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Snow Man album surpass the 800k copies, 809k copies total

Oricon

Second day sales: 134,897

Total sales first two days: 755,015

Quote from byakuyav

I wonder if they will be able to surpass BTS? I think they have a big chance.

maybe, BTS album has sold 967k, Oricon ends roughly the second week of December. We will have to see how much Snow Man sells the first week, BTS sold 571k on the first day, and 782k the first week.

Kyosuke Himuro feat. Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)

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I agree most non Japanese fans that follow those two groups are indeed KPOP fans but the fans in Japan at least in NiziU's case are not and I've shown you why in the past. NiziU captured the heart of Japan GP and you know it. There has been evidence after evidence, polls after polls. I realize you don't want to admit it but that doesn't change what actually happened with them. It wasn't because they were great, it wasn't because of Twice. It was a huge combination of things that Japanese citizens themselves have talked about time after time. I think it's time you stop gatekeeping, and that is what you are doing, as it has been proven you are wrong. I admit I don't know enough about JO1. I'm not a boy group stan so I can't comment on that. I can comment about NiziU and tell you again you are completely wrong.

I was talking about foreign fans, NiziU debut song was a hit, I don't deny that

Now we have to wait for his debut album, I have no idea how many versions he will have, but his debut single (cd) had like 12 versions (that's a lot)

Quote from GoGoYoungeun

Yeah niziu is one of the very few ones for NOW. Don’t know if you realized it yet, but many of the top Korean companies already made Japanese subsidiaries. They’re all trying to debut localized Japanese groups following the Korean idol model (promotion, image, training, and etc.) this and next year so it’s only a matter of time before those acts get on a similar popularity level to that of niziu, especially if niziu isn’t consistent with putting out content for fans which they’re not lol. 8/10 a hybe Japanese gg or bg depending on the concept will be very anticipated and will sell like hot cakes due to simply being affiliated with bts lmao

Obviously, JE and the 48/46 groups haven’t taken this route. I have noticed that JE groups are trying to make themselves more appealing to international fans by doing more rap/hip hop concepts which doesn’t even sell well in Japan lol When I meant becoming koreanized, I was referring specifically to certain idol groups and not soloists.

mmm I have read the Japanese say that they are already a little bored with the reality shows of idols and similar things, for example in the case of INI i have seen a lot of people say sarcastically "oh great, other Koreans".

About JE, the groups experiment with sound, there are cases of success and cases of failure, of course, it depends on what we understand by failure xd

Quote from GoGoYoungeun

Kpop is the trendy asian music among foreigners so of course they’re going to latch onto korean affiliated jpop groups. Honestly,

it’s probably one of the very few ways jpop is going to get any attention among kpop fans and non fans. Just the reality of things. Don’t adapt and you get left behind so now they’re trying to do a 180 in promotion tactics and become koreanized in the shortest time span possible which isn’t how things work. It took the Korean music industry about two decades to get where it is now internationally.

"become koreanized in the shortest time span possible", that's a lie, NiziU is the only really popular group that follows this trend, because JO1 is quite unknown, for example no JE group has "koreanized", neither are groups 46 / 48, and acts like YOASOBI or Kenshi are post vocaloid (is there something more Japanese than vocaloid?)

Most JO1 or NiziU fans are kpop fans, few of them know real J-pop artists

According to ORICON Snow Man debut album, "SnowMania S1" sold 620,118 copies in the first day with the regular three versions.

With this the album became the best first day sales of the year for any release, surpassing their own single "Grandeur", wich sold 602,279 in the first day.

Congrats to Snow Man, and it's only the first day.

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Arashi’s Masaki Aiba and Sho Sakurai Announce Marriages

Masaki Aiba and Sho Sakurai of Arashi announced their marriages today. The two made their announcements through the official Johnny & Associates site.

When announcing his marriage, Masaki said he will continue to work hard in the future and that he looks forward to the continued guidance and support of the public.

Sho hopes that the public will continue to support him in his marriage. He too said that he will continue to work hard in the future.

No word on who Masaki and Sho’s new wives are.

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Arashi’s Masaki Aiba and Sho Sakurai Announce Marriages | ARAMA! JAPAN

Masaki Aiba and Sho Sakurai of Arashi announced their marriages today. The two made their announcements through the official Johnny & Associates site. When…

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many Japanese don't even know that they are Japanese

Quote from illumiseven

did u have a survey with army or is it your mind made assumption

look at the scandal they made for a simple words, a mature person does not do that, a mature person simply do not pay attention, instead army, again making a fool of themselves, if they are not 12 year old girls they literally behave like an xd

15 years old?, The guy was really generous, most are 12 years old

They are produce groups, they're basically kpop in japanese, many Japanese don't even consider them J-pop xd, I remember when in Girlschannel the Japanese people said about INI "oh, another Koreans"

Today Johnny's Entertainment announced that Kansai group, Naniwa Danshi, has exceeded 200k official members in their fanclub in just one month.

Is the group that faster reaches this.

Previously, the group had smashed the King & Prince record, getting over 100k members on the first day alone.

Naniwa debut single will release the next november 12th.

KARA had the biggest peak in the history of k-pop in Japan, no group equals KARA peak, not TWICE, not Shoujo Jidae, not BTS, not SVT, not THSK, etc.

New MV of Sakurazaka46