Girls' Generation ‘The Boys’ recorded sales over 400,000 copies, the first in GaOn Chart’s history for a single album

Girls’ Generation’s 3rd album ‘The Boys’ has recorded sales exceeding 400,000 copies to date.

Released on October 19th, 2011, ‘The Boys’ topped GaOn’s Annual Album Chart last year with sales of 385,348 copies. Since then till April this year, sales of 205,194 copies were recorded, bringing the tally to 410,542 copies.

A representative of GaOn Chart said, “Since GaOn started tracking album sales in 2010, Girls’ Generation is the only artist to have broken the 400,000 copies mark for a single album (not inclusive of repackaged album)”.

Girls’ Generation’s albums across the board are seeing the same additions in sales. ‘Oh!‘ jumped from 197,934 copies to 218,522 copies in a year, ‘Run Devil Run‘ sold 168,998 total copies, and ‘Hoot‘ recorded 180,825 copies up to last year.

As for their latest unit group, Taetiseo, “Twinkle” has hit 604,870 downloads, making them the most downloaded artist on Gaon for the week of May 2nd.


Credit: sportschosun.com ; Gaon Chart
Taken from: fanwonder.com; allkpop.com

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