Monday, May 28, 2012

Super Junior Is Currently Undergoing Production For The Sixth Album

News about Super Junior's sixth album was finally answered. They certainly will release the sixth album of the year.

Leeteuk stated himself this time encore concert 'Super Show 4' in Seoul, Sunday (27/05/2012). He promised to release an album before he was drafted into the army.
  
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"Our sixth album will be released before I joined the military service," Leeteuk said AllKPop reported on Monday (5/28/2012).
  
This was later confirmed by the agency SM Entertainment Super Junior (SME). They stated Super Junior is currently undergoing production for the sixth album.
  
"It's true that Super Junior is working on their sixth album," spokesman said SME in Osen.
  
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By selling more than 54,331 copies of its new single “Opera” on the day of its release, Super Junior came in third place on the daily Oricon chart in Japan on Wednesday. The next day, an additional 15,608 copies of the album were sold, helping the band maintain the same position.
  
The new album contains three tracks and is available in three different versions: CD+DVD, CD limited edition and CD only. Each limited edition album comes with a puzzle piece featuring one of the nine Super Junior members.
  
On May 27th, during Super Junior ‘Super Show 4‘ in Seoul Olympic Park Stadium, Leeteuk went on stage and surprisingly revealed, “Our sixth album will be released before I go to serve my military service“.
  
SM Entertainment confirmed through a phone conversation with Osen, “It is true that Super Junior is currently working on their sixth album“.
  
Super Junior released their fifth album ‘Mr. Simple‘ in August 2011, which garnered much love both domestically and internationally, therefore many fans are highly anticipating Super Junior’s sixth album.
  
Meanwhile, Super Junior held their ‘Super Show 4′ encore stages in Seoul Olympic Park Stadium on May 26th and May 27th. Super Junior who has toured 10 cities and performed 24 times for ‘Super Show 4′ to a total of 400,000 audience members.
  
And Japan isn’t the only foreign nation where the boys are topping the charts.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Super Junior Live World Tour 2012 Kicked Off In LA

SMTOWN returned back to LA after their last successful show in 2010, the concert was held last night with 12,000 fans at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
  
'SMTOWN Live World Tour 2012' kicked off in LA, Honda Center was jam packed with ardent K-Pop fans from all over the states ranging from San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle even from the Midwest Chicago, Denver, Texas, even from the East Coast as far as New York.

Super Junior performed 3 of their hit songs ‘Superman,’ ‘Mr. Simple’ and ‘Sorry Sorry’ the boys had the whole crowd of 25,000 fans mesmerized. Super Junior received the loudest response from the crowd. The boys seemed especially popular with Chinese Americans and international students.
  
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A group that consists of 9 members is a rare sight almost nowhere to be seen even around the world. Super Junior’s powerful performance with loud sound and beats, and great choreography seemed to be recognized as one of the most memorable performance of the show.
  
Each member of Super Junior took turns introducing themselves however it was sad for the fans and members for Siwon to be missing the show. It would have been better for Siwon to have attended the performance that many fans have stated to be the most memorable.
  
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This one performance is meaningful than merely appearing for 15 minutes but that it was held at Google headquarters in front of many non-Koreans as well as being broadcasted worldwide.
  
Honda Center opened the venue door from 6PM PDT the seats were filled up 5 minutes before the concert, which began at 7PM PDT. Fans full of energy were seen cheering even 30 minutes before the concert began as there was a SM artist’s video playing in the large screen before beginning of the show.   
Some travelers at the airport were very curious to find out why crowds of people have gathered, to which fans replied back that popular K-Pop artists are coming to LA and some fans even were singing K-pop songs for travelers passing by.
  
As the artist’s arrival was left with 2 hours, fans formed a long line in front of arrival gate. SM representatives requested the fans to keep order for everyone’s safety.
  
Fans were seen lingering at the airport even though all the artists have left as K-pop fans formed a friendship amongst each other exchanging contact information as well as pictures and videos that they took.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Super Junior Successfully Concluded Their Meaningful Japanese Concert

“Tokyo Dome performance was our dream, an unforgettable performance.”

Super Junior successfully concluded their meaningful Japanese concert. Super Junior performed at Tokyo Dome for two nights from May 12-13 part of their world tour ‘Super Show 4’ along with 110,000 fans filling up the entire venue forming their signature sapphire blue ocean.

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Leading hallyu idol group Super Junior poured out all their energy through passionate singing and performances. The charming nine members gave a dynamic performance along with loud cheers from the audience.

The concert was filled with various performances especially performing from their fifth studio album ‘Superman’ as well as their new single ‘Opera’ that was released on May 9 in Japan. The special guest of the show was f(x) who performed ‘Pinocchio’ as well as joining Super Junior’s performance of ‘Oops!!’

Throughout the 4 hour concert over two days the group performed a total of 37 songs including their hit songs such as ‘Sorry Sorry,’ ‘Bonamana,’ ‘Mr. Simple’ as well as diverse solo performances.

