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I admit I did not watch the MV teasers for fear of being disappointed, but after watching the video, I think the song is good and the video is good too (except for sitting on the toilet part).

can someone translate this http://www.todayhumor.co.kr/board/view.php?table=bestofbest&no=136476&s_no=136476&page=2

^801 copies sold last week, basically it's still charting

I hope/think they will sell enough to squeeze into the 7th spot on the yearly charts.

I was hoping that the sales would level out more but I think version A has been out of stock at a lot of places.

Hara and Jing don't get as much air time cuz they don't sing as much. Nicole gets the most cuz she sings and raps. But Hara does get alot of airtime for music shows.

The number 10 album of the year so far is B'z with 380,000. So it depends on how many weeks left count for oricon, it might be pretty close.

The week is not over yet, but I'm already hoping they sell around 100,000 next week.

preorders are what the stores order so it does not equal sales

^I think it's because Lupin did much better digitally. But I do agree that the fanbase is small. I think KARA has a lot of casual fans that may or may not like their songs and not blindly buy it just because they are fans.

Does anyone know who else is releasing that day?

^I've definitely been noticing. I'm hoping for a third week on top of the riaj digital charts. There is a very short list of artists that have accomplished that.

mister went triple platinum for ringtones http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w110420.html

Mister is number one on the recochoku full charts right now if someone want to cap it.

^ I'm pretty sure there are seperate certifications. SNSD got physical and digital golds for Gee and Genie.

^why not? I'm not saying it's guaranteed, but it got the gold certification for chaku uta 2-3 months ago and it's pretty much been in the top ten/fifteen since then. BTW Mister is the number one movie/full video for the year at recochoku. http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/yearly_movie.html

Platinum is a definite possibility. They don't actually have diamond in Japan. They just call a million sales a "million". Diamond is what the U.S. uses which is 10 million copies.

What are the chances of Mister going platinum digitally? It seems like it's been in the top ten forever.

I think what he/she means is the end of the Oricon year which is Dec 15th I think.

^ I think it will pass 100k, just probably not within this yearly chart. I feel like there should be another RIAJ certification pretty soon and it's still doing pretty well digitally.

Since Lupin was released on recochoku, is there anywhere we can listen to it? Has anyone heard it?

Thanks for the mixi numbers. I hope they get invited to Best Artist too and other year-end music shows.

Can someone update their mixi fan count? Other Jpop/kpop groups too please? Which of the Japanese year-end music shows display which demographic they're popular with? I haven't been into jpop for a long time. Other korean wave stars (ryu si won, lee jung hyun) have performed on kouhaku before so I hope they don't get too much hate if they do get invited.

I think what is causing their voice cracks is not the lack of vocal training, but I think they don't warm up their voices properly.

Lupin is actually French. "Lupang" is closer to the French pronunciation. Thanks for sharing, Jay was my fave 2pm member.