On November 10, Gaon Chart, which is a certified muziek chart, announced that SNSD’s 3rd full album “The Boys” sold 227,994 albums in the maand of October. What is even meer surprising is the fact that because this album was released on October 19, it means that over 200,000 albums was sold within two weeks.
Gaon Chart explained, “The number of albums sold for SNSD’s recent album is the highest record yet for a girl group. If we look at the globaal, algemene ranking in album sales throughout the jaar across all artists, SNSD comes in third place after Super Junior and DBSK.” They also mentioned, “SNSD’s past two album, 2nd full album “OH!” and 3rd mini-album “Hoot”, holds album sales records of 197,934 and 163,066 respectively.”
They also added, “Over the past year, with the increase of the K-Pop boom, the globaal, algemene album sales of Korean idols have increased dramatically. Before the K-Pop boom struck, most albums were sold through fans living in Korea. But now international fans have started ordering albums through Korean record stores online.”
For the maand of October, after SNSD on the album chart was Kim Hyun Joong in seconde place with his 2nd mini-album “Lucky”, selling 94,784 copies. In third place was international super stars JYJ, who have recently successfully finished their first solo concert in Spain and Germany, selling 81,867 copies of their album “In Heaven”.
Gaon Chart’s album sales is calculated door subtracting the wholesale quantities (the number of albums sold) from the total amount in the corresponding warehouses of each record label, then the final value is calculated door aggregating the figures.
The top, boven two artists with the highest records in album sales this jaar are: Super Junior, selling 329,035 albums with their 5th full album “Mr. Simple”, and DBSK selling 244,128 albums with “Why (Keep Your Head Down)”.
