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JCL did better in first week sales because the profit from the sales was donated to japan charity, but up until now, Go Go Summer has better sales than JCL. 19 *,225,999 ***,985 GO GO サマー！ / KARA 11/06/29 (=) 20 *,223,733 ***,492 ジェットコースターラブ / KARA 11/04/06 (=) I can't blame the public for not liking the songs, because it's all depend by their preference by the way.

I didn't follow Oricon and Jpop groups much, but if the weekly sales are around 80K-120K it is normal for established jpop group right? For example last week chart, Laruku which I knew is a senior jpop group, sold around 80K+. If it's correct, so there is insufficient evidence to state that Kara's popularity is falling, and I'm sure they did well for this single. The problem now, our mind has been set that their release must be sold more than 100K, or else japanese don't give interest to them now, which is proven incorrect at all. 80K is good enough for them imo.

@kimngocnguyen06 It make sense. With All About Beauty and STEP (which the price is suddenly become so high due to the import version), most of J Kamilia which do not have their own source of income (which mean still in school) have a difficulty in buying those releases at once. Compared than previous release, Kara didn't have any additional released merchandise, maybe Kara DVD clip, but in this case it had a time distant(about a month?) between release of JCL. So it didn't affect much of JCL sales. Thus, imo the main reason is the release date itself.

^they have guerrilla showcase today. The one that stopped by the japanese police.

^we will know everything when the time has come. btw, here's preview of Whisper--> http://radenoactive.tumblr.com/post/11646497765/romantica89-kara-whisper-full-ver-kara-never IT'S AMAZING AND SO CATCHY. I REALLY WANT THEM TO PERFORM THIS SONG PLEASE. It's a waste lol the put it in b-side.

Honestly, I don't think play-asia is a big name in online shopping site like yesasia or cdjapan. I never heard the name until recently the rumour come out. Plus, usually, the pre-order will be opened in Japanese online shopping site first if the album is being confirmed.

The article was made on totally unreliable sources, there is no way I'll believe it, unless there is official statement made by UMJ and DSP itself. If it's really true, why I didn't see any hypes from K.Kamilia and J.Kamilia themselves? I doubt they will release any release in the end of year, and I don't want it either. It will affected their yearly chart ranking, and also winter magic sales (like what happened during Jumping/GT last year)

NINKI ratings for the week of 18/10~24/10/2011 Singles: 01 211.60 NMB48 - Oh My God! 02 121.30 KARA - Winter Magic 03 91.70 BUMP OF CHICKEN - Zero 04 62.70 Acid Black Cherry - Shangrila 05 30.10 Kuraki Mai - Your Best Friend 06 28.30 CNBLUE - In My Head 07 27.80 Sakamoto Maaya - Buddy 08 20.50 THE BAWDIES - RED ROCKET SHIP 09 17.90 Chihara Minori - TERMINATED 10 17.60 JAY'ED x JUJU - Eien wa Tada no Ichibyou Kara The NINKI ratings are the results of a POLL conducted by Oricon indicating degree of interest/degree of purchase intention in an upcoming release. Although the ratings are never a true reflection of sales, it does give a strong prediction about where the single/album will place in terms of popularity amongst the Japanese public. However, they are NOT an indication of how it will perform in terms of chart positioning and total sales for the week. Jet Coaster Love's ninki was around 85 while it sold 122k. Girl's talk ninki was 80 and it sold 107k. GO GO Summer ninki was 151 but it was sold 114k. So can't predict much how winter magic is going to sell~ May we start our prediction game? Mine- First day-60K First week 125K

Gyuri moved down.... and SNSD got big increase for this time..

Total sales for Kara's release for this year. Kara: Step: 97,667 Jumping 16,860 Revolution 13,523 Lupin 6,877 Honey 4,485 Blooming 3,868 Rock U 3,838 Pretty Girl 2,794 TOTAL: 149,912 Jumping and Revolution still going strong~ surprising..

Chance of them to receive bonsang award for this year is pretty high. Up until now, the top total sales for the 3/4 year of 2011 is listed below. 1. SUJU: Mr. Simple 318,669 2. DBSK: KYHD 230,922 3. B2st: Fact and Fiction 135,160 4. Big Bang: 4th Mini 134,835 5. Kim Hyun Joong: Breakdown 114,586 6. CN Blue: First Step 109,054 7. Kara: Step: 97,667 8. SUJU: A-Cha: 97,210 9. 2PM: Hands Up 92,932 10. Big Bang: Special Edition 87,894 11. 2NE1: 2nd Mini Album 73,941 12. F(x): Pinochio 60,665 13. DBSK: KYHD repack 55,234 14. Infinite: Over the Top 54,149 15. FT Island: Return 51,056 The only big names that will be back during the end year promotion are only SNSD and Wonder Girls, so although if their sales are rocketed, Kara still in the top 10 contenders. And Kara has the highest sales among the girl groups for this year~

So Step did better physically. Their digital score for this month (Based on Gaon aggregate) 4 week sales Kara: Step 2. 38,333,607 2. 32,241,268 4. 27,977,327 4. 22,914,003 Total: 121,466,205 ($364,398)

KARA ranking in Mixi number together with other Kpop groups. Not a big increase for the past 2 months but I'm sure the rate will be increase due to Winter Magic release~ for Daum fancafe ranking(korea),

^I'm not sure about that. From what I heard, MuCore will be their Goodbye Stage as tomorrow Inkigayo will be replaced with some sort of open concert? I dunno lol

Nope I don't think so. Instead, their physical sales surpassed Lupin physical sales. So it's mean their fanbase is still strong as physical sales is the indicator of of how big their fanbase is.

First 4 week sales for songs released in this year. (Digital)

I don't think this cafe number are relevant nowadays..

^ yeah, definitely. Looks like her diet is going on well but I hope she is taking care of her health. Probably this style is the best for her so far.