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
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Comments

[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.