��Girls�� Generation��s ��Best Album�� Tops Japanese Music Chart

Korean girl group ��Girl��s Generation (Taeyeon, Tiffany, Jessica, Hyoyeon, Sunny, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, Seohyun)�� topped the daily and weekly Oricon Album Chart with its newly released best album.

According to the Oricon Chart on July 31th, [THE BEST], the new best album of “Girls�� Generation” which was released in Japan on July 23th,was ranked top on the Oricon daily chart on July 29th. The Oricon Chart is the most authoritative music industry standard albums popularity chart in Japan.

The album also remained at the top of the Oricon Weekly Album Chart between July 21th and July 27th.A total of 74,921 copies were sold during this period.

[THE BEST]includes the Japanese version of many hit songs including [Oh!], [Hoot] and [Mr.Mr.], which was released in 2014.

The group recently ended the third tour concert in Japan in great success. The tour concert was held 17 times in seven Japanese cities anddrew over more than 200,000 audiences.

Meanwhile, boy group ��NU��EST (JR, Aron, Baekho, Minhyun,Ren, Jason)�� was ranked 7th on the Oricon Daily Album Chart with its new Japanese album [NU��EST Best in Korea].

Reporter: Gil Hye-sung
Translator: Kim Tae-yeon

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