T-ara's Roly Poly shatters IU's record and becomes the #1 grossing song of 2011 thus far

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

T-ara’s “Roly-Poly” has become 2011’s top grossing song of the year thus far, thanks to its record $2 million USD in sales!

The previous record was set by IU’s “Good Day“, which garnered $1.3 million USD. T-ara shattered that record with the wide appeal of their retro concept, which drew interest not just from young idol fans, but from older audiences who felt a touch of nostalgia when they heard the song.

A representative of Core Contents Media said, “T-ara’s ‘Roly-Poly’ has been at the top for 10 weeks, bringing in $2 million USD in sales.”

The song averaged $30,000 USD in digital sales per day, and came up as the top digital hit song of the year. On August 1st, ‘Roly Poly’ recorded $200,000 USD alone, setting records all across the Korean digital music market. Hit albums usually only average about $300,000 USD in digital sales, so ‘Roly-Poly’ has definitely set a record that’s hard to achieve in the market.

While preparing to bid their fans farewell this week, the girls commented, “Thank you to all of our fans for giving so much love to ‘Roly-Poly’ over the past two months. We’re glad we were able to bring up fond memories for our fans in their 40s and 60s.”

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Comments

[ms-rancha.livejournal.com]

lol

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Well-deserved, it sounded like a smash hit from the first teaser. But it's hard to focus on positives when we've just seen the promotional photos from their JP Bo Beep launch.

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

Those are just promotional pictures lol. The single covers aren't anything like that and judging by the BTS from the MV that will be normal too

[geekpants.livejournal.com]

Roly Poly is so catchy but.

[thewarpedmelody.livejournal.com]

I love Luan <3

[top-fifty.livejournal.com]

fuck yeahhhhhhhhh

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

i guess the fact they re-released the song so many times helped

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

yes i am LMAO

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

There was one remix and the sales from that aren't included in this

[kiminikaeru.livejournal.com]

ikr

[sballet06.livejournal.com]

Yup

[top-fifty.livejournal.com]

this so much

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, rightly so. :D

[iheartmango.livejournal.com]

don't get the hate. love this song. its a great catchy and fun kpop song. frigging addictive too. and their concept is A+

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

gj for them!

[unreal.livejournal.com]

Then I'm one of the few who didn't like it. Their anoying voices ruined the song for me. + the fact that their live performances bothered me way to much.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Felt that their live performances of this showed a group who had become truly comfortable on stage - swagger, laid-back self-confidence.

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

WOOOT! im addicted to it XD

[cloudinawhirl.livejournal.com]

Congrats to the girls, I love this song, so I'm very happy that it's doing so well :D

[mouthwash.livejournal.com]

well deserved imo. roly poly is genius! i loved the concept as a whole.
get it girls ♥

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

I don't like a lot T-ara (only because they are shitty performers tbh imo), but Roly-Poly is really adictive and it was a great song to jam to during summer. So, somehow, it's deserved.

[hurtmybones.livejournal.com]

Loly Poly is horrible tho.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___sasuka/]

wow dayum good job

hope they get some $$$ out of it

[flyingmemory.livejournal.com]

I hope T-ara will come back again with Lies or TTL but since Bo Peep and Roly Poly is their successful songs, I guess their next songs will still be like Bo Peep/Roly Poly type

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

[jiwoon.livejournal.com]

Flawless gif. IA.

[hotelmirana.livejournal.com]

lol IA

[underhand-glory.livejournal.com]

i loved the mv but ughhhhh the song. also they totally dead-eye all their perfs.

[my-car-is-prada.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed with this song but I love these girls so I am glad they are doing well.

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

Well-deserved. It's a great song (u r good job Shinsadong Tiger-nim), has great choreography, great styling, you name it. I also think it has staying power, perhaps even beyond that of Bo Peep's.

I only wish some members of T-ARA had a little more...spark? when they perform it (especially looking at you, Jiyeon). Eunjung and Hyomin--and to a lesser extent, Soyeon--are the only ones worth writing home about when it comes to these Roly-Poly performances.

[dotdotdotting.livejournal.com]

It's a catchy song, I'll give them that. So I'm not surprised it got good sales :o

[obeytheempress.livejournal.com]

The song is a LOT of fun and I love it. But I'm. Ot a T-ara fan because they don't even try on stage. But the song is great so... good for them, I guess.

[miinolee.livejournal.com]

I hope they come back with something similar to "I go Crazy because of You."

[picklesnjam.livejournal.com]

same... i hope they dont follow Secret's label and release something that sounds like Roly Poly Pt 2 (ie. Magic and Madonna)

[miinolee.livejournal.com]

Oh god, that would be horrible lol