Weekly International Album Chart (Japan) - 28 February 2010
- Super Junior / Super Junior Japan Limited Edition - Super Show3-
- PiNK / Greatest Hits
- V.A. / Grammy Nominees 2011
- Rihanna / Loud
- Lady Antebellum / Need You Now
- Charice / Charice
- Bruno Mars / Doo-Wops ＆ Hooligans
- Lady Gaga / The Monster
- Taylor Swift /Speak Now
- Nick Carter / I'm Taking Off
Super Junior is a Korean idol group (again!), who I didn't know until I checked this week's album chart. Over 12,000 copies of their lates album were sold for its first chart week. Is this figure great or not? If you were told that they played three sold-out Yokohama Arena shows in this month and will play at a baseball stadium Tokyo Dome in April for 2 days in row, you will feel 12,000 copies sold is actually under expectation.
Modern-look Yokohama Arena can accommodate 17,000 people and the biggest in-door concert venue Tokyo Dome can 55,000 people for a concert. I don't know if both Tokyo Dome shows are already sold out. However, if so, it means more than 160,000 people in total go to see the artist. 160,000 is a far big number compared to 12,000 because it means literally only less than 1/10 of the concert goers buy the album. You have to bear in mind that there are the certain number of fans who go to more than one concert of them in a year. There's however also a number of people who can't go to see the Super Junior play live.
What would that mean? Fans don't buy their favourite group's recordings, although they go to their shows? Do they illegally download them? I think we'll see what's happening in K-Pop movement in Japan soon.
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