Girls' Generation and KARA, who have earned the title of Hallyu representatives in Japan, have been competing head-to-head on whom will be taking home a "million certified" album first.
It looks like Girls' Generation took the lead as their first Japanese album, "Girls' Generation", which was released on June last year, surpassed the one million sales mark on January 11th, half a year later.
The only Korean singer to ever have reached a million album sales is the "Asia’s Star", BoA. Her 2nd Japanese album "Valenti" which was released in January 2003 recorded sales of a whooping 1.24 million copies while her "Best of Soul" album released in February 2005 sold 1.09 million copies. Being the first Korean girl group to surpassed the one million mark is an amazing accomplishment for Girls’ Generation.
Girls’ Generation took the top spot on the Oricon chart in their first appearance, and stayed in the top ten for thirteen weeks, a record for a “long-seller”. After being labeled as a "Double Platinum" album for selling more than 500,000 copies, the group released a new song along with a repackaged album in December, making its way to break new record.
Source: soshified
Written by: jhezwafu @dkpopnews.net
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