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Originally posted by nintendude666
Is this the biggest debut of the year? I know GG only made a third of this figure.
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The fact that you know SNSD first week sales of IGAB yet haven't observed the mess that Gaon has made. SMH, let me educate you.
Here is the list of total download for the top-100 songs each week for the first 26 weeks of 2013:
5,182,485
6,016,661
5,556,093
5,548,432
5,412,629
5,663,981
4,360,925
5,492,163
5,087,701
5,389,979
5,206,607
5,626,556
5,060,580
5,916,817
6,955,402
6,072,666
6,116,412
6,295,399
6,302,701
5,357,319
5,142,167
5,354,509
5,693,642
5,692,981
16,022,927
19,257,538
The next two weeks following this have equally strange numbers. Gaon has mucked something up and are now counting digital downloads differently. That is why 2NE1 managed to get such a high number. I would guess that 2NE1 would have sold 300k+ with the previous way of counting songs and would have high first week sales regardless.
Basically, Gaon has managed to count sales in such a way now that there has been a 350% increase in sales with no explanation (Genie sales started being counted in April I believe so it isn't that). Therefore, 2NE1 (and every other song charting in the last 3-4 weeks have experienced massive inflation with no explanation), the same way IGAB sold 1.4million this year and went up to 6.8million in the half year sales chart.
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