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Super Junior rules the first half of 2009

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GhostWriter in Music | 06 Jul 2009 - 09:27 AM

 
Super Junior

Hanteo Chart recently released sales figures for the first half (first 6 months) of 2009 and Super Junior's album "Sorry Sorry," which was released in March came out on top with sales of 110,000 units. Fellow SM Entertainment members SNSD / Girls' Generation came in second with their January release of "Gee," which sold 75,000 units. Legendary singer Seo Taiji came in third with "Seotaiji Atomos Part Secret" selling 59,000 units.

With TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki doing sales of over 350,000 for "Mirotic" (not including the over 330,000 preorders for the album) and having top sales for 2008, it seems SM Entertainment has been dominating the charts. It looks like that trend will continue in 2009.



  
 

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jeongho's avatar

Yay for Korean marketing! whooooooooooo

 
Beccaaa_x's avatar

Second:D, Super Junior <3

 
Visual$'s avatar

Ackk I wish another company would dominate.

not that I dislike SM or anything, but this just makes father SM’s head bigger.

D<

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:35 AM

4. dbsk555 (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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SM Family ROCKS!!!!

 
loOveStephyx3's avatar

super juniorrr<333
i like them more then dbsk… hahaahaa eunhyukk<3

 
taetae's avatar

Congrats SUJU <333~!!!!!!! and soshi too.  SM jjang!

 
annafeera's avatar

SM hwaiting! xD

 
Bummie_Lee's avatar

sujuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
yay
thats great? lol

 
halika's avatar

snsd ‘s sell was over 100.000 not 75,000 lol

 
rcsn's avatar

congratzzz !super junior!

 
RicaWinter's avatar

Dayummm….... The president and the managers at SM entertainment must have been having a blast!!! That’s a lot’sa money babeh!!!

 
GottaCatchEmAll's avatar

SM is impressive. Although I’m more of a YG fan.

 
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pretty sure SM’s artists are always real smooth with the offline sales =) SM Town RAWKSSS !!!! LOL

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:41 AM

14. bella (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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love super junior!!
xoxo
fighting!

 
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Yaay Suju.. >.< Heechul is thaa best.. =P

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:45 AM

16. clearsky (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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congratulation!!!! u guys lighten my day ^^

 
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♡ SuJu! ♡ ..EunHyuk!! ♡ ~ x X x ~

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:47 AM

18. To 9. halika (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:47 AM

19. 121 (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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lol i just noticed how low is the album and single sales in korea if i compare it to Japan male groups like arashi who sold 500.000 copies in 2 of their last singles in just one week and female singers like amuro namie sold 1.7million copies in her last album and super junior just sold 110.000?!! and snsd who were toping the charts just sold 75000copies wow lol no wonder why many korean singers go to debut in Japan

 
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hanteo doesnttake preorders to count? ok i was shocked when i thought sorry sorry only sold 110,000. I love SM FAMILY! Suju/TVXQ/SNSD/Shinee hwaiting!

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:48 AM

21. tika (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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it’s really low compared to other countries, It won’t make much money.. artists don’t depend on album sales nowadays, “thnks” to online legal or illegal downloads.. sighh I remember in 2002 just being a local band in my country can sold over 1 million copies.. thank god they still make money from CF’s, mobile ringtones, etc

 
aretta's avatar

SM RULES!!

 
ambii's avatar

this is very true. congrats SuJu! :D

 
summersnow501's avatar

horaaaaay~ xD

 
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SN family pwns!!!! ^__________^
congrats SUJU! SM family hwaiting!

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:52 AM

26. To 19. 121 (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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Before the internet and mp3, album sales in Korea was up to 1.5 million - 2 million. But you have to account that Japan population is several times larger than South Korea.

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:52 AM

27. SMtown (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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@9 this is ONLY hanteo smile Super junior and snsd sold more albums. SM FTW!!!!

 
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suju fighting! :D love them! hyukkie ~~

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:54 AM

29. arika (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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SM Town Fighting!!!!! love all of them.

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 09:54 AM

30. abcdef (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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@9: This is about HANTEO chart only, and on HANTEO chart, Gee’s album sales is about 75000.

 
CssndrAznGirl's avatar

good job super junior!!! <3

 
alliexoxo's avatar

mmmmmmm I love suju!

 
Beat's avatar

seems like SJ wil dominte Hanteo by the end of 2009.  BB can outsell them any day with their albums but they won’t release anything this year. DBSK might not go back to Korea after their huge success in Japan. If it’s not DBSK or BB, nobody can beat SJ in terms of sales.

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 10:00 AM

34. K (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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YEAH Super Junior jjang!  DBSK, SUJU, SNSD, SHINee Rocks my world

 
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SM r really known 4 their hit+top artist…

Super Junior—SNSD—TVXQ—SHINee n others…

fighting2 4 SM artist…!! ^^

 
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considering Japan is the 2nd largest music industry (behind America) in the world it doesnt surprise me that artist sell that much. but you have to take into the music industry recession in the past couple of years. it not only hit S. Korea but Japan and America. Its also cause of illegal downloads. But in terms of popularity in Asia SuJu and DBSK are way more popular than any Japanese Boyband. cause most Japanese artist do not venture out of Japan.
DBSK’s hug sold like 300,000 copies back in 2004-05. that was their debut single. while if u compare Shinee’ s sales with their album and mini-album combine they sold just over 100,000.  Also HOT, SES, Shinwa, FinKL their sales were impressive as well. Much more then how much artist sell today. But SUJU did sell over 250,000 copies including online sales and stuff.

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 10:04 AM

37. jaeb_seatle (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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Eh?! but 2pm is better than super junior :/

 
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good job suju and snsd!!!!!!!!

 
nut_cracker's avatar

no wonder..totally agree…
coz their song r really FUN+CACTHY…pp love it..^^
even my aunt love it…lol..XD

 
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Congrats^^

 
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suju rules!

 
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And this is why kpop acts always tries to invade the jap market LOL & grats to suju! I’m happy that they beat gee ;D they’re sure growing in popularity these days. But no one can beat the mirotic sales LOL

 
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Yay super junior <3

 
getlazy's avatar

yay suju <3

 
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yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy go superjunior! <33333

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 10:11 AM

46. 13suju (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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I’m happy for suju guys.  SM artists rulz!  Super Junior is love.

 
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Congratulations! I love Super Junior.

 
TaekLove101's avatar

Even though that’s great for them, i’m still up for some JYP :D

 
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06 Jul 2009 - 10:14 AM

49. elfnshineeworld (Unregistered User - Sign Up!)

 
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@42 Suju > dbsk wink

 
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Lmao YAY sm is going to rule the market Lols…

 


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