Tohoshinki's Comeback Single Surpasses Previous Works - 1st Place With 230k Sold

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[TRANS] 110201 Tohoshinki's First Comeback Single Surpasses Previous Works For 1st Week Sales -
1st Place With 230,000 Copies Sold

■Monopolizing both 1st and 2nd place for top selling foreign artists in singles weekly sales history

Tohoshinki, the Korean popular group, has restarted their activities as a duo with Yunho (24) and Changmin (22). Their first comeback single 「Why？（Keep Your Head Down）」 (released 26 January 2011) has sold more than 231,000 copies in its first week of release and made its entry into the first place of the 7 February singles weekly charts.

Before their hiatus last January, the 5-member Tohoshinki released their 29th single 「BREAK OUT！」 which sold more than 256,000 in its first week, and this single (Why?) ranks in second place after that for best first week sales in the entire history of foreign artists.

This single follows 10 months after their previous single 「時ヲ止メテ」 (195,000 sold in the first week), which was released in March after the release of their best album 『BEST SELECTION 2010』. In April last year, it was announced that group activities with all 5 members would be suspended and in January this year they have restarted their activities again as a duo. Despite this, their popularity can be felt as their first week sales exceeded that of the previous single by more than 36,000 copies.

Since Oricon first began its singles ranking chart in January 1968, the first foreign artist's single to break through the 200,000 copies mark was Tohoshinki's previous single 「BREAK OUT！」 and following that, their current new single. Once again, they successfully broke their own record as foreign artists to achieve first place in the 「Singles sales ranking」 and with the past 3 singles consecutively achieving first place, this is their 9th single to top the charts.

On the release date of this single on the 26th last month, Tohoshinki, together with BoA, SNSD and popular artists from their Korean management company SM Entertainment, performed at the live concert 『SMTOWN LIVE』 (Tokyo, National Yoyogi Stadium), marking their first comeback stage in Japan in 1 year and 1 month. Their song 「Why？～」 is also the OST song for Yukie Nakama's drama 『Beautiful Neighbour』 (Kansai TV, FujiTV) which is currently airing and they sang a total of 5 songs including this song during the live concert.

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Comments

[geekpants.livejournal.com]

Now double that amount if there were still together ;_;

[anthonymarie.livejournal.com]

:(

[anthonymarie.livejournal.com]

the stuff they could have done, the things they could have accomplished together =(

[captainmarvel.livejournal.com]

;(

[conxito.livejournal.com]

TVXQ is Jjang!
BigEast is Jjang<3

[captainmarvel.livejournal.com]

Break Out ;__;

Congrats!!! Omg that's an amazing amount in 1 week.
Even with CD sales down in Japan, these 2 babies showed them thirst they are still Kings.

[captainmarvel.livejournal.com]

WTF is thirst? Damn you auto correct!!

[uknow-jaeho.livejournal.com]

this <3

[kurogoma.livejournal.com]

BIGEAST is classy as hale ~ and TOHO well done. yunho and changmin well done. this is an awesome result. you deserve all the love and praise you got! \^0^/

[icedevil0289.livejournal.com]

the power of the gods. that's awesome. I can't imagine what it would be if it was all 5.

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

i bet they make it into the monthly chart!
so proud of them and bigeast T-T

[valentinekent.livejournal.com]

so incredible but seriously! they could have easily broken 500k as 5 :(

[locofruitcake.livejournal.com]

except they've never ever done that lol

[ellystage.livejournal.com]

I am really proud of them. ♥

[locofruitcake.livejournal.com]

geez, all these comments about how they "would have done better as 5". their numbers have always been in this range since they hit their peak in 09, so can we stop with all those comments.

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

omg yunho's running man picture

i still can't see which one are the horns LOLz

[ramunerain.livejournal.com]

so proud of my bbs. ;~;

[strawberry-efeu.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy they're doing well ;-; I guess at least Japan still loves them...

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

Congratz, bb!!
Big East are really supportive and they stand true to their words of supporting the boys. Though I think it's also because of the song. Why is well-liked by Japanese listeners I suppose. :)

[yuxo.livejournal.com]

*<(^.^*<) *^(^.^)^* (>*^.^)>*

[merong-xp.livejournal.com]

So proud! Those are some very nice numbers. ♥ ♥ ♥

Yunho and Changmin must have been pretty nervous about their reception in Japan after everything, so I'm thrilled that it's so positive and encouraging. I'm really impressed by TVXQ's Japanese fans and their support of the boys.

But it kind of pains me to see how one-week sales of a single in Japan approximately equals to the top yearly sales of a full album in Korea. The days we used to have million-sellers seem so long ago... :(

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

:) let's focus on the positive - this is an incredible accomplishment

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

congrats :)

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

wait so this single has sold more than the korean album? the fuck is that?!

[hibohabu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mother, Father…!

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

FINISH HIM!

god I love that game

[taecish.livejournal.com]

I H8 DBSK FOR STEALING TOMO-SAMA'S #1 PLZ SIGN UP FOR MY NEW ANTI-HOMIN CLUB THANKS

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

i thought u were a JYJ anti?

[locofruitcake.livejournal.com]

It's not bad per se, it's just irritating to see so many "if only....if onlyyy" in every Homin post. We have celebratory JYJ posts all the time, it would be nice to see it applies to both sides.

[naeve14.livejournal.com]

Like the comment I posted in the other community, I can rest the fear I got initially and rejoice their success now.

THANK YOU ALL SUPPORTERS!! YOU ARE GOOD JOB!! ^^b

[cake.livejournal.com]

That's amazing...congrats to them, well deserved for all their hard work! :DDD

[kakkoi-x.livejournal.com]

kcassies, take this as a learning experience and stop that boycott shit rn

[aescapes.livejournal.com]

THIS IS FANTASTIC ♥ and lmao wth at so many people insisting they would have miraculously doubled this sales record as 5 wth? when they've never done that before even at their peak? sheesh guys enjoy the positive moments o__o;

japanese fans have my mark, seriously, the $$ they are willing to dish out for these things ♥

[locofruitcake.livejournal.com]

I think part of it comes from International fans too :D *ahem* hehe ;;