Album sales for the first half of 2009

[wishdreamx3.livejournal.com]

The online album stats site Hanteo Chart reported that Super Junior topped album sales in the first half of this year. Released on March 13, Super Junior’s third album with the title song “Sorry Sorry” sold nearly 110 thousand copies in the first six months of 2009.

Following in second place is Girls’ Generation. The girls’ mini album containing “Gee” was rolled out in early January, selling over 72 thousand copies. Girls’ Generation was undoubtedly the hottest group in the earlier part of the year and hopes to ride the momentum into the second half with their new release “Genie (a.k.a. Tell Me Your Wish).”

Legendary Seo Tae-ji took third place with his second single “Atomos Part Secret” from his eighth album. If his first eighth album single, “Atomos Part Moai” released in late July last year is included, his two singles related to “Seotaji 8th Atomos” have recorded more than 200 thousand copies in album sales.

SG Wannabe came in fourth in album sales (nearly 40,000 copies sold) with their sixth album released in April.

Source: KBS

To put it simply:

1. Super Junior's 3rd album "Sorry Sorry" (110,000 copies sold)
2. Girls' Generation's mini-album "Gee" (72,000 copies sold)
3. Seo Taeji's 8th album "The Eighth Atamos Part Secret" (not specified)
4. SG Wannabe's 6th album "Gift From SG Wannabe - I Love You" (40,000 copies sold)

Comments

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

i wonder how many taiji sold

:) sg wannabe yay

[baka-tenshi.livejournal.com]

surprising that seo took 3rd instead of #1. D:

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

I've read that it was SM that said they exceeded 200,000 so that might've been an exaggeration.

[distortedinpink.livejournal.com]

Maybe the other 90 thousand were their older albums? *shrug*

[bufonophobia.livejournal.com]

SM likes to uhh.. do 'certain things' to make their artists sales look better, i think.
i read an interesting article on SM Ent. about that sort of stuff, it was pretty sketchy.

[miduhyo.livejournal.com]

yeah, hanteo only reports a percentage, for all artists. miak was more accurate, but it was slower and now it's gone.

[memorialaddrss.livejournal.com]

i thought "Gee" did over 100k for some reason :\

[missatira.livejournal.com]

gee definitely sold over a 100,000
it was made a big deal cuz it was their third (?) 100,000 sale

[miduhyo.livejournal.com]

wasn't there talk like, months ago of actually establishing something like that? i mean, honestly, it is really ridiculous that there's no official chart for something this (i feel) important.

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

its amazing how american singers sell more than that in their first week alone when they are popular. How do they make money?

[herro-is-vip.livejournal.com]

Goods, endorsements, and concerts. That's true for most artists korean or otherwise.

[speakoslow.livejournal.com]

These numbers are soo depressing. It definitely tells us where the KPOP world has gone when it comes to CD sells, DOWNHILL. I remember when Korean musicians used to sell millions of CDs. S.E.S. at their peak sold 700,000+ CDs...while G.O.D. had 2 albums sell over a million copies...and to think that even SUJU can't sell over 500,000 CDs is pretty sad....correct me if I'm wrong but the only artist/s who has been able to sell over 500,000 copies in the last few years is DBSK's MIROTIC, right?

[ho-snaaap.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the last album that sold over 500,000 copies was Kim Gun Mo’s album in 2003.

[bunny-hime07.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I though so too. I think they were the first to hit 500,000 in the last five years.

[thegreencloud.livejournal.com]

Even if I think those might not be the entire numbers of sales (idk, maybe digital sales aren't included), those numbers are pretty sad.

No wonder everybody's leaving for Japan: groups can sell more than that in one day/1 week.

Good for SM I guess.