Girls’ Generation is looking to hit the “million seller” mark very soon.
On May 11th, the Gaon Chart showed that Girls’ Generation’s 3rd album, “The Boys”, which was released on October 19th of 2011, has officially passed the 400,000 sales mark as of April of 2012, with a total of 410,542 albums sold. This is the highest record achieved by any single album (excluding repackaged albums) since the beginning of the Gaon Chart in 2010.
With “The Boys”, Girls’ Generation has now sold a total of 978,887 albums in South Korea. Their second album, “Oh!”, sold 218,552 copies, while their second repackage album, “Run Devil Run”, recorded 168,998 copies sold. Their third mini-album, “Hoot”, then sold 180,825 copies.
Since the year 2000, the digital album market has grown exponentially while sales of physical albums have been stagnant. Experts say that selling a million physical copies in the age of digital media can be considered an achievement similar to legends such as Kim Gunmo and Shin Seunghoon, artists who sold over 10 million albums in the 1990s.
Meanwhile, Girls’ Generation’s first subunit group, Girls’ Generation – TTS, is doing very well. Their first mini-album’s title song, “Twinkle”, recorded 604,870 downloads in its first week of release and won the top spot on the weekly download chart for the second week of May.
Source: Starin
Translated by: dongie@soshified,
Edited by: Best Served Soup@soshified, bhost909@soshified
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thats why i like maths !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 way to go !
It’s girls generation time! ^_^
Soshi Fighting!
Congrats again girls for all the wonderful achievements!!! This is just the beginning of things to come. World domination! :D
Nevermind…
I think I misunderstood the sentence..
Umm…
Can you prove how The Boys” has sold a total of 978,887 albums in South Korea??
GIRLS’ GENERATION is just awesome~! ♥
All the best for SNSD!! God Bless
SNSD will be disband soon. It is to make way for TTS to shine more in the world. I’m sure TTS will get one million album sold…
Girls’ Generation is making a comeback with a Japanese single soon. A Korean comeback will happen later in the year. Please look forward to Girls’ Generation’s new songs! ^_^
What makes you think they will disband soon???? don’t count your chickens till they hatch. Besides, Interscope has plans for the whole group. Did you lest forget????
As a SONE, i definitely feel offended by the word “disband” when i’m sure everyone knows that they wont and even in 10 years or 30 years down the road they will still be members of SNSD.
I would’ve fly something to you if you said that to me in my face lol.
SNSD FOREVER.
baseless, and shallow. =.= you are a disgrace to SONEs.
They aren’t disbanding, yet, and won’t for a few years at least, but what IS happening,. imo, is that SMTown is doing a great job of management of their careers. You have TaeTiSeo, HyoYeon on dancing with the stars, Jessica popping around to a bunch of shows, Yoona in a drama, Yuri in a drama. That’s just a few examples.
They can’t tour / produce albums with such diversity in their schedules at this moment. Other than sub-groups.
What you are seeing is SM preparing their careers for when the group does finish, they aren’t just going to drop them at the end of their contracts, if the girls become even more marketable as celebs solo, you will see Girls Generation last for much longer (possibly a decade) if SM can keep their image fresh in an industry known for turnover. Kudos to SM for working hard.
Sadly They will never achieved one million. But dont worry TTS will get one million for SNSD.
There you go again being pessimistic. How do you know this? Are you psychic? If so, what are the winning lottery numbers please! ^_^
From what i see, you dont seem like a true fan to me, but instead someone retarded who just comment without using his/ her brains :)
I definitely dont feel sorry for saying these comments.
You should not say anything when they are not true :)
Hahahahaha Obviously you’re TROLLING.
Wow! Never fail to amaze eh! SNSD Jjang! Well done! Proud to be a sone! :)
YES! Girls’ Generation are amazing!!!!! I’ll forever keep buying physical albums along with the digital on itunes because physical albums are beautiful and come with so much goodies!! Like posters and photos and photocards!! The boys is a gorgeous album, I love how it’s made from tin and so fancy ^o^!!
Another record achieved by SNSD and it’s very nice to know this. Wah.. Proud to be SONE.. It’s a good logic, in the year 2000, the sales of hard copy CD is stagnant because of digital album. So getting 1million copies sold is a great achievement.. Way to go SNSD.. God bless them..
I don’t get it. It says the Boys’ sales only reached 400,000. But why does it says again it will reach a million? Please explain?
The article says that The Boys has sold more than 400, 000 albums, which is the highest record for a SINGLE ALBUM (take note here, first).
And Girls’ Generation, in all their sales, has almost hit a million, counting sales from ALL ALBUMS.
The one million is the number they are approaching in total album sales since Gaon has been tracking album sales in 2010. It does not count prior sales of their 1st album nor of their Gee and Genie mini-albums; counting those would launch them way past the one million mark, of course :)
nice people r taking a liking to their albums. hope they keep it up as well SNSD. FIGHTING
this is so awesome! 8D
our girls are becoming legends, i’m so proud~ x3
Indeed, it’s SNSD :)
if they count the physical from snsd tts album,it would be more than a million copies now since the physical sold more than 50.000copies yesterday…first 1million in japan..now 1million in korea..next 10million in usa..n 100million in the world XD..nothing is impossible coz its girls generation..hwaitaeng soshi n sone..
huhuhu…daebak….
One million! Daebak! SNSD, we Sones will always support you! No matter what!!
wahhhh…. i believe the girl’s… i kn0w the soshi will make the revolution in kpop industry, but not only in korea but around the world… for example in Malaysia, it’s small, but have impact… saranghae SNSD..
소녀시대 is Spreading worldwide^^
I agree with you Vilmiza90. Malaysia Sone here! The girls needa come here to feel the love of MYSone as well. x) Got Tiffany’s STARCALL this morning. Really happy! Thanks for the call! Hope to get more! :) Saranghae!
It’s like our girls are award magnets!
I am so proud to see how great they are doing.
im happy reading this kind of news.
seems like everyday they step into another higher place.
and yess, our Global Generation already started !
it is very true that now compared to just the 1990’s, when it
comes to physical album sales, has changed drastically. with
it now being so accessible to get music digitally, you have to
really appreciate or even love an artist in order to buy millions
of their albums…and that’s exactly what we’re doing doing here…
showing that the love and appreciation that we have for these
girls outweighs our sense of convenience…and that is a very hard
thing to do :-)
Global Generation <3