A look into 1st half of year 2009 – Girls Generation and Super Junior reined

Even though the meaning to album sales has began to take a smaller part to the releasing a new album, but in anyway it is still important to a singer in terms of the value of the music and the singer’s success.

So who has the best album sales in the Kpop realm for the 1st half of year 2009? We follow Hanteo chart to find the results tabulated as till 30th May.

And group Super Junior is said to have the highest album sales, with group So Nyeo Shi Dae following behind at #2. We have our Kings and Queens for the 1st half of 2009!

Super Junior had the highest number of album sales for this 1st half of year 2009. They released their 3rd album ‘Sorry Sorry’ in March selling over 100,ooo copies and then they went on to release version C of the album, to breakthrough 200,000 copies sold.

Following behind at #2 is group So Nyeo Shi Dae. They previously released their 1st minialbum ‘Gee’ in January and seeing over 70,000 copies.

The rest of the results:

1. Super Junior with 200,000 copies sold of ‘Sorry Sorry’
2. So Nyeo Shi Dae with 70,000 copies sold of ‘Gee’
3. Singer Seo Taiji sold 59,000 copies with his 8th album single ‘Seotaiji Atomos Part Secret’.
4. Shin Hye Sung sold a total of 35,000 copies ofhis 3rd album ‘Keep Leaves’
5. Bobby Kim with 34,000 copies sold for his special album.
6. SG Wannabe with 29,000 album sales for 6th album ‘Gift From SG WannaBe’
7. Indie band Jang Gi Ha and the Faces with 29,000 copies sold of their 1st album ‘Living without any special things (별일없이 산다)’
8. Davichi is at #8 with 28,000 copies sold of their minialbum giving hits like ‘8282′ and ‘Get into an accident’
9. Fly To The Sky last 8th album ‘Decennium’ selling 27,000 copies
10. Jo Sung Mo with 23,000 album sales for 7th album ‘Second Half’.

With the first half of 2009 ending, and we have the latter half the year – with many new additions to the competition like 2NE1, HyunA’s group 4Minutes and T-ara’s debuts, Big Bang, Se7en, KARA, So Nyeo Shi Dae and SS501’s comebacks – we have just more to look out for.
credits: K bites

Boys Over Flower After Story

The much awaited Boys Over Flower After Story was released yesterday…with it’s 1st and 2nd episode, the 1st episode contains the “SoEulmates” after story, for those of you who does not know who SoEulmates are its the given couple name for (So Yi Jung and Ga Eul)….the other episodes of this Boys Over Flower After Story will be released next week….so to all of you who’s still craving for more BOF moments stay tuned

credits:hoonfami@youtube.com<——for the video

Teaser Video? IS this really TRUE??

IS this Really TRUE????

Fans are left clueless after videos named ‘Boys Over Flowers Special Edition teaser video’, and some named the video ‘Boys Over Flowers Season 2 sneakpeak’, surfaced on the internet. The video is made by Planet905, which is also the company to Kim Joon on the cast.

The video shows the possible scenario of the F4 5 years later. Some netizens points this to a possible music drama release. Nothing more has been mentioned about it yet. We shall see. But if anything, 28th April is the date to note on the calender for fans.

credit: scentofyours
source: kbites

Lee Min Ho for Pepsi vs Kim Hyun Joong for Coke

CocaCola and Pepsi has chosen the two main actors of the Drama ” Boys over Flower” as their models.

CocaCola’s new saida ( T/N : i think it means carbonated soft drink in korean..) Dynamic kin was released on the 17th. They has chosen actor Kim Hyun Joong and actress Park Shin Hye as the faces for the new drink

Earlier on the 15th, rival company Pepsi’s new diet saida ‘Pepsi Nex’ was released, and the company has chosen LEE MINHO and the past Mi.Ko.(미.코 Miss Korea) Lee Honey as their models.

Kim Hyun Joong signed 6 months contract for the CocaCola’s model agreement, and Lee Minho as well has signed a 6 months contract with Pepsi. Lee Minho’s CF for Pepsi Nex will be released in MAY.

CocaCola’s Brand manager Lee Ji Hyun rep. said ” the soft and polished up image of Kim Hyun Joong, and refreshingly sexy image of park Shin Hye matches well with the Refreshing taste of the DYNAMIC KIN saida, and through this we believed it was appropriate to chose the two models to represent CocaCola’s new saida.

Pepsi’s Rep said ” We are working very hard to raise the Pepsi Nex’s market share in Korea by using fast attack strategy, and so we used Boys Over Flower’s main face Lee Minho as the model just like the other two asian countries BOF models.”

Just like the two characters in the drama, Pepsi and CocaCola has been long rivals. Through this new model deal, they have brought the drama’s rivalry to reality. It’ll definitely create more interest among the people.

It will be interesting to see how well the two saida companies will use the marketing strategy with these two rising stars

Source : Hankyung
translation by misshakissh @ soompi.com

SS501 to Meet Fans in Air

The five-man band SS501 will take its Korean and Japanese fans to Jeju Island on chartered planes for a fan meeting there, DSP Media, the band’s agency, said on Thursday.

Jin Air is to provide the two flights between Gimpo and Jeju and Busan and Jeju for the event scheduled for May 2 and 3. The group’s five members will be divided into two groups to board each plane and personally serve the fans in the cabin.

In Jeju, the band will hold a fan meeting at the International Convention Center and a garden party at a hotel, and take part in a tour program with fans.

A Jin Air staffer said, “As soon as we started to receive bookings on our website, so many people visited it that all seats were booked in two hours.” Some 200 Japanese fans also made reservations.

The music channel Mnet will accompany the flights to cover the event to broadcast a program under the title of “SS501 Romantic Sky” in late May.

Meanwhile, the band will release a regular album in July.

credits:KBS Global

ORIGINAL TEXT:
[뉴스엔 윤현진 기자]

가수 강균성이 인기 여성아이돌그룹 카라의 니콜에게 감사의 의미로 DSLR 카메라를 선물했다.

강균성은 입대 전 ‘해피앤드(Happy and)’라는 곡을 함께 불러준 카라의 니콜에게 DSLR 카메라를 선물한 이유에 대해 “니콜에게 정말 고맙다. 뭘 선물할까 고민했다”며 “니콜이 평소 사진 찍기를 좋아하는데 카메라가 고장 났다고 해서 카메라를 선물하게 됐다. 노래나 뮤직비디오에 예쁜 모습으로 열심히 참여해줘 뭐라도 해주고 싶었다”고 전했다

강균성의 소속사 울림엔터테인먼트 측은 “니콜이 선물을 받고 많이 좋아했고 다른 멤버들의 시샘도 받고 있다”고 밝혔다.

현재 ‘해피앤드(Happy and)’는 각 온라인 차트 20위권 내에 진출하며 발매 5일 만에 선풍적인 인기를 끌고 있다. 강균성과 니콜이 함께 부른 러브송 ‘해피앤드(Happy and)’를 접한 팬들은 “니콜이 랩만 하는줄 알았는데 목소리가 너무 예쁘다” “강균성과 니콜의 목소리가 참 잘 어울린다”고 호평했다.

한편 강균성은 지난 9일 논산훈련소에 입소했다. 강균성은 4주간 기초군사훈련을 받은 후 서울 용산구에서 공익근무요원으로 대체복무한다.

TRANSLATED TEXT:
Singer Kang Gyun Sung gave Nicole, one of girl idol group members, a DSLR Camera as a thank you gift.

Before he entered the military, Kang Gyun Sung recorded ‘Happy and’ with Nicole. He said, “I am really thankful for Nicole. I really contemplated about what to give her. I remembered Nicole telling me that she really likes taking photos but her camera got broken, so I gave her a camera as a gift. I really wanted to do something for her hard work for my music as well as the music video.”

Kang Gyun Sung’s agency, Woolim Entertainment, said, “Nicole was really happy after receiving the gift. The other members were jealous of her.”

Currently, ‘Happy and’ is in the top 20 on various online music charts and it took only five days for the song to gain a huge popularity. The fans said, “We only thought that Nicole raps, but her voice is really pretty. Nicole’s and Kang Gyun Sung’s voices are a very good combination.”

On the other hand, Kang Gyun Sung was enlisted into the army on the 9th of April.

Credits: Newsen
Translated by: hopelesshong@Karaholic