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The performance at Tokyo Dome for 2 nights drew in 110,000 fans this is more meaningful as the group achieved such results despite that the group has never officially debut or gone through any form of promotion in Japan. The ticket sales surpassed even that of Lady Gaga who has recently visited Japan. Lady Gaga held 3 performances at Saitama Arena drawing in 60,000 fans. Although she held one more performance yet still there is almost twice the difference.

Super Junior will hold their encore concert in Seoul on May 26-27 at Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium.

As a group, Super Junior is known to be the best selling artist in South Korea an considered being the leading boy bad of South Korea. They have already released for more than 20 records those achieved the various degrees in success. From the time they were debuted, the members of Super Junior were divided into the small sub groups those targeting the different segment of market and this gave the inspiration to the other agency to start training their artists in the way SM Entertainment did to Super Junior. The group is currently has four members absent and left only nine active members.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Super Junior Made History Anew By Topping A Music Chart In Taiwan For 100 Consecutive Weeks


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Korean boy band Super Junior made history anew by topping a music chart in Taiwan for 100 consecutive weeks, a spot they’ve been holding on to since 2010.

The boys' two albums, "Mr. Simple" and "Bonamana," have topped the chart on Taiwan's KKBOX, which bills itself as the "world's largest Chinese online music service."

"Mr. Simple," Super Junior's fifth studio album, has grabbed the No. 1 spot on KKBOX's Korean album chart for 37 consecutive weeks since August 2011.

Prior to this, "Bonamana," the title track of the boy band's fourth studio album, topped KKBOX for 63 consecutive weeks from June 2010 to August 2011.

"We are very honored and grateful for being at No.1 for 100 weeks," Super Junior said.

For their feat, Super Junior was awarded as the Korean Singer of the Year in the KKBOX Digital Music Award held last January.

"Mr. Simple" is Super Junior's bestselling album of all time, with 500,000 copies sold since its release last August 2011. The album won the disk daesang award at the 26th Golden Disk Awards and 21st Seoul Music Awards. It also became No. 1 in the Philippines.

On the other hand, "Bonamana," released in May 2010, sold about 300,000 copies.

In the latest Korean album ranking on KKBOX, Super Junior is No. 1, followed by Big Bang's "Alive," KARA's "Hits," Big Bang "4.5 Special Edition,"  FT Island's "Grown Up," Girls Generation's "The Boys," Hyuna and Hyunseung's "Trouble Maker," 2NE1's "2nd Mini Album," Girls Generation's "Run Devil Run," and miss A's "Touch."

Last April 27 to 29, Super Junior held their "Super Show 4" world tour in Jakarta, Indonesia, attracting about 25,000 fans.

This was the boy band's first solo concert in Indonesia, which also featured new boy band EXO-M as special guest.

Super Junior will be holding their "Super Show 4" concert in Tokyo, Japan on May 12 and 13 followed by encore concerts in Seoul on May 26 and 27.

Popular idol group Super Junior known as the leading hallyu wave artist achieved an amazing record of being ranked in 1st place on the Taiwanese music chart for 100 consecutive weeks.

Super Junior’s 5th studio album title track ‘Mr. Simple’ has recorded an amazing feat of maintaining #1 for 37 consecutive weeks on Taiwan’s largest music site KKBOX’s Korea TOP 100 chart.

Prior to this Super Junior has ranked #1 with their 4th album title track ‘BONAMANA’ for 63 weeks since June of 2010, marking the longest record in the history of KKBOX’s charts. Now continuing the dominance is the ‘Mr. Simple’ taking over the first spot with a total of 100 consecutive weeks.

Super Junior has set a new record by being number one on a music chart in Taiwan for 100 weeks in total. The title song "Mr. Simple," from their fifth album, has been on the TOP 100 chart of the popular online music site, "KKBOX." On April 29, the chart for the fourth week of April was revealed and it showed that Super Junior was at number one once again. They have been number one for 37 weeks consecutively.

Super Junior shared, “We are happy and grateful to be ranked #1 for 100 consecutive weeks. This is an
amazing record even when we think about it. We want to thank all of our fans truly once again. We will be Super Junior that works even more diligently.”

Super Junior is currently successfully continuing on their world tour ‘Super Show 4,’ their next stop is a solo concert in Tokyo Dome with an expected audience of 100,000 fans on May 12-13.

Additionally, Super Junior claimed the number one spot for 63 weeks consecutively, from the first week of June 2010 to the second week of August 2011. This was for the title song, "BONAMANA," from their fourth album. First, they set a record by being the first to be number one for the longest time on "KKBOX" chart. Then, they set a new record by passing along the number one spot to their other song, "Mr. Simple," which resulted in Super Junior being number one for 100 weeks.

Super Junior expressed their feelings by saying, "Number one for 100 weeks consecutively. We are happy and honored. Even we believe that it is a surprising record. We once again want to thank our fans. We will become a harder working Super Junior."

Currently, Super Junior is successfully on their world tour, "Super Show 4." They will continue their world tour in front of over 100,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on May 12 and May 13.