Five member group TVXQ has ranked first for annual online sales in a popular Japanese album market.

On the 30th, according to HMV, Japan's biggest album store, who gathered the accumulative of all the online sales of singers performing in Japan from January first till November 23rd, TVXQ's fourth album 'Secret Code' which was released in March ranked first.

They are drawing attention for this for beating popular Japanese singers such as Arashi and Perfume.

HMV's side stated, "They included hit songs such as 'Doushite', 'Beautiful You' and 'Spell-MIROTIC' so the each song in the album was of high quality," and "It is a soulful album that perfectly showcases TVXQ's talents."