Just let it rain in the Girls' Generation ♥ 11th thread!

[everlastingRAINBOW]

Just watched Genie in 3D. My mind has been blown

[Pow!]

Soshi cuts from today Music Japan,
Talk session:

As usual, Sooyoung is talking about food. Sooyoung + food = love


Run Devil Run:

hm at first I thought they're fully lipsyncing, but after listening to Tae, Jess, and Seohyun's ad libs and Hyo's parts, it seems that the bg vocals were, as usual, too loud. And I heard some doubled voice here and there. Or they're doing it on purpose for some members, idk.

I'm loving the outfit and the hairstyles though. I love Seohyun's hairstyle. Taeyeon seems to be liking that Samurai hairstyle these days

[lollipop sophie]

snsd just reached 308,174
awesome!

[y_nathz]

^^ thanks for posting! Sooyoung + food = love +1, shikshin!

300K for the album ?? GREAT !!

[AyuGAME]

i wonder if there is another Girls Generation live performance? or this is the last one during their 1st japan album promotion?

[love in music]

congrats to them for passing 300k! they deserve it!
the RDR performance was okay but it looks like they just took the same outfits they wore in some RDR performances in 2010 out of a dusty closet to wear for that new performance. some of the outfits are all wrinkled etc and Yuri's is baggy on her from her weight loss. cheapness from their company as per usual

[Aspen]

^Well, it's somehow understandable since they can't buy new outfits for all of the girls every time they promote. It's more effective to use the money for other things (maybe that's why their album songs are much better than usually xD).

+ for passing 300k. Somehow I'm glad that they've already recycled nearly all of their hit singles except Oh, since that means we'll get only (or maybe nearly only) new songs in future. I like the album, but since I enjoy the remade content more in Korean, it's rather tiring to listen to the whole album.

[love in music]

^I'm pretty sure it's just them being cheap. SNSD makes them enough money for them to at least buy Yuri fitted outfits for her new body, but they won't even do that.

[zellyx]

I'm not a new SNSD fan, but I only have their single songs and the Japanese album. Am I missing out on any really good album tracks from them? I realized I might be since I think the Japanese album tracks are SO good.

[love in music]

^They do have some gems from their album/mini album tracks but I think with this Japanese album it's their first album where they have all of their album tracks be extremely strong. Their last full Korean album had a lot of filler tracks imo and their first one had a few as well. Their ballads are probably the strongest though. From their album/mini album tracks I'd recommend these if you haven't heard them:

Spoiler:

[terra]

^^ Mistake live in KJE Chocolate with real instruments was awesome

[AyUmIXx]

OMGNess i'm so happy for the 1st japanese album to surpass 300K!!
congrats my girlsssss!!!

[lollipop sophie]

total 322,440
#2 with 90,887 sold this week

[AyUta]

I didn't like their korean material much, but this Japanese album is simply amazing

[adantatu2]

^^+1, i only like their promotional tracks of their korean albums
but with this japanese album, i love every track

[lollipop sophie]

少女时代

1st Album GIRLS'GENERATION 11/06/01
*1week 231,553
*2week *94,105 (Total:325,658)

3rd Single MR.TAXI/ Run Devil Run 11/04/27
*7week **3,605 (Total:153,327)

2nd Single Gee 10/10/20
33week **、824 (Total:200,392)

少女时代到来～方日记念盘～New Beginning of Girls'Generation
44week *2,166 (Total:138,302)

[hearted]

^WOAAHHHHH!!!!! their japanese company must be so happy with them

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by lollipop sophie

少女时代

1st Album GIRLS'GENERATION 11/06/01
*1week 231,553
*2week *94,105 (Total:325,658)

3rd Single MR.TAXI/ Run Devil Run 11/04/27
*7week **3,605 (Total:153,327)

2nd Single Gee 10/10/20
33week **、824 (Total:200,392)

少女时代到来～方日记念盘～New Beginning of Girls'Generation
44week *2,166 (Total:138,302)

Does anyone have their Korean singles and albums sales stats? It would be interesting to compare the two in terms of sales.

[4minute Girl]

1st single Into the New World: 100,000

1st album Girls' Generation: 150,000

1st album repackage Baby Baby: 108,000

1st mini album Gee: 200,000

2nd mini album Genie: 200,000

2nd album Oh: 205,000

2nd album repackage Run Devil Run: 149,000

3rd mini album Hoot: 169,637

[Pow!]

^^Well it is interesting but I think it'd be kind of unfair to compare sales in Japan and Korea, because the expected sales rate from the two countries are very different. Tbh, singers in Korea doesn't sell much anymore, in terms of physical album sales (especially) and digital sales. Music in Korea is very very discounted to the point where singers can't even provide their living from their music releases profits. Korean music industry used to have its glory when a singer selling hundred thousands of cds is a usual thing, but in the past decade the industry had been deteriorating, with the improvement of technology and all.

Besides, sales counting system in Korea is pretty curious, since there are some charts that count album sales, unlike Japan that only has Oricon chart that'd count all of the sales from every store. From what I know, Hanteo only counts sales from music stores, while Gaon covered sales from like supermarket sales too (like if you ever buy cd in Korean version of Wallmart lol). So if you ever seen any differences of sales between this or that chart it's because their system are a tiny bit different. One artist may have topped Hanteo chart, but it doesn't really mean that they sold more cd (in the whole nation) than the runner up in the chart, because maybe the runner up tops the other chart, lol.

These days, idols are like the only kind who can sells many physical albums, but even if I said it's many, it's very different compare to sales in Japan, because in Korea selling 10k of physical album is already counted as good sales since people really doesn't buy cd there anymore, and because of that there are not much record shops in Korea. Well people still buy music digitally, but the prices are so low compared to digital music price in other countries. That's why idols do many things aside from performing to gain income.

To be quite frank, it was only male idols that could have sales as much as 100k (because of the huge number of fans), but Soshi has break the record and be the first girl group that always pass 100k mark with their albums (ITNW single only sold like 40k before but it's already an amazing achievement really). And they got the Golden Disk Award Disk Daesang for Oh!, which is an award solely based on physical album sales, and break another record being the first girl group to get that award. And if someone are arguing about this with Hanteo number, well as I said before, maybe they didn’t see the other charts because for Oh! case, they have huge sales from department stores too, which indicate that public (like casual music listeners, ordinary family members, etc) are buying the album too, not only fans.
These days 2NE1 is going strong and their sales are very good too. Maybe it's even safe to say that only Soshi and 2NE1 could sell that much album for female singers, since BoA had been MIA for too long :/


I agree with all of the songs that love in music recommended. I love listening to their ballads and their unique songs like Wake Up and Destiny.
Random recommendation:

Spoiler:

Ah for Dear.Mom, I especially LOVE this performance (+ it has subs too, adding the amount of sadness by understanding the lyrics, lol).

There are childhood pictures of the girls and they looked very cute. Taeyeon cried a little, and I'm concerned about Tiffany because of the song itself and she wore a cast on her leg here because of an injury.

Gee Jazz+Rock version. One of their best song remix performance. Though yeah Rock Gee sounds weird =_=;;


Baby Baby. Yes this is a title song too lol but I love this song so much and even if the mv is just video compilation, it's really cute.