind of a letdown. :/ He could easily sell that many on the basis of his name alone, though.

SJ has sold way more than that... just saying. I'm fairly certain they passed 150,000...