TVXQ has been crowned as the artists with the most album sales for the first quarter of 2011!
On April 28th, Gaon Chart released the album sales figuresfrom January through March of 2011. Results showed that TVXQ placed first with over 200,000 in total sales. Gaon’s representatives stated, “The first quarter of 2011 met with the album releases of TVXQ and Big Bang, both of whom have been away from the industry for a long time.”
The rankings and the number of album copies sold are as follows:
1. TVXQ – “Keep Your Head Down” (236,669)
2. Big Bang – “Fourth Mini-album” (139,104)
3. TVXQ – “Keep Your Head Down, Repackaged” (51,354)
4. CNBLUE – “First Step” (44,414)
5. Seungri – “V.V.I.P.” (41,302)
6. Various Artists – “Park Colleen’s Selections” (35,831)
7. Super Junior-M – “Too Perfect” (35,000)
8. Various Artists – “Secret Garden OST Special” (30,278)
9. MBLAQ – “BLAQ Style” (27,702)
10. GD&TOP – “First Official Album” (23,004)
Source: Newsen, Gaon Chart, Star News
Tip: TaengLove
credit: allkpop
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By: anya on April 28, 2011
at 2:01 pm
CONGRATULATIONS DEAR HOMIN BBs!!!!! :’)))))))))))))))
By: vanillamint on April 28, 2011
at 2:02 pm
wow. that’s seriously a far cry from their previous album achievements.
By: Sonata on April 28, 2011
at 2:05 pm
if you look at the current situation of Korean music industry, the sales are good tbh, Big Bang also used to sell around 300k for their minialbum, so it’s not very surprising
By: vanillamint on April 28, 2011
at 2:11 pm
blame the boycotters :/
By: humhum on April 28, 2011
at 3:26 pm
jyj sales aren’t much different from homin you know, so if you wanna say blame the boycott, it goes both ways.
anyway i personally felt that it’s really good seeing that the current physically sales in korea is nearly dead. even full growing groups like big bang, snsd etc doesn’t sale all that much.
By: sbn on April 28, 2011
at 5:46 pm
i think the sales is coming from the new cassiopeia.
the old cassiopeia(or ex?) boycott them, it’s for sure.
By: lola on April 28, 2011
at 6:27 pm
@lola Obviously,not all old cassies are boycotting Homin.I believe the total sales number mostly comes from the old cassie
By: CarlaYoochun on April 28, 2011
at 9:54 pm
The sales of 1st & 2nd month didn’t exceed 90K which is in line with the fact that majority of old k.cassies (I assume at least 80%) turned away from supporting Homin. Normally, active sales of CD stops after 1 or 2 months, so it is surprising that they sold even more(110K) during 3rd and 4th month. Only explanation might be that a lot of new fans joined as a result of unprecedentedly massive promotion through mass media. To be honest, I can’t stop wondering if Homin’s account would not become minus after subtracting promotional cost.
By: BestWish on April 29, 2011
at 5:21 pm
Humm … looking at the article more carefully, the sales number is 230K for the first 3 months, which is amazing b/c it means that they sold 140K in the 3rd months but only 90K for the 1st and 2nd month.
I stopped following info. from Homin site after the first 2 month, so can’t say what really happened on the 3rd month…. something unusual, I guess.
By: BestWish on April 29, 2011
at 5:35 pm
i think they not really that care about the profit now.
maybe, SM did their very best to promote TVXQ as 2 members group, so this is like debut all over again.
i guess there’ll be a new album later this year..
and that’ll be the one to cover up for this album.
well, that’s my guess..haha
By: lola on April 29, 2011
at 7:46 pm
Not really, those numbers are very consistent with their previous album sales before Mirotic (the only DBSK album that have sold 500,000 and that not even JYJ could reach it in their peak of popularity)
Those nearly 300,000 sales plus 283,000 for the japanese version are an amazing achievement for the boys because they had all the odds against them, coming back after 1.5 years of absence, being the less popular DBSK members, singing under the DBSK name, having a very controversial song as their main single but above all, having more than half of a fandom boycotting them or not caring about them at all.
This is a labor of love from Yunho and Changmin personal fans and Bigeast, nobody else.
By: Ophelia on April 29, 2011
at 11:34 am
Because stans including DNBN told everyone to boycott their album remember?
By: Don on April 29, 2011
at 7:36 pm
Congrats!!!! ^^
awesome job by homin!
& pls no sourgrapes here,Lol.
By: Yoonjae^^ on April 28, 2011
at 2:10 pm
Congrats !!!!!! ^^
and pls no sourgrapes!!!
By: Yoonjae^^ on April 28, 2011
at 2:13 pm
Homin hwaiting!!!! ^^
By: miricia on April 28, 2011
at 2:37 pm
AGREED. FIGHT on Homin and we’ll keep supporting you. We’re so proud of u!!!
