[identity profile] gator-yoong.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] omonatheydid


Korean girl group KARA’s latest album “Girl’s Talk” (Released November 24, 2010), has jumped to rank #2 on Oricon’s Weekly Album Chart this week, after being at #4 last week. This is the 11th week the album has been on sale and it is currently the same rank as it was during it’s week of release, KARA’s best yet. KARA’s album has spent 5 consecutive weeks in the TOP5 and the last foreign artist to do this was 3 member boy group O-ZONE 5 years and 5 months ago with their album “DISCO-ZONE ~Koi no MAIAHI~” (Released March 2005).

KARA has been going through a break up crisis and began working again as 5 members on the 4th, even through all of their problems their sales have continued to stay strong. The foreign artist with the record of sales is “Michael Jackson THIS IS IT” (released October 2009), which sold 453,000 copies, it has been 1 year and 2 months. For a foreign group, O-ZONE still has the most copies sold as of now, with 859,000, it has been 5 years and 5 months.

As of this week, “Girl’s Talk” has sold a total of 313,000 copies (16,000 copies this week alone). The last foreign female group to pass 300,000 copies sold was Destiny’s Child in 2005 with “Number 1’s”, it has been 5 years and 3 months.

“Girl’s Talk” is KARA’s first original album. It has 10 songs, including their Japanese debut single “Mister” and their 2nd single “Jumping”. KARA arrived in Japan on the 3rd to film for their drama “URAKARA”. They resumed work on the 4th.


Translated by: [livejournal.com profile] gator_yoong
Source: Oricon

Did you miss me? XD There were a lot of "fives" in this post...

Date: 2011-02-07 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com
OF COURSE I MISSED YOU AND YOUR AMAZING TRANSLATIONS/POSTS <3

I hope Kara can pass the 350K or even 400K mark

Date: 2011-02-07 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourgeisha.livejournal.com
double platinum here we comeeeeeeeeee

Date: 2011-02-07 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
No publicity is bad publicity. And can someone tell me Tohoshinki's highest album sales number, please?
Edited Date: 2011-02-07 08:09 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-02-07 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queefing.livejournal.com
281,479,068. the holy Tohoshinki's godly achievements will never touched by the unworthy peasant hands of Kara.

Date: 2011-02-07 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queefing.livejournal.com
oh sorry it was 281,479,069! forgive me they sold one more album while i was typing.

Date: 2011-02-07 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mycolorisacolor.livejournal.com
oic! for a moment there I almost thought you had the wrong numbers

Date: 2011-02-07 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queefing.livejournal.com
sorry ;~; i would never do that to precious oppas.

Date: 2011-02-07 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
LOL Troll harder.

Date: 2011-02-07 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourgeisha.livejournal.com
their Best Selection is their best seller. It was certified double platinum in 2010 so it's somewhere between 570 to a million in sales rn

Date: 2011-02-07 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
k, I wonder why they aren't comparing Kara's sales for that then instead of MJ's album.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourgeisha.livejournal.com
...why should they? Why not MJ?

Date: 2011-02-07 09:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
Well this line isn't really true as Toho's album has sold more: The foreign artist with the record of sales is “Michael Jackson THIS IS IT” (released October 2009), which sold 453,000 copies, it has been 1 year and 2 months.
Edited Date: 2011-02-07 09:11 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-02-07 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourgeisha.livejournal.com
*inserts toho-is-treated-as-jpop-band-not-kgroup-in-japan-same-as-boa-they-started-from-scratch-built-their-way-up-etcetcetc*

not saying right or wrong or anything, but it's now the jpn public views them and how they will continue to be viewed /shrugs

Date: 2011-02-07 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
Actually ignore all that I said as the article seems to make separate categories for foreign solo artists and groups, and thsk goes into group category in which O-ZONE is still the king with 859,000 sales number.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liime-arix.livejournal.com
The yearly said 570 copies.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourgeisha.livejournal.com
ugh I wish they had a 750k certification or smth - it's like limbo land after 500 but before 1 million

Date: 2011-02-07 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liime-arix.livejournal.com
Yeah, I think it'll take them a while though before they reach that milestone.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] srybutno.livejournal.com
best selection sold 570k, but it's a compilation album

their best selling original album is 'the secret code', which sold like 307k iirc

Date: 2011-02-07 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] japanfans.livejournal.com
well at that time in * the secret code album * thier single was only sell 110k at the most
and in 2010 thier single sold over 290k so the become really popular in the end of 2009

Date: 2011-02-08 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerplunk.livejournal.com
about 570,000 copies from the best selection album

Date: 2011-02-07 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askbask.livejournal.com
O-Zone, huh

Date: 2011-02-07 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabu-parade.livejournal.com
O-ZONE lol
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Date: 2011-02-07 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zustyle.livejournal.com
Nu mă nu mă iei,nu mă nu mă nu mă iei , chipul tău şi dragostea din tei, mi-amintesc de ochii tăăi.
/hides

Date: 2011-02-07 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabu-parade.livejournal.com
Ah, that song is so legendary. :D I didn't know they were so popular in Japan.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liime-arix.livejournal.com
I love that song so much. I used to para para to it.

Date: 2011-02-07 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queefing.livejournal.com
oh crap here comes people with their very cleverly put together theories that it was all pr stunt!


nugu O-ZONE?


op thanks for translating for us again ♥

Date: 2011-02-07 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liime-arix.livejournal.com
O-zone is the group with the 'Numa Numa' song.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queefing.livejournal.com
i never knew the numa numa song was by a group called O-Zone lol ~the more you know~

Date: 2011-02-07 08:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-02-07 08:59 pm (UTC)

Re: I love the Korean and Japanese ver.

Date: 2011-02-07 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liime-arix.livejournal.com
Last I heard of him was when he did an interview with Japanorama XD I became a fan of him because of para para.

Date: 2011-02-07 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashiva.livejournal.com
OT: But just went to yesasia and noticed that they are releasing Japanese versions of all Kara's past albums on the same day. DSP seems to be in hurry... o_O

Date: 2011-02-07 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyuri.livejournal.com
Noope, that's pretty much normal. Like, they released a best of thingy, that contained all of their stuff.

Date: 2011-02-07 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leftysrockk.livejournal.com
Learned something new about the numa numa song today.

And \o/ yay for bbs getting a lot of things with the number 5 Image

Date: 2011-02-07 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toomanysides.livejournal.com
NUMBER 5. I swear it's the universe telling them they need to stay BEST FUCKIN FIVE!

Image

Date: 2011-02-07 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toomanysides.livejournal.com
and omg OP you are my favorite, always posting goodies for us... you are too good to us.. *snifs*

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