SM Entertainment fabricates Super Junior's sales

[lopezfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

Korean media company SM Entertainment is claiming that one of their artists, Super Junior, has sold over 100,000 copies of their debut single, "BONAMANA (Bijin)," the alleged highest debut single sales for a Korean artist. Late Tuesday, June 14, they wrote:

Super Junior sold over 100,000 copies of this single for the first run. With this, it made people realize the intense interest of Japanese fans for Super Junior.

The information was published by SM on their official SM Town Facebook page despite reports from Oricon that the single only sold 59,262 copies in its first week. SM also claimed that Super Junior had no "promotion activity in Japan prior to the single album’s release,", yet stated just a few paragraphs down, "Super Junior was picked as a model and sang the commercial song for the famous Japanese convenience store ‘CircleK Sunkus,'" which sounds suspiciously like promotion.

The sales scandal comes just a few weeks after the Korean media was caught lying about 2PM's sales in Japan, claiming that the boyband sold 72,000 copies in their first day despite Oricon reporting no more than 42,000 copies possibly sold.

Source: SM Town & Oricon
Investigative journalism: dookmi @ arama
Anonymous tipster: lopezfitzgerald
Snacks and catering provided by: albondiga 

Comments

[nortonamo.livejournal.com]

I for one am surprised.

[nortonamo.livejournal.com]

btw I do not think it is anonymous if you say the tipster's name

JUST LIKE I SAID ON ARAMA

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

its ok

at least sm isn't lying about the relevant snsd

bye suju

Re: JUST LIKE I SAID ON ARAMA

[feel-my-mind.livejournal.com]

Its probably Avex telling to SME.

Avex doctored Ayu, Kumi and Tohoshinki (and more) sales in "Avex sales reports" before.

[kyupudding.livejournal.com]

As I said on Arama, it was probably mistranslated and they actually meant shipments.

[chachanchan.livejournal.com]

I've read in another translation that it was shipments or initial orders, not sales that were 100K.
And also not "promotion activity in Japan prior to the single album’s release" it was "without extensive marketing or promotions for this single."
Seriously, SM should translate accurately.

[shadow-kitty47.livejournal.com]

old picture haha omg siwon's hair i cant

[oppa-did-meanit.livejournal.com]

Had to go back and look and lolololol at all of them. Especially Yesung and Shindong omg what is air?

[iyarheaa.livejournal.com]

lawld.

[rocketjenny.livejournal.com]

Korea loves to lie how well their idols are doing in Japan/other places not surprised.

[djlancerock.livejournal.com]

That's such a nice and recent photo.

[dandanfung.livejournal.com]

ohmygod old picture, it's kibum...

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

love the credits on this post

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

though seriously, kpop companies/media need to stop talking like this. japan actually has a pretty legit chart unlike korea. you can't just go around claiming stuff without getting caught

[o-o-mai-o-o.livejournal.com]

Shindong's head in that picture. omg.

[mymagiclantern.livejournal.com]

someone needs to photoshop a cat up in there.

[mymagiclantern.livejournal.com]

[cnidaria-jin.livejournal.com]

LOL obviously Sho is shocked XD

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

lol shindong @ pic

[albondiga.livejournal.com]

just like when YG pretends shipping 100k to stores means bom's jowls are huge and in demand!!!


so done with korea!

[jibegajima.livejournal.com]

bye.

[birdofpray09.livejournal.com]

You keep expressing your distaste for SM, Jaejoong! I approve.

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

lol Korean media

[girlz23.livejournal.com]

lol shibrows in ur icon. XD

[geureiseu.livejournal.com]

Might be mistranslated? LOL IDEK. But SJ did debut at No.2 on Oricon Daily Charts last week. ^^;;

http://yfrog.com/z/h45lvcp

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

SME translated it and posted it on its FB

http://www.facebook.com/notes/smtown/super-juniors-first-japanese-single-ranked-2nd-on-the-oricon-weekly-chart/207564965953012

They claim they sold 100,000 and Oricon says otherwise. Oricon is really reliable btw.

How Oricon works:

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

- Oricon counts ALL versions of each release.
- Oricon only releases the top 3 sales for the daily singles and albums charts.
- Oricon will release the full sales weekly, monthly and yearly.
- Oricon releases the number of copies sold to the buyers (fans) by the sellers (outlets/stores/shops, etc), NOT the number of copies shipped to the market (outlets/stores/shops) by the record labels. That is the role of RIAJ physical certification.

Re: How Oricon works:

[gabucha26.livejournal.com]

I wish more ppl would understand how Oricon works. It really isn't that hard.

[tofucakes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for investigating!! ^-^

[lub-lub-lub.livejournal.com]

Completely OT, but your Tracy Flick icons give me unfair high school flashbacks because this movie was filmed at my school :D

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

omg the credits of this post bring tears to my eyes, i always get emotional when people show this kind of commitment and integrity to anything.

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Did SM actually release the original info? Whoever runs the official facebook seems to just be translating false info. SM should know better

[feel-my-mind.livejournal.com]

They probably got the number from Avex NOT oricon. Avex is known for marking up their sales in their Avex sales reports (examples: Koda Kumi's Black Cherry went from 1,032K to 1,450K and Ayu's guilty went from 568,288 to 750,000)

Also, the translation(from the original Korean) is terrible, so there probably something we're missing.

[epinette.livejournal.com]

Um okay

[gabucha26.livejournal.com]

omg what a horrible picture! they look like a group of hosts...

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

they should have a host jdrama

[taeminsponytail.livejournal.com]

Kyuhyun, save yourself and abandon this sinking ship!

[chachanchan.livejournal.com]

If you mean the sinking ship as that picture above, yes, Kyuhyun saved himself XD

[ryukokoro-oppa.livejournal.com]

Here for the ancient pic of SuJu.
Regardless if it's translation or them fabricating sales..

SM

[lub-lub-lub.livejournal.com]

lol irl at your gif