Response towards KARA's announcement of a new single album to be released in November is alarmingly high.
Last August when their debut single ‘Mister’ was released, it was up at #5 on Oricon Weekly chart, Korea’s Girl group that made a big hit in Japan, KARA will release two albums in a row: second single ‘Jumping’ in Japan on 10th of November and at the end of November will release album ‘Girls Talk’.
There's a month left for the album to be released, but people have been taking a lot of interests in it. Jumping has been used as main theme song for FujiTV’s popular information and news program. Moreover, Japanese music programs have already looked into Kara’s Jumping Jacket cover photos and showed great interests.
On aOctober 15th, according to report from Japan’s news source,a survey was conducted for average 17-year-old female 20,000 people, KARA was chosen as Korean #1 artist. On the same day KARA appeared on Japan’s most prestigious music program AsahiTV’s Music Station and received a lot of interests.
It has not been two months since their debut, they can be called newcomers, but they have already went on a lot of interviews, even fans from Japan have been spreading about ‘Kara’s Special’. Music Station is a music program in Japan which usually only top stars can appear but KARA’s debut single ‘Mister’ was able to appear in this program. This just demonstrates how much interests and popular KARA is in Japan.
Moreover, after the broadcast of Music Station, Mister’s mobile music chart sky-rocketed, On October 16th, Kara’s Mister re-entered the Mobile music chart at #3 which was amazing. In addition, on Japan’s portal site Yahoo, the search volume about KARA also increased exponentially.
Music Station is such an influential program, but compared to other artists that appeared on the program, KARA is obviously taking it by storm, as local music reps explained.
An official said,”It is very unusual to receive such hot attention a month before album release”. “There‘s also been a lot of TV appearance requests. Kara is planning to promote ‘Jumping’ at the end of October onwards, including TV appearances and all related promotional activities.
KARA’s 100% Korean language Best Album which was released end of September ranked #2 on Oricon Weekly chart which makes KARA as the best rookie artist debut. Meanwhile, Kara’s new single and album which will be released in November.
Translated by aank1 @karaholic.com
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Source: Daum
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