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Originally posted by Pikachu
and the quote explaining it has already mentioned that they know that SM is the distributor, and that they had to remove some of the Oricon sales to deflate the reported total sales for the other SNSD albums, but cited The Boys as an outlier. what i'm saying is it the bulk of the 140k sales was in November, if Gaon counted most of this 140k why was the figure on the Gaon November Chart only 65k? Mind you, fans were staggering sales back then to win shows against Wonder Girls and IU, which means they were still selling a lot in Korea itself. Their first Japanese album was a fluke obviously since the others have not had such longevity after the first one.
it is possible that SM distributed the import album separately from the actual Korean edition, which could be why Gaon mistakenly did not account for it like it did for later releases.
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If your only is defense is the 140K numbers and Oricon and the fact that Gaon only counted 65K, then your are wrong. I managed to dig up Oricon sales from 2011, and the sales were accumulated overtime and not frontload. (This is actually quite the norm for Korean releases in Japan). And sales for The Boys on Oricon is actually 107K
October: 6,494
November: 55,760
December (1st week): 4,381
But I have to say, I was wrong with December 2011 sales, the reason for high sales during December was because SM released a repackaged version, The Boys (Mr. Taxi version) hence the surge in sales. I hope these clear things up.
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Originally posted by Cathryn Hudson
so The Boys did pass 600K sales then  Legends ONLY |
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