Friday, October 7, 2011

[News]September's Best Selling Albums, KARA #1

Girl group KARA is finally number one on domestic soil.


The numbers for the girls' third album "STEP" are out, according to GAON Charts.


After having been released on September 6th, STEP sold 97,667 copies during the month of September, making them the number one album for the month.


The title song of the same title also achieved great results. "STEP" placed number two for September's Combined Digital Chart and number one on the September Downloads Chart with 1,719,950 downloads.

Compared to other girl groups, KARA was the second girl group to hit number one on the monthly album chart, following 2NE1. Also, they're the first girl artist or group to sell over 90,000 hard copy albums, In fact, the numbers are continuing to rise with the 100,000 mark right around the corner.


GAON Charts calculates album sales, buy subtracting the amount of albums left in storage of the music production companies from the total albums initially produced.

Source: KBS 

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