Overwhelming Amount Of 85,000 Preorders To Big Bang Album

With the release of Big Bang's new album "Stand Up", featuring title song "Haru Haru (Everyday everyday)" and other songs like "Oh, My Friend", this weekend, there has been much concern on the overwhelming response to this new album.A representative of YG Entertainment said on 5th August, "Till right now 5th August 5pm, Big Bang’s new album has received preorder of 85,000 copies. Our first batch production has only produced 50,000 copies. With just 3 days into preordering, we have received overwhelming response. Hence we are now rushing on additional production."Big Bang has been the one of the number 1 bestselling artiste groups in Korea, and this time with their new minialbum, they caused a lot of interests and responses from music fans.A record sales chart released their results on 5th August and Big Bang was ranked number one with 270,000 copies in the past 1 year (2007.08.04 ~ 2008.08.02) "Singers Annual Chart".

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Charts: Amuro's "BEST FICTION" Sets 2008 Record

Namie Amuro's "BEST FICTION" attained the No. 1 ranking some weeks' Oricon album charts. The album's first week of sales totaled 681,000 copies, the best start by any album this year. It narrowly surpassed EXILE's "EXILE CATCHY BEST," which sold 680,000 copies during its first week this past March. "BEST FICTION" marks Amuro's 7th #1 album since she went solo in 1995. This is a new record among female artists who were originally in a group; Amuro was previously tied with Takako Okamura of Amin. Two other new releases made it into the top 10. R&B group COLOR reached #6 with their latest, while a tribute album for Yu Aku squeezed out the #10 spot. On the singles chart, Mr.Children's "GIFT" ranked #1 with 194,000 copies sold. It was up against "Hi wa, Mata Noboru," the debut single from Aladdin the second, which sold 152,000 copies. That group consists of the members of Pabo and Shuchishin, the two popular "baka trios" from Fuji TV's "Quiz! Hexagon II" THE ALFEE's Toshihiko Takamizawa made #4 with his new song, and C-ute was not far behind at #5. The bottom half of the top 10 saw new releases by Remioromen (#6), RIP SLYME (#7), ALI PROJECT (#9), and Kalafina (#10).
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‘90s K-pop Icons Return with New Albums

" Legendary K-pop artist Seo Taiji finished shooting a special 75-minute comeback show at the MBC Dream Center on July 31. Following at his heels is Kim Gun-mo, another legendary K-pop solo artist of the 90s, who will officially return to the k-pop scene on August 2 by making a one-hour guest appearance on ‘Kim Jeong-eun’s Chocolate’, a popular talk show on SBS. Kim’s close friends and popular TV personalities Kim Yong-man, Kim Je-dong, Ji Seok-jin will also appear on the show alongside the artist, whose comeback is being met with high expectations from both music industry personnel and K-pop fans. MBC and SBS, two of Korea’s three major broadcasting companies, will inevitably have to compete with each other in terms of viewer ratings as the two shows will be broadcast on the same day. Both artists are confident that their new songs will be among the biggest K-pop hits of this season. The title track of Seo Taiji’s 8th single album ‘Moai’ has faired well since its debut, nabbing top spots in numerous K-pop charts. For his latest album, Kim has collaborated with composer Kim Chang-hwan for the first time in 13 years. The renowned composer wrote many of Kim’s past hits including one of the singer’s biggest hits ‘Excuses’. "
source:http://www.kpopmusic.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=126

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