Oricon Japan has announced the album sales of kpop groups in Japan. On the 16th of February, Oricon Japan revealed the information on how much album sales popular groups from Korea have made over the past year.

SNSD and KARA have made the most album sales recorded and have been the forefront of Kpop in Japan last year. SNSD made a total of 29 billion Yen with their Japanese album “Girls Generations” and KARA followed with 20 billion yen album sales with their Japanese album “Super Girl”.

Last year was a good year for Korean groups in Japan as they experienced an increase in album sales compared to 2009. From 3.0% they rose to 6.0% in 2010 and rose to 7.8% increase in sales in 2011. The top sellers comes from SM-JYP-YG Entertainment the big 3 agencies and other groups such as T-ara, Supernova and U-kiss that are not from the big 3 also made huge success in Japan.

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