By: Shana Xangai on April 29, 2011
at 12:03 pm
wooooooooooo CONGRATSSS HOMIN
to all the ppl who doubted them, eat ur words up
im sooo proud of themmm
they worked soo hard for this album and this is the reward!!!!!
By: purple on April 28, 2011
at 2:45 pm
A+++
By: nati184 on April 28, 2011
at 8:20 pm
By: JaeLuver on April 28, 2011
at 3:06 pm
Ah, okay. I just realised this is only for the first three months of this year. Somehow I thought it’s for album sales in general. Either way I wish HoMin will continue the good work.
By: vik720 on April 28, 2011
at 3:09 pm
LOL Censorship in full bloom!
By: vik720 on April 28, 2011
at 3:11 pm
Congratulations! The fandom should be proud of this achievement, what with the boycott and all and still they managed over 200k Go Cassies go!
By: humhum on April 28, 2011
at 3:25 pm
TVXQ daebak!!!!
By: rika on April 28, 2011
at 4:31 pm
Definitely, they are DBSK! *Proud!*
By: Jasmine on April 28, 2011
at 4:59 pm
thx for sharing dear!
By: norah on April 28, 2011
at 5:43 pm
I’m really proud of them, congrats!
But didn’t JYJ sell 150000 copies as well? O.o
By: Alixana on April 28, 2011
at 5:45 pm
maybe JYJ’s album didn’t count in Gaon chart…
By: lana on April 28, 2011
at 6:19 pm
That’s the pre-orders. And pre-orders =/= ACTUAL sales.
Plus, most of the sales of “Music Essay” are categorized as “Book”, so most of the sales aren’t reflected on music chart.
By: Lee on April 28, 2011
at 8:14 pm
Congratulations boys!!
Always proud of you ~
thanx for the news!
By: 4868persia on April 28, 2011
at 6:24 pm
Proud of my guys!
By: bebe on April 28, 2011
at 7:03 pm
congratulation to TVXQ.
It’s response for you both’s hard work, I feel great of you two.
By: sissysaylove on April 28, 2011
at 7:14 pm
This should shut some haters’ mouths.
HoMin flopped my A$$!!!
By: Lee on April 28, 2011
at 8:15 pm
CONGRATULATIONS!! Damn, I’m so happy for them! They worked so hard, they deserve this!
By: nati184 on April 28, 2011
at 8:19 pm
Congrats homin! You guys worked hard for this album, and it shows.
By: infinity on April 28, 2011
at 9:07 pm
i hated seeing your insecurities at the beginning of the comeback, now everything has wrapped up nicely, yeah?
The fans who understand will always be with you.
By: lalovesjae on April 28, 2011
at 9:31 pm
congrat’s to Homin.you deserve to get this.i’m so proud with them for the hard work.FIGHTING no matter what happend ^____________________^
By: helen on April 28, 2011
at 9:34 pm
Oh yeah baby!!!!!!
I want all five of my boys to succeed.
They all deserve it.
By: tvxqfangirl85 on April 29, 2011
at 12:26 am
^^ proud of HoMin~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But of course, Gods of the East should dominate the charts ^.~
DBSK-5 fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
By: fallingpetals6 on April 29, 2011
at 2:17 am
SO proud of them <3
By: ohhho on April 29, 2011
at 7:35 am
sales resulting from sm mass buying back to mark the chart lol
By: ann on April 29, 2011
at 8:00 am
unimaginative troll tssk
By: humhum on April 29, 2011
at 9:40 am
you are an anti right??
don’t bother to comment here please..
By: nobita on April 29, 2011
at 12:26 pm
i agree!!
sm panic buying mode LOL
i love homin though =.=
By: haha on April 29, 2011
at 7:18 pm
All the boys (5) did well so far. Wish some are ppls are mature enough to congratulate Homin for their hard work. A wonderful 4 months promotion and it shows. i guess only “true” TVXQ fans will be happy (w/out bashing) for all five no matter what paths/endeavors that choose.
Let’s drop all the hatred, bashing, and saddness. There’s still 2 more quarters for 2011, let’s join cooperative in supporting the boys to a happier year-end together!
Once again congratulations Homin! ^__^
TVXQ & JYJ Fighting! Let’s see all 5 on stage at year end awards!! *crossing fingers*
By: Chris on April 29, 2011
at 8:19 am
PROUD OF HOMIN!
By: xJojox on April 29, 2011
at 9:13 pm
Congratz!!! And thanks for the fans who supported them as well!! ^^
By: cheeyanne on May 1, 2011
at 12:43 am
Yunho. Changmin, congrats.. GOOD JOB..
They did it!
By: DSJ on May 1, 2011
at 8:38 pm