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Dong Bang Shin Ki ranked #3 on Oricon annual rankings with over 90.3KRW worth of album singles sold in 2009

Posted on December 20, 2009 by sookyeong

Popular group Dong Bang Shin Ki is the #3 top selling artistes in Japan amongst the others domestic artistes there.

According to Oricon on 18th December, Dong Bang Shin Ki is ranked #3 after Arashi and EXILE for ‘2009 Oricon Annual Ranking’ in terms of singles, albums and DVD sales. At #4 and #5 are rock group B’z and The Beatles.

Arashi has sold over 14.46billion yen worth of singles and albums, while EXILE has sold over 12.93 billion yen worth in year 2009. At #3, Dong Bang Shin Ki has sold over 6.89 billion yen (or in KRW 90.3billion) worth of album and singles in the past 1 year.

What also caught the attention of many is that Oricon has introduced the group as “Dong Bang Shin Ki, which continues to grow and leap even the more in 2009… All their items were well received, and hence they are one group which is accepted greatly by fans this year.”

S:Yonhap

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11 Responses

  1. eh8691, on January 11, 2010 at 6:30 pm said:

    congratulation, oppa hwaiting. always keep the faith

  2. KBites Kpop Report 2009 « LET'S PLAY : 2NE1, on December 28, 2009 at 6:18 am said:

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  4. Ciara, on December 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm said:

    this is why i dont get why that 3 wanna sue the company
    1 percent out of all these is a huge sum
    they open businesses , drive huge cars in korea which i cant see why
    i only detect greediness out of these lawsuit

    • ainto87, on December 28, 2009 at 9:42 pm said:

      they are fighting for their rights!!
      and also for the 13 years slave contract~~
      that’s y.. they worked really hard all these years and they deserves it!! sorry i’m a BIG fan of tvxq.. ^__^

  5. OMGWTFBBQ, on December 20, 2009 at 11:55 am said:

    I think thats amazing… I thought they would not surpass KAT-TUN and all those JE boys.

  6. franklin, on December 20, 2009 at 9:18 am said:

    ^ 70 MILLIONS $$$ ???
    and it’s crazy that they’re #3 only after EXILE and arashi…
    that’s dbsk for you, people O_O
    btw the beatles !!!

  7. 121, on December 20, 2009 at 2:15 am said:

    Im so happy and proud of DBSK they are group who made it big in Japan in the hard way when they first debuted in Japan they were nobody and look at them now Im so happy ^_^ btw in USD is 76.9 million no wonder why Avex is not planning to stop DBSK activities in Japan

  8. starzz24, on December 20, 2009 at 1:31 am said:

    DBSK, not THSK.. nice.
    hope the boys just stay tgt, either leave SM or stay but regardless be united and survive through this!
    too talented to just break up like that!

  9. Mindy, on December 20, 2009 at 1:24 am said:

    congrats<3